Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh is professor of politics and public policy in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. His recent publications include Negotiations in the Indigenous World: Aboriginal Peoples and the Extractive Industry in Australia and Canada (Routledge, 2016). For more than twenty-five years, he has worked with Indigenous organisations and communities in Australia, Canada and Papua New Guinea on negotiation of agreements with mining and oil and gas companies.