Technical Guides

These documents provide the reader with information relevant to different aspects of agreement making in the native title process.

  • A Quick Guide to ILUAs for Governments

    Patricia Lane  
    This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the three types of agreements and the issues that arise from each one. It contains some useful tables on basic legislative structures of ILUAs.

  • Authorisation of area agreements

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    This discussion paper covers aspects of the authorisation process for area agreements. It is important that an application for registration complies with all the legislative requirements and that native title holders are bound to the agreement regardless of whether or not they are party to it. A lack of understanding of the authorisation requirements has raised particular challenges and delayed application processing for registration of an area agreement.

  • Guide to future act decisions made under the Commonwealth right to negotiate scheme

    Hon. C. J. Sumner, Deputy President, National Native Title Tribunal
    This guide provides a summary of future act decisions made by the Tribunal and Federal Court under the right to negotiate provision of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth) prior to and after the amendments.

  • Guide to mediation and agreement-making under the NativeTitle Act

    Mary Edmunds and Diane Smith html versionHTML Version   pdf versionPDF Version (320 KB)
    This guide has been prepared to provide practical guidance principally for Tribunal members, mediation consultants and staff about the nature, options for, and best use of the full range of mediation and negotiation possibilities, in order to facilitate and secure native title determinations and agreements.