Annual report 2005—2006

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• About this report
• Letter of transmission
• List of figures
• List of tables
• President's overview
  • The year in review
    • Introduction
    • External factors affecting the Tribunal
    • Trends within the Tribunal
  • Context of native title
    • Legal context, community attitudes and the projected workload
    • Native title is not a panacea, but a range of outcomes can be negotiated
    • By-products of native title
    • Native title and a whole-of-government approach service delivery
    • Governance issues before and after determinations of native title
    • Customary law and native title
    • International law developments and native title
  • Conclusion
• Tribunal overview
  • Role and function
  • Tribunal members
  • Organisational structure
  • Outcome and output structure
• Report on performance
  • Financial performance
  • Outcome and output performance
  • Overview of current applications
  • Output group 1-Stakeholder and community relations
    • Output 1.1-Capacity-building and strategic/sectorial initiatives
    • Output 1.2-Assistance and information
  • Output group 2 -Agreement-making
    • Output 2.1-Indigenous land use agreements
    • Output 2.2-Native title agreements and related agreements
    • Output 2.3-Future act agreements
  • Output group 3 - Decisions
    • Output 3.1-Registration of native title claimant applications
    • Output 3.2-Registration of indigenous land use agreements
    • Output 3.3-Future act determinations and decisions whether negotiations were undertaken in good faith
    • Output 3.4-Finalised objections to expedited procedure
• Management
  • Corporate governance
    • Members' meetings
    • Strategic Planning Advisory Group
    • Agreement-Making Liaison Group
    • National Future Act Liaison Group
    • ILUA Strategy group
    • Research Strategy Group
    • External Relations Working Group
  • Tribunal Executive
    • Role and responsibilities
    • Senior management committees
    • SES remuneration
  • Corporate planning
  • Management of human resources
    • Learning and development
    • Workforce planning
    • Indigenous employees
    • Indigenous Study Awards, traineeships and cadetships
    • Indigenous Advisory Group
    • Occupational health and safety performance
    • Performance of disability strategy
  • Certified Agreement and Australian Workplace Agreements
    • Certified Agreement 2003-2006
    • Workplace agreement negotiations
    • Employee survey
    • Australian Workplace Agreements
  • Risk management
  • Information management
    • Strategic information and technology management
• Accountability
  • Ethical standards and accountability
    • Code of Conduct
  • External scrutiny
    • Judicial decisions
    • Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account
    • Freedom of information
    • Other scrutiny
  • Accountability to clients
    • Client satisfaction
    • Client Service Charter
    • Social justice and equity in service delivery
    • Online services
  • Performance against purchasing policies
    • Procurement
    • Information technology outsourcing
    • Consultancies
    • Asset management
  • Environmental performance
• Appendices
  • Appendix I Human resources
  • Appendix II Significant decisions
  • Appendix III Consultants
  • Appendix IV Freedom of information
  • Appendix V Use of advertising and market research
  • Appendix VI Audit report and notes to the financial statements
  • Appendix VII Glossary

Letter of transmission

October 2006

The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP

Attorney-General

Parliament House

CANBERRA ACT 2600

Dear Attorney

I am pleased to submit to you, for presentation to the Parliament, the annual report of the National Native Title Tribunal for the year ended 30 June 2006 .

This report has been prepared in accordance with s. 133 of the Native Title Act 1993 .

Yours sincerely

Graeme Neate

President