Footnotes

[1] G Parker et. al., Review of Native Title Representative Bodies, ATSIC, Canberra, 1995.

[2] Senatore Brennan Rashid, Review of Native Title Representative Bodies, ATSIC, March 1999.

[3] B Miller, Review of Native Title Representative Body System at the Request of the Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, October 2002.

[4] PJC on Native Title, Second Interim Report for the s.206(d) Inquiry: Indigenous Land Use Agreements, September 2001, pp.95-99, 112.

[5] House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry and Resources (Mr G Prosser MP, Chair), Exploring: Australia's Future – Impediments to Increasing Investment in Minerals and Petroleum Exploration in Australia, August 2003, pp.85-99.

[6] PJC on Native Title, Effectiveness of the National Native Title Tribunal, December 2003, pp.27, 50-54.

[7] Attorney-General, 'Native Title Reform', Media Release, 7 September 2005. See also Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, 'Delivering Better Outcomes in Native Title – Update on Government's Plan for Practical Reform', Media Release, 23 November 2005.

[8] Information in this section has been derived from Submissions 1, pp.2-4 (ATSIS); 1A, pp.9-14 (OIPC); and 16, pp.3-4 (Attorney General's Department).

[9] Submissions 8, p.5 (NSWNTS); 38, p.6 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[10] Submissions 8, pp.4-8 (NSW Native Title Services); 4, pp.5-8 (QIWG); 23, pp.3-4 (NNTT).

[11] Submission 4, p.6 (QIWG); 8, p.5 (NSWNTS);

[12] Submission 15, p.3 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[13] Submission 20, p.1 (Minerals Council of Australia).

[14] Submission 23, p.3 (NNTT).

[15] Submission 15, p.14 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner). See also ATSI Social Justice Commissioner, Promoting Economic and Social Development through Native Title, June 2004.

[16] Submission 15, p.15 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[17] Submission 11, p.2 (Mr J Basten QC).

[18] Submission 12, p.6 (GLSC). See also Submissions 38, pp.12-13 (Carpentaria Land Council); 40, pp.12-13 (AIATSIS).

[19] Submission 1, p.8 (ATSIS); ABC News Online, 'Indigenous corporation loses native title body status', 23 June 2005.

[20] Under recent Ministerial changes the responsible Minister is now the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

[21] See, for example, Submissions 29, pp.10-18 (Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation); 38, pp.8-10 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[22] Submission 38, p.8 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[23] Submission 23, p.6 (NNTT).

[24] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.27 (WA Government).

[25] Submission 1A, p.2 (OIPC).

[26] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.22 (OIPC).

[27] Submission 1A, p.34 (OIPC).

[28] Submission 1A, pp.18-19 (OIPC).

[29] Submission 1A, pp.15-16 (OIPC).

[30] Submission 1A, p.16 (OIPC).

[31] Submission 38, p.12 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[32] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.62 (GLSC).

[33] Submission 21, p.2 (ILC). See also Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, pp.2-3 (ILC).

[34] Submission 21, p.3 (ILC).

[35] Submission 21, p.3 (ILC). See also Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.3 (ILC).

[36] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.5 (ILC).

[37] Submission 18, pp.3,5 (Rio Tinto).

[38] Submission 1A, p.19 (OIPC).

[39] Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, 'Delivering Better Outcomes in Native Title – Update on Government's Plan for Practical Reform', Media Release, 23 November 2005.

[40] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, pp.3-4 (OIPC).

[41] The Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Bill 2005 is intended to strengthen the legislative framework for corporations in the Indigenous corporate sector. It is therefore aligned in many respects with the Corporations Act to apply modern corporate governance standards and corporations law to Indigenous corporations.

[42] Submission 1A, p.34 (OIPC).

[43] Submission 1A, p.19 (OIPC).

[44] Submission 1A, p.16 (OIPC).

[45] Submission 1A, pp.15-16 (OIPC).

[46] Submission 21, p.3 (ILC).

[47] See, for example, Submission 38, p.3 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[48] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.8 (OIPC).

[49] Submission 38, p.12 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[50] Submission 1A, p.19 (OIPC).

[51] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.58 (NNTT).

[52] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.62 (GLSC).

[53] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.5 (OIPC).

