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- A Sentencing Conversation: Evaluation of the Koori Courts Pilot Program 2002 - 2004 [Search]
This 159 page report was prepared by Dr Mark Harris for the Victorian Department of Justice. It evaluates the operation of the Shepparton and Broadmeadows Koori Courts from (on Victorian Department of Justice website)
- Aboriginal Customary Laws - Law Reform Commission of Western Australia (2006)
Final report of LRCWA's inquiry into the interaction of Western Australian law with Aboriginal law and culture (on Law Reform Commission of Western Australia)
- Access of Indigenous Australians to Law and Justice Services (2005) [Search]
The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit's final report of inquiry covers issues since the 2004 tendering of Indigenous legal services, including staffing, women's access, resource distribution, coordination and community input (on Australian Government website)
- After ATSIC - Life in the Mainstream? Report of the Senate Select Committee on the Inquiry into the ATSIC Amendment Bill 2004 (2005)
Final report on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Bill 2004, which aims to do away with ATSIC, the elected representative body and to distribute its program functions among mainstream Commonwealth departments. ATSIC’s international representative role is not replaced or paralleled in the new arrangements (on Parliament of Australia website)
- Bringing them Home: A Report on the Economic and Social Characteristics of those Impacted on by Past Policies of Forcible Removal of Children (June 2006) [Search]
This baseline report by the Ministerial Council of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (MCATSIA) compares the different economic and social situations of Indigenous people who were forcibly removed from their families to whose who were not removed (pdf on MCATSIA website)
- Circle Sentencing in New South Wales: A Review and Evaluation (2003) [Search]
This report prepared by the Judicial Commission of NSW and the NSW Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council presents an overview of circle sentencing in NSW. The report evaluates the first 12 months of the circle-sentencing model introduced on a trial basis in Nowra in February 2002 (PDF on Lawlink NSW)
- Committee Exchange with New Zealand August 1995: Third Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account [Search]
The Commonwealth Government Committee's report on its visit to NZ to inquire into Indigenous land rights (on Parliament of Australia website)
- Consistency of the amended Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) with obligations under the CERD: Sixteenth Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund (2000)
This Inquiry was in response to CERD decisions which expressed concern over the amended Act because it "appears to create legal certainty for governments and third parties at the
expense of indigenous title holders" (on Parliament of Australia)
- Consultations during August 1994: First Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title [Search]
The Committee's duties to consult extensively on native title are provided in s 206 of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). This Report documents an consultation visit around Australia in the early days of the Act (on Parliamant of Australia website)
- Effectiveness of the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT): Report of Inquiry by the Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account (2003) [Search]
This Inquiry, conducted under s 206(d)(i) of the NTA, considered the application of the NTA through the Native Title Tribunal (NNTT)(on Parliament of Australia website)
- Environmental Health in Aboriginal Communities in the Kimberley Region (2000) [Search]
Report of the inquiry conducted by WA's Estimates and Financial Operations Committee, which recommends amendments to State legislation on local government, health and dogs, as well as education, services provision and health and housing programs (on Paliament of Western Australia website)
- Evaluation of the Aboriginal Over-representation Strategy, Final Report (2006) [Search]
The NSW Department of Juvenile Justice's 2001 Aboriginal Over-Representation Strategic Plan (AORSP) aims to decrease the number of people under supervision of the department. This evaulation used statistical analysis, documents and interviews, and found mixed results. The report by C Cunneen, N Ralph and G Luke inlcudes recommendations, statistics and strategies (pdf on NSW Department of Juvenile Justice)
- From Dispossession to Reconciliation [Search]
Research Paper 27 1998-99, Social Policy Group, Parliamentary Library
- Good Practice Framework - Policing Illicit Drugs in Rural and Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities (2006) [Search]
Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), this report by Brendan Delahunty and Judy Putt looks at three aims - supply reduction, demand reduction, and harm reduction (on AIC website)
- Identifiable Commonwealth Expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs [Search]
Current Issues Brief No 15 1995-96; author John Gardiner-Garden (Parliamentary Research Service)
- Impact of Uranium Mining on Aboriginal Communitites in the Northern Territory (1997) [Search]
This research paper by Irene Wilson was produced for the Senate Uranium Mining and Milling Committee, and informs the Committee's final report "Uranium Mining and Milling in Australia" especially chapter 5 (on Parliament of Australia website)
- Indigenous Art - Securing the Future: Australian Indigenous Visual Art and Craft Sector (2007)
Final report of the inquiry by the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Recommendations include a new fund to support art, self-regulation for the industry instead of a prescribed code under law. The committee decided not to recommend a resale royalty scheme for artworks (pdf on Parliament of Australia website)
- Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs): Second Interim Report for the s 206(d) Inquiry: Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account (2001) [Search]
This report examines the history of various types of agreements with native title holders over land use, the ILUA negotiation process, registration and implementation of ILUAs (on Parliament of Australia website)
- The Indigenous Protected Areas Programme - 2006 Evaluation [Search]
Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) are voluntarily declared on Aboriginal-owned land and account for 66% of the total land area added to protected estate in the preceeding decade. This independent report by Brian Gilligan was published by the CTh Dept of Environment and Heritage (on Cth Department of Environment and Heritage)
- Inquiry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Bill 1998 (Cth): Twelfth Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title [Search]
Inquiry looked at provisions in this amendment bill. Second Reading speech said the Bill would achieve a balancing of the interests of indigenous people and other parties in relation to the protection of Indigenous heritage
(on Parliament of Australia website)
- Inquiry into the Swimming Pool Program in Remote Communities (2006) [Search]
Report of Inquiry by WA's Education and Health Committee into the administration of a swimming pools program, in the remote Western Australian Indigenous communities of Karalundi, Jigalong, Mugarinya, Burringurrah, Warmun, Balgo and Bidyadanga and the remote townships of Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing and the Northern Territory Wadeye (Port Keats) community (on Parliament of Western Australia website)
- Interim Report for the s 206(d) Inquiry: Fifteenth Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account (1999) [Search]
This reviews several aspects of the native title regime, including effectiveness of the NNTT and State and Territory legislation. Ch 5 looks at extent of extinguishment in detail, cases including Mabo, Wik, Waanyi and WA v Commonwealth (on Parliament of Australia)
- Little Children are Sacred: Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse (June 2007) [Search]
This 350 pg report into child assault and abuse makes 97 recommendations, covering areas including government services and integovernmental cooperation, community governance, relations with police, education, alcohol, family support services and suggests appointing a Commissioner for Children and Young People (PDF on NT Government website)
- Our Culture Our Future - Report on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights [Search]
PDF version (archived on Frankel Lawyers)
- The Policing Implications of Cannabis, Amphetamine and other Illicit Drug Use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities (2006) [Search]
Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), this report by Brendan Delahunty and Judy Putt focuses on the policing of cannabis, amphetamine and other illicit drug use in communities in rural and remote areas (on AIC website)
- The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws - ALRC 31 (1986)
This Report by the Australian law reform Commission (ALRC) investigates issues related to a national legislative approach to recognition of aboriginal customary laws (Australian Law Reform Commission) (on AustLII)
- Reconciliation Framework: Report on Progress in 2001, COAG April 2004 [Search]
This report reviews the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reconciliation framework in its first twelve months. It looks at progress in the three agreed priority areas, as well as the whole of government approach, as well as activities undertaken by ministerial councils (on COAG website)
- Report of Inquiry into Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Bill 2007 and four related bills concerning the Northern Territory National Emergency (13 August 2007) [Search]
The one day senate inquiry into the 5 bills which facilitate the Howard Government's 'emergency' intervention in the Northern Territory, recommended the bills be passed. The report highlights issues including the alcohol prohibition, compulsory leasing, child welfare, income quarantining, policing and funding elements of the intervention. The bills displace the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and give enormous control over NT Aboriginal communities to the Commonwealth (on Parliament of Australia website)
- Report of Inquiry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth) : Eleventh Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title (1998) [Search]
This Inquiry considered issues arising from the Evatt Report of the 1984 Act (August 1996), particularly uncertainty and delay, procedural fairness, Aboriginal involvement and property development (on Parliament of Australia website)
- Report of Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment Bill 1996 (Cth) and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth): Seventh Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title (1996) [Search]
This Inquiry considered amendments to the NTA proposed in 1996, asking specifically whether legislative extinguishment of native title rights contravened the RDA (on Parliament of Australia)
- Report of Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment Bill 1996 (Cth): Sixth Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title (1996) [Search]
This Inquiry looked at the first Native Title Amendment Bill, specifically at issues including extinguishment, future acts, the application process, represenative bodies and mediation by the National Native Title Tribunal (on Parliament of Australia website)
