Sentences with phrase «title agreements»

Native title agreement making provides an opportunity for the traditional owner group to bring its agenda for economic and social development to the negotiation table.

The failure of many governments to fully develop a policy direction for the negotiation of native title agreements means that the process takes place largely within a legal framework rather than a policy framework.

For government departments responsible for native title, this may mean adopting a whole of government approach which could ensure that options for native title agreements also include opportunities available in other government programs.

How can native title agreements better respond to the economic and social development goals of the traditional owner group?

Native title agreements focus on resolving legal issues; managing land use; and addressing compensation.

Native title agreements recognise and reflect this special role.

But there is increasing recognition that native title agreements need to be more flexible to ensure practical and sustainable outcomes for all stakeholders.

Native title agreement making can provide an opportunity for this to occur.

Participation at these levels ensures that the development objectives of the native title claim group will be integral to the negotiation of native title agreements.

In addition, correspondence from Indigenous community members received by the Commission has raised the issue of Indigenous peoples engaged in native title agreement processes feeling pressured into extinguishing or surrendering their native title rights and interests.

(27) However it is important that the Tribunal's strategy also takes account of the capacity of native title agreements directed to «related outcomes» to respond to the development needs of native title claimants, and the way in which the negotiation process must be structured to enhance this capacity.

I support the establishment of a new tax exemption vehicle for «use by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in receiving and utilising payments under native title agreements for the benefit of those peoples».

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Capacity and skills that could be utilised in native title agreements differ from group to group but may include the ability to sustainably use and manage their natural environment, their cohesive cultural and social relationships, a traditional decision - making structure, a unique relationship to the land of their ancestors, and values that are shared by the members of the group.

An innovative response to this issue would be for the Government to fund a register of experts through which NTRBs and native title parties have access to the expertise they require to negotiate the best native title agreement possible.

Amends regulations to provide for agent - PBCs to enter native title agreements on behalf of common law holders that are legally binding.

If you want to address both issues, you can still title the agreement «joint legal custody agreement» or change it to a «joint child custody agreement.»

Consequently the types of agreements negotiated as non-native title agreements vary enormously depending on the circumstances of the case.

The Government proposes that this new function could support native title parties to maximise the benefits from native title agreements now and in the future.

Native title agreements aimed at economic and social development should:

The key focus of the Government's strategic approach to native title is to significantly increase claim resolution, streamline the claim and agreement - making process, and promote sustainable native title agreements which provide long term economic development opportunities for current and future generations instead of litigation wherever possible.

On 3 July 2010 the Australian Government released the Leading practice agreements: maximising outcomes from native title benefits discussion paper which outlined «possible reforms to the native title agreement process».

The failure of many States to fully develop a policy direction for the negotiation of native title agreements means that the process takes place largely within a legal framework rather than a policy framework.

Native title agreements directed to achieving the development goals of the group should seek to enhance the rights and interests of traditional owners, rather than focus on the limited expression of these rights in native title law or the extinguishment of native title rights.

The primary role of ATS is to carry out the role of Trustee for a number of Native Title Trusts established as a result of native title agreements between Aboriginal claim groups and mining companies, state governments and other government agencies.

The negotiation of native title agreements also provides an opportunity for governments to understand the social and cultural context for the development objectives of the group and to recognise the basis for their social and cultural values, i.e. the group's traditional laws and customs.

As indicated, states are generally willing to negotiate non-native title agreements, although the range of outcomes available under this approach is often not articulated at a policy level.

The failure of the Commonwealth to direct the negotiation of native title agreements towards the economic, social and cultural development of the group puts native title policy development at odds with the Commonwealth's broader Indigenous policy direction.

Capacities and skills that could be utilised in native title agreements differ between traditional owner groups, but may include: the ability to use and manage their natural environment sustainably, cohesive cultural and social relationships, a traditional decision making structure, a unique relationship to the land of their ancestors, and values that are shared by the members of the group.

The Commission believes that an innovative response to this issue would be for the Government to establish and fund a Register of Experts whereby Native Title Representative Bodies and native title claimants have access to the expertise they require to negotiate the best native title agreement possible.

The Commission commends the Government's commitment to consider the limitations of the native title system, and what requirements are necessary to improve it, and ensure that the benefits derived from native title agreements provide the best possible outcome for Indigenous communities.

As indicated in my discussion of State and Territory policies (96) a preference for negotiation over litigation provides an invaluable opportunity for governments and traditional owner groups to ensure that native title agreements respond to policies directed to the economic and social development of the native title claim group rather than to the demands of the legal system.

The Commonwealth also negotiates native title agreements through the future act processes of the NTA where the Commonwealth proposes developments over land the subject of a claim.

BHP Billiton Iron Ore has signed a major native title agreement in Western Australia's Pilbara region covering its Mt Whaleback mine site.