[54] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.5 (OIPC).

[55] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.6 (OIPC).

[56] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.6 (OIPC). See also Committee Hansard 12 May 2004, pp.20-21 (ATSIS).

[57] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.4 (OIPC).

[58] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.4 (OIPC).

[59] Submission 1A, p.19 (OIPC).

[60] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.64 (NNTT).

[61] Submission 38, p.13 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[62] Submission 1A, p.21 (OIPC).

[63] Advice from OIPC, 20 December 2005.

[64] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.6 (OIPC).

[65] Submission 1A, p.25 (OIPC).

[66] Submission 1A, p.26 (OIPC).

[67] This funding is part of additional funding of $72.9 million over the next four years allocated to the native title system, including additional funding for the Federal Court and the NNTT.

[68] Submission 18, p.5 (Rio Tinto).

[69] Submission 29, p.19 (Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation). See also Submission 4, p.16 (QIWG).

[70] Submission 38, p.13 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[71] See, for example, Submissions 27, p.2 (NSW Farmers' Association); 20, p.1 (Minerals Council of Australia); 2, p.1 (WA Local Government Association).

[72] Submission 22, p.2 (WA Office of Native Title).

[73] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.3 (ILC).

[74] G Parker et.al., Review of Native Title Representative Bodies, ATSIC, Canberra, 1995, pp.73-74.

[75] Senatore Brennan Rashid, Review of Native Title Representative Bodies, ATSIC, March 1999, p.1.

[76] Submissions 15, pp.7-9 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner); 29, pp.20-25 (Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation); pp.7-8 (Rio Tinto); 40, pp.13-15 (AIATSIS).

[77] Submission 12, p.7 (GLSC). See also Committee Hansard 21 July 2004, pp.14-15 (KLC).

[78] Submission 8, p.6 (NSWNTS).

[79] Submission 20, p.1 (Minerals Council of Australia).

[80] Submission 18, p.8 (Rio Tinto).

[81] Submission 20, p.2 (Minerals Council of Australia). See also Submissions 8, pp.18-19 (NSW Native Title Services); 29, pp.25-26 (Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation).

[82] Submission 22, p.3 (WA Office of Native Title).

[83] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.18 (OIPC).

[84] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.17 (OIPC).

[85] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.8 (AMEC).

[86] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, pp.26,30 (WA Office of Native Title).

[87] Submission 23 p.5 (NNTT).

[88] Parker report, pp.73-76.

[89] Love-Rashid report, pp.72-75.

[90] Submission 15, pp.15-16 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[91] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.68 (GLSC).

[92] Submission 1A, p. 29 (OIPC).

[93] Advice from OPIC, 20 December 2005; Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.20 (OIPC).

[94] Submission 22, p.4 (WA Office of Native Title); Committee Hansard 21 July 2004, pp.3,7, 10-11 (KLC). 'Future acts' refer to proposed activities or developments that may affect native title.

[95] Committee Hansard 21 July 2004, p.4 (KLC). See also Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.74 (GLSC).

[96] Submission 6, p.2 (AMEC); Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, pp. 2,8-9 (AMEC).

[97] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.13 (AMEC).

[98] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, pp.25-26 (WA Office of Native Title).

[99] Submission 22, p.3 (WA Office of Native Title); Advice from WA Office of Native Title, 10 January 2006.

[100] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, pp.26-17 (Carpentaria Land Council); p.44 (Gurang Land Council). See also Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.62 (NNTT).

[101] Submission 7, p.5 (TSRA).

[102] Submission 15, pp.9-10 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[103] Submission 12, p.8 (GLSC). See also Submission 13, p.5 (ALRM).

[104] Submission 18, p.7 (Rio Tinto).

[105] Submission 8, pp.3,17-18 (NSWNTS). Details of the funding formula were not provided in evidence to the inquiry.

[106] Submission 1A, p.29 (OIPC).

[107] See OIPC, General Terms and Conditions for Funding Agreements Relating to Native Title, May 2005.

[108] Committee Hansard 21 July 2004, p.3 (KLC). See also Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.72 (GLSC).

[109] Submission 15, p.12 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[110] Submission 15, p.13 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[111] Parker report, pp.66-67.

