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

About this report

While required to report to the responsible Minister under s. 133 of the Native Title Act 1993, the primary purpose of the annual report of the National Native Title Tribunal is to inform and be accountable to, firstly, the Parliament, and secondly, its stakeholders about the services provided.

The Tribunal is a statutory authority and is therefore not compelled to observe the annual reporting requirements for government departments; however, it chooses to do so.

This annual report in book form is typeset in Palatino 10/13 point. Copies of it may be obtained from any registry of the National Native Title Tribunal (see back cover for contact details) in either book or CD-ROM format, or online at www.nntt.gov.au in html format that may be enlarged to suit the reader. The online and CD-ROM versions of the report also include a PDF version for downloading.

We draw attention to the online versions for those readers who prefer to enlarge the type and who may prefer to choose particular parts of the report for downloading. Upon request, the text of this report in whole or in part can be supplied free of charge in braille.

The National Native Title Tribunal encourages readers to make comment on the usefulness and contents of the report. Please forward any comments to Tim Evans on freecall 1800 640 501 or email Tim.Evans@nntt.gov.au

© Commonwealth of Australia 2006

ISSN 1324-9991

ISSN 1445-7776 (Online)

ISSN 1445-7784 (CD-ROM)

ISBN 0-642-48744-8

 

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