Research at the Tribunal

The National Native Title Tribunal's Research Unit undertakes a range of research tasks designed to support Tribunal members and employees in their mediation, agreement-making and other functions relating to Australian native title.

This work may be authorised under the Registrar's assistance program, or may be more generally framed as research for the purpose of performing the Tribunal's functions.

The Research Unit's publicly available products are:

• Bibliographies of research reports
  
  
• Occasional Paper Series
  Topics in this series include government management over marine areas, Australian Aboriginal heritage, customary rights, connection of Indigenous people to their country, and Indigenous witnesses. The Occasional Paper Series is available in electronic form only.
  
  
• Commissioned reports
  These reports address issues affecting native title practice in Australia. The issues addressed have included land management; agreement-making practice; and capacity of anthropologists.
  
  
• Specific issue reports
  The specific issue reports series has been produced by the Research Unit and include such topics as: anthropological evidence in native title mediations; joint management of Australian national parks; guides to Australian government funding sources for Indigenous entities and communities; content ideas for agreements between native title parties and specific interest groups; impacts of rising oil prices on indigenous rural and remote communities; integration of native title interests in coastal management; joint management agreements for conservation areas; mineral rights; and fishing rights. Not all specific issue reports are published electronically but all are available in hard copy for loan from the Tribunal libraries.