Human geographers deploy a broad variety of conceptual and methodological approaches and use different methods to understand the interrelationships between people, place and space. Reflections on ethical questions that arise in the process of planning and conducting research have accordingly become a key concern in scientific discourse. The principle informed consent, is a cornerstone of many in existing - though perhaps disputed - regulatory frameworks that researchers have to comply with in order to fulfil formal research requirements. Research ethics that has become institutionalised in such a way clearly helps to protect participants in research projects. It also offers guidance to researchers and forces them to reflect ethical aspects of their work. Developing Aboriginal research ethics is one outcome of long-lasting and fierce struggles for de-colonialisation and self-determination that, amongst other things, include struggles for control over community-related knowledge production.