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

List of Tables

Table 1 Total resources for outcome 2005–06

Table 2 Native title applications made and finalised since commencement of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth)

Table 3 Native title applications made and finalised 2005–06

Table 4 Quantity of ILUAs achieved by state or territory 2005–06

Table 5 Clients' perception of the quality of the agreement-making process as indicated by their satisfaction

Table 6 Number of agreements by state or territory 2005–06

Table 7 Clients' perception of the quality of the agreement-making process as indicated by their satisfaction

Table 8 Future act agreements by state or territory 2005–06

Table 9 Clients' perception of the quality of the agreement-making process as indicated by their satisfaction

Table 10 Number of registration test decisions by state or territory 2005–06

Table 11 ILUAs lodged or registered by state or territory 2005–06

Table 12 Future act determination application outcomes (by tenements) 2005–06

Table 13 Objection application outcomes (by tenement) 2005–06

Table 14 Expenditure on consultancies by division 2005–06

Table 15 Employees by classification, location and gender at 30 June 2006

Table 16 Members of the National Native Title Tribunal at 30 June 2006

Table 17 Indigenous employees by classification and location at 30 June 2006

Table 18 Consultancy services let under s. 131A of the Act 2005–06, of $10,000 or more

Table 19 Consultancy services let under s. 132 of the Act 2005–06, of $10,000 or more

Table 20 Expenditure on advertising (via a media advertising organisation) 2005–06