Community-led
Relevant knowledge holders determine what can be described, used or shared.
Authority stays with knowledge holders.
Living cultural practice can be visible without making protected knowledge public or transferring authority to a registry.
Material / knowledge / authority
02.5Craft & cultural practitioners
Consent governs the record.
Any record involving First Nations cultural knowledge, designs, practices or ecological knowledge must respect community authority, consent, ICIP, access conditions, attribution and restrictions. Some knowledge should not be recorded or disclosed at all.
ACA’s task is to build systems capable of honouring those decisions—not to define, claim or expose the knowledge.
Report basisMapping Australia’s Crafts Sector 2026 · Section 9; Recommendation 8.
Purpose-bound
Permission must relate to the actual record, audience and use.
Restricted where required
Public discovery is not appropriate for every cultural record.