Many contemporary land use and natural resource management planning initiatives have embraced a values-led planning approach. At the same time, there have been increasing calls to recognise and respect culturally diverse values in public policy (European Landscape Convention and UNFPII, 2008). Although Indigenous consultation in many land use planning and natural resource management initiatives has been undertaken throughout Australia, Indigenous input (with a few exceptions) is seldom visible in the project outputs. In most planning studies at local and regional scales, there has been a significant hiatus in incorporating Indigenous landscape values.

This paper presents initial research findings confirming that it is possible to work with Indigenous communities, comprised of both traditional and non-traditional owners, to identify Indigenous landscape values of relevance in a rapidly urbanising planning region such as South East Queensland (SEQ) (Low Choy et al, 2009 & 2010). While this research is ongoing, this paper will outline the methodology adopted for Indigenous engagement thus far and that proposed for the ongoing research. Specifically, it examines the question of how should the planning and associated professions address these unique challenges of Indigenous engagement in order to incorporate their landscape values into conventional, essentially European based, planning processes, particularly those within an urban setting.