Last year saw the biggest expansion yet of Indigenous Protected Areas. Advocates say IPAs are the ideal approach for managing ecologically important land, while reconnecting First Nations people with their country, and providing employment. 

Guest: Associate Professor BHIAMIE  WILLIAMSON, from Monash University. Chair of Country Needs People, a not for profit organisation that supports indigenous land and sea management.  A Euahlayi  man from north-west New South Wales. Producer: Ann Arnold