Sentences with phrase «commonwealth parliamentary committees»

There have been repeated calls for increases to NTRB funding in the reports of Commonwealth agencies, (139) as well as by Commonwealth Parliamentary committees.

Two Commonwealth parliamentary committees, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Indigenous Land Fund and the Senate Legal and Constitutional (Legislation) Committee have, on 2 April 1998, 1 June 1998, and 31 March 1999 respectively, considered the Evatt Report.

Increased NTRB funding has been recommended in the reports and reviews of Commonwealth agencies, 72 Commonwealth Parliamentary committees, 73 State Governments74 and industry75.

Increased NTRB funding has been recommended in the reports and reviews of Commonwealth agencies, 170 Commonwealth Parliamentary committees, 171 State Governments172 and industry.173 Most submissions to the current inquiry of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account into NTRBs, also recommend increasing funding to NTRBs.174 The issue of NTRB under - funding was comprehensively covered in the Native Title Report 2001175 and Native Title Report 2003,176 as well as in the submission of my predecessor to the current Parliamentary NTRB inquiry.177

I have explained this in my submission to a Commonwealth Parliamentary Committee considering the effect of Australia's (voluntarily - assumed) obligations under the International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination:

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He is also an Executive Committee Member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch).

Published in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Matthews and Flinders focus on the parliamentary scrutiny of public appointments in the UK and reveals how select committees have accrued increasing powers to challenge ministerial appointments and how this has resulted in a series of unintended consequences that raise critical concerns regarding the overall added - value of pre-appointment scrutiny.

These comments were made in the course of Dr. Pritchard's submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund: Parliament of Australia, Inquiry into the Consistency of the Native title Amendment Act 1998 with Australia's International Obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination (CERD), Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra 2000 (Herein the Joint Parliamentary Committee CERD Inquiry) Dr. Pritchard's comments were discussed in the Non-government Members Report at p117.

Rio Tinto advised the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title last year that because of the insufficiencies of the Commonwealth's funding of NTRBs, the progress of many negotiations relied on company funding:

37 Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, Consistency of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 with Australia's international obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2001 («PJC Report»), pp 38 - 48.

26 Commonwealth Parliament, Sixteenth Report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund: CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, Canberra, June 2000, para 3.7.

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund (the PJC) initiated an Inquiry into the operation and effectiveness of Indigenous Land Use Agreements in 2000.

It is encouraging to note government support for this principle as evidenced by the Commonwealth Attorney - General's submission to the Inquiry into ILUAs conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund:

NTRBs are funded by the Commonwealth in the following way: base funding for each NTRB53; additional funding and assistance provided to some NTRBs through a reserve fund; a strategic priority claims resolution program; and a capacity - building program.54 The Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Statutory Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund is currently conducting an inquiry into NTRB capacity, with particular reference to NTRB funding.55 I provided a written submission to the committee and made a number of recommendations inclCommittee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund is currently conducting an inquiry into NTRB capacity, with particular reference to NTRB funding.55 I provided a written submission to the committee and made a number of recommendations inclcommittee and made a number of recommendations including: 56

Attorney - General's Department, Submission No. 24, Part I, p17; quoted in Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Sixteenth report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund - CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2000, p8.

Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Sixteenth Report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund: CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1999, June 2000 (PJC Report).

«There is overwhelming evidence that representative bodies are not receiving adequate funding to enable them to assist with the negotiation of ILUAs within the timeframes proponents require or prefer», Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, Second Interim Report for the s206 (d) Inquiry: Indigenous Land Use Agreements, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2001, p99.

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, Nineteenth Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, Second Interim Report for the s. 206 (d) Inquiry Indigenous Land Use Agreements, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, September 2001 («PJC Report»).