- Report of Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment Bill 1997 (Cth): Tenth Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title (1998) [Search]
This amendment bill was tabled in response to the High Court's decision in Wik in 1996, which found that pastoral leases which do not grant exclusive possession, could co-exist with native title rights at common law (on Parliament of Austral website)
- Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law, Northern Territory Law Reform Committee (November 2003) [Search]
This Committee inquired into issues of recognition and application of Aboriginal law in the NT, and made recommendations for law reform, pilot projects, further consultation, community sentencing and law and justice plans. Topics include payback and promised marriages (pdf on NT Government website)
- Report of the Inquiry into the Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of Property Offenders) Bill 2000 (Cth) [Search]
With the intention to repeal the laws, this inquiry examined the WA and NT mandatory sentencing regimes as they applied to adults and juveniles convicted of property offences (on Parliament of Australia)
- Report of the Joint Committee on Native title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund on the National Native Tribunal Annual Report 1995-1996 [Search]
- Report of the Select Committee on Native Title (WA) (10 December 1998) [Search]
Report on application of native title in WA, considered proposed amendments to State regime in response to amendments to Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). Report covers extinguishment, compensation, the right to negotiate and Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs)(on Parliament of Western Australia website)
- Report of the Select Committee on Native Title Rights in Western Australia (10 November 1998) [Search]
This 300 pg report gives comprehensive background to native title and considers application to WA. Includes: content of title and bundles of rights, extinguishment, physical connection to land, the NNTT, the right to negotiate, registration, mining, pastoral leases, water rights, agreements, the role of the State and also native title in Canada (on Parliament of Western Australia website)
- Report of the Select Committee on Reserves (Reserve 43131) Bill 2003 (WA) [Search]
This report found that the Swan Valley Nyungah camp was shut down in response to misleading advice from two WA Government departments, who said they were unable to assist the community further, despite findings that the Department of Community Development had not ever visited the camp (on Parliament of Western Australia website)
- Report of the Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community: Petrol Sniffing in Remote Northen Territory Communities (2004) [Search]
This inquiry looked into petrol sniffing in 2002 and 2003. The report includes recommendations on new laws, safe houses, employment programs, policing starategies and inter-governemtnal arrangements (on Parliament of the Northern Territory website)
- Report on Progress against the Framework for Reconciliation, COAG 2006 [Search]
This report reviews the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reconciliation framework and the progress made against it for 2006 in every jurisdiction (on COAG website)
- Sentencing and Indigenous Peoples [Search]
Proceedings of Roundtable on Sentencing and Indigenous Peoples convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) and the University of South Australia, on 31 October 1997 (on Australian Institute of Criminology)
- Torres Strait Islanders: a New Deal - A Report on Greater Autonomy for Torres Strait Islanders (1997) [Search]
The Report’s recommendations include that the current governing bodies, (which are Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA), ATSIC and the Shire Council) be replaced by an elected Torres Strait Regional Assembly with the co-operation of the Queensland and Federal Governments (on Parliament of Australia website)
- Two Hundred Years Later: Report on the Feasibility of a Compact or 'Makarrata' between the Commonwealth and Aboriginal People (1984)
Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs Report, with recommendations for further negotiations and consultations towards a treaty, including recommending constitutional change and statutory protection and funding for the National Aboriginal Conference (on AIATSIS)
- Unfinished Business : Indigenous Stolen Wages (2006) [Search]
Report of Senate Inquiry - From the 1890s and even until the 1980s, Indigenous people were subjected to Protection Acts in mainland states and in the NT. Governments and “Protectors” controlled all aspects of Indigenous lives, including employment and payment of wages. Many people were forced to have their wages paid into trust accounts, which never returned the money. (on Parliament of Australia)
- Unlocking the Future: Inquiry into the Reeves Report on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 ( 1998-1999) [Search]
The 1998 report Building on Land Rights for the Next Generation: The Review of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 by John Reeves QC proposed very substantial changes, including the break-up of the major land councils. This Inquiry considered that Report, and then recommended that the legislations should not be amended without further consultation with Aboriginal groups (on Parliament of Australia website)
- Uranium Mining and Milling in Australia: Chapter 5 - Impact of Uranium Mining and Milling on Aboriginal Copmmunities (1997) [Search]
This Report of the Senate Uranium Mining and Milling Committee deals specifically with impacts on Aboriginal communities in Chapter 5 (on Parliament of Australia website)
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