[112] Submission 1A, pp.26-27 (OIPC). See also Submission 32, p.33 (NTRB Lawyer Professional Development Project); Anthropos Consulting, Capacity of Anthropologists in Native Title Practice, April 2004, p 4.

[113] Submission 32, pp. 37,197 (NTRB Lawyer Project).

[114] Submissions 1A, p.27 (OIPC); 23, p.7 (NNTT); 18, p.9 (Rio Tinto). See also Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p. 28 (WA Office of Native Title); pp.35-36,43 (Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation).

[115] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.5 (ILC).

[116] Submission 11, p.5 (Mr J Basten QC).

[117] Submission 7, p.5 (TSRA).

[118] Submission 18, p.9 (Rio Tinto). See also Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.31 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[119] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.51 (QIWG).

[120] Submission 32, pp.1-6 (NTRB Lawyer Project).

[121] Submission 32, pp.33-43 (NTRB Lawyer Project).

[122] Submission 32, pp.2-4 (NTRB Lawyer Project).

[123] Anthropos report, pp.1-2.

[124] Anthropos report, pp.4-5.

[125] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.55 (QIWG).

[126] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.61 (NNTT).

[127] Submission 1A, p.28 (OIPC).

[128] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.31 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[129] Submission 1A, p.28 (OIPC).

[130] Submission 5, p.4 (NTSV).

[131] Submission 18, p.9 (Rio Tinto); Advice from Rio Tinto, 9 January 2006.

[132] Submissions 5, pp.4-5 (NTSV); 1A, p.28 (OIPC).

[133] Advice from OIPC, 20 December 2005.

[134] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, pp.38-39 (Gurang Land Council).

[135] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.10 (OIPC).

[136] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.11 (OIPC).

[137] Submission 32, pp.3-5 (NTRB Lawyer Project).

[138] Submissions 23, pp.7-8 (NNTT); 40, pp.6-7 (AIATSIS).

[139] Anthropos Consulting, Pilot Mentoring Project for Junior NTRB Anthropologists, June 2004, pp.1-4.

[140] Submission 32, pp.3,53 (NTRB Lawyer Project).

[141] Submission 37, p.5 (WA Office of Native Title). See also Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, pp.28,43 (WA Office of Native Title/Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation).

[142] Submission 32, p.4 (NTRB Lawyer Project).

[143] Submissions 1A, pp.30-31 (OIPC); 1, pp.4-6 (ATSIS); 16, pp.4-5 (AGs Department).

[144] Submission 1A, pp.30-31 (OIPC).

[145] Submission 1A, p.31 (OIPC).

[146] Submission 38, p.14 (Carpentaria Land Council).

[147] Submission 15, p.12 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[148] Submission 1A, p.32 (OIPC).

[149] B Miller, Review of Native Title Representative Body System at the Request of the Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, October 2002, pp.30-35.

[150] Submission 1A, p.24 (OIPC).

[151] Submission 1A, pp.24-25 (OIPC).

[152] Committee Hansard 12 May 2004, p.23 (ATSIS).

[153] Submission 15, p.14 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[154] Submission 12, p.8 (GLSC).

[155] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.73 (GLSC).

[156] Submission 11, p.5 (Mr J Basten QC).

[157] Submission 11, p.5 (Mr J Basten QC).

[158] Submission 15, p.14 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[159] Submission 29, p.3 (Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation).

[160] Committee Hansard 21 July 2004, p.5 (KLC).

[161] Submission 5, p.2 (NTSV).

[162] Submission 21, p.2 (ILC).

[163] Submission 23, pp.9-11 (NNTT).

[164] Submission 18, pp.12-13 (Rio Tinto).

[165] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.11 (Mr C Budby). See also, for example, Submission 30 (Walman Yawuru Aboriginal Corporation).

[166] Submission 1A, p.33 (OIPC).

[167] Submission 1A, p.33 (OIPC).

[168] Submission 11, p.8 (Mr J Basten QC). See also Submission 40, p.16 (AIATSIS).

[169] Submission 11, p.7 (Mr J Basten QC)

[170] Submissions 4, pp.19-24 (QIWG); 8, pp.12-14 (NSWNTS).

[171] Submission 4, p.20 (QIWG).

[172] Submissions 16, pp.2,9 (AGs Department); 23, p.9 (NNTT).

[173] Submission 1A, pp.32-33 (OIPC).

[174] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.59 (NNTT).

[175] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.13 (AMEC).

[176] Submission 23, p.12 (NNTT).

[177] Submission 23, p.12 (NNTT).

[178] NNTT, Tabled Document, 21 November 2005. See also Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.59 (NNTT). Some 416 claimant applications (or 72 per cent) were represented by representative bodies.

[179] Submissions 8, p.23 (NSWNTS); 4, pp.25-26 (QIWG); 13, p.4 (ALRM).

[180] G Parker et.al., Review of Native Title Representative Bodies, ATSIC, Canberra, 1995, p.37.

[181] Submission 23, p.13 (NNTT).

[182] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, pp.59-60 (NNTT).

[183] Submission 23, p.14 (NNTT).

[184] Submissions 8, p.20 (NSW Native Title Services); 4, p.19 (QIWG).

[185] Submission 23, p.14 (NNTT).

[186] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.63 (NNTT).

[187] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.26 (AGs Department)

[188] Submission 15, p.10 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner). Reference to funding increases for respondent parties relate to the period 1992-93 to 2002-03.

[189] Submission 27, p.2 (NSW Farmers' Association).

[190] Submission 15, p.10 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner).

[191] This position was disputed by the NSW Farmers' Association. See Submission 27, p.2 (NSW Farmers' Association).

[192] Submission 15, p.10 (ATSI Social Justice Commissioner). See also Submission 4, pp.13-14 (QIWG).

[193] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.43 (Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation).

[194] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.47 (QIWG). See also North Queensland Land Council, Tabled Document, 21 November 2005.

[195] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.47 (QIWG).

[196] Submission 8, p.21 (NSWNTS).

[197] Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.54 (QIWG). See also Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, p.47 (QIWG).

[198] Submissions 12, p.5 (GLSC); 8, p.21 (NSWNTS).

[199] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.80 (GLSC).

[200] Submission 27, p.3 (NSW Farmers' Association).

[201] Attorney-General's Department, Draft Guidelines on the Provision of Financial Assistance by the Attorney-General under the Native Title Act 1993, November 2005.

[202] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.11 (AGs Department).

[203] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.12 (AGs Department).

[204] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.13 (AGs Department).

[205] The other factors include whether the applicant's interest is a scheduled interest; if the applicant's interests do not extinguish native title as a matter of law, whether the applicant's interest are likely to be adversely affected in a real and significant way if the native title were to be recognised; and the number of claims which directly affect the applicant (clauses 19.2-19.4, 19.7).

[206] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.12 (AGs Department).

[207] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.13 (AGs Department).

[208] CATSI Bill 2005, Explanatory Memorandum, pp.6-11.

[209] Submission 22, p.5 (WA Office of Native Title).

[210] Submissions 8, p.26 (NSWNTS); 4, p.32 (QIWG).

[211] Submission 33, p.2 (Jidi Jidi Aboriginal Corporation). See also Submission 7, p.9 (TSRA).

[212] Committee Hansard 21 July 2004, p.2 (KLC). See also Committee Hansard 19 July 2005 (Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation), p.39.

[213] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.14 (AGs Department).

[214] Submission 21A pp.1,3 (ILC). See also Committee Hansard 21 November 2005, pp.6-7 (ILC).

[215] Committee Hansard 29 November 2005, p.14 (AGs Department).

[216] Submission 25, p.vi (NT Government). See also Submission 6, p.3 (AMEC).

[217] Submission 25, p.vi (NT Government).

[218] Submission 22, p.5 (WA Office of Native Title). See also Submission 40, p.15 (AIATSIS).

[219] Committee Hansard 21 July 2004, p.7 (KLC).

[220] Submission 6, p.3 (AMEC).

[221] Committee Hansard, 19 July 2004, p.3 (LAAC).

[222] Committee Hansard 19 July 2004, p.3 (LAAC).

[223] Committee Hansard 21 July 2004, pp.26-27 (KLC). See also Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.18 (AMEC).

[224] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.18 (AMEC).

[225] Committee Hansard 19 July 2005, p.39 (Mr D Ritter).

[226] Attorney-General, 'Native Title Reform', Media Release, 7 September 2005.