Sentences with phrase «nsw government»

Every few months, someone in the NSW government or judicial system passes the buck.

So I decided it was a great opportunity to pay Kathy a visit, especially after fellow friends had told me she was feeling a bit knocked around by the NSW government's endless delays in responding to her judicial review.

I thought it was only going to be nine, but then the NSW government decided to send out a press release at 4.30 pm announcing it was capping poker machines in Fairfield and other high - risk areas.

For example, that the NSW Government consult with people removed to Cootamundra Girls Home (now Bimbadeen College) about the maintenance of the site as a memorial; that Moore River native settlement / Mogumber Mission be restored to its original state and preserved as a memorial to the stolen generations, following consultation with those formerly removed to the institution.

The NSW Government sees the National Representative Body working with the TWTCC, rather than through the agency of single peak bodies.

HREOC calls upon the Committee to commit the NSW government to the effective resourcing of, and consultation with, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services and peak bodies within the framework of the Commonwealth's national framework agreement.

It is the NSW Government's intention that the representative body should not replace the already established specialist advisory bodies but work with them and draw on their expertise.

In November 2002, the NSW Government, ATSIC and the NSW Aboriginal Land Council entered into the NSW Service Delivery Partnership Agreement, the purpose of which is to improve social, economic and cultural outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in NSW.

Even though the NSW government's report to the commission inquiry [Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW] identified that «85 % of Aboriginal children (are placed) in accordance with the Aboriginal Placement Principles, the Department of Community Services noted that «what that figure mentions is compliance with a process rather than Aboriginal children in placements with Aboriginal carers, either authorised foster carers or authorised kinships or relative carers».

The NSW Government has begun transferring out - of - home care (OOHC) service provision from the government to the non-government sector.

HREOC believes that while the NSW Government's «Two Ways Together» policy framework has many strengths, it does not embody a targeted, evidence based approach to overcoming Indigenous health inequality.

HREOC believes that this framework will provide a road - map for consultation between the NSW government and Indigenous advisory bodies and peak organisations to develop sustainable partnership agreements for the delivery of health services to Aboriginal communities.

In NSW the government has responded to the reconciliation process with a plan of action aimed at strengthening Aboriginal leadership and economic independence.

The NSW Government also has a number of consultative and advisory forums on specific issues, for example the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee provides advice to the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment.

The NