Ed Wensing is an experienced planner, policy analyst and academic. Ed has worked in government, the private sector, non-government organisations, professional associations and has engaged in teaching and research in several universities around Australia. For over 25 years, Ed has had the privilege of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities across Australia on the intersection between their rights and interests (however defined by them) and the Crown’s systems of land ownership and management, land use planning, and environmental management.