Native Title Report 2001

Native Title Report 2001

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Right to Negotiate and Human Rights

• Western Australia

• The Administration of Mining Future Acts in the Reporting Period

• The States and Territories Western Australia Northern Territory Queensland New South Wales Victoria

• Queensland

• New South Wales

• Victoria

• The Obligation of States and Territories and other Instruments of State

• Recommendations

Chapter Two: Resourcing Equality

• Introduction

• Distribution of Funding within the Native Title System

• Failure to fund the representative bodies consistently with their statutory responsibilities

• Funding fails to recognise critical factors

• Benchmarks

Chapter Three: Negotiating co-existence through framework agreements

• Introduction

• Native title agreements are limited by the discriminatory standards contained in the NTA

• Framework agreements within human rights principles

• Issues to be considered in using framework agreements

• Entrenching framework agreements

Appendix 1: Compiled Recommendations of 2001 Native Title Report

Appendix 2: Submission of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Inquiry into Indigenous Land Use Agreements by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund