John Burton has been working in Australia and the countries of the Western Pacific region for over 40 years, including a decade in Papua New Guinea universities. He has also practised as a Native Title anthropologist, contributing to a range of successful Native Title determinations in Torres Strait and North Queensland since 2001. He is a Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society and his current position is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland.