Also refers to supervisors and educators responsible for the supervision of research students. Under non-indigenous law they are deferred to as the potential native title holders for that land or sea. The term is used here to cover all forms of traditional association between indigenous peoples and specific geographic areas, noting that the term has a formal legal interpretation in some jurisdictions. For example, the term as used here includes the secondary customary rights in an area of the indigenous peoples from neighbouring areas. The term should be understood in a more general context where used in this report.
Negative utilitarianism is the attempt to minimise the amount of misery.
An action is right if and only if it produces at least as much good for all affected by the action as any alternative action the agent could do instead. The ongoing well-being of an individual, species, ecosystem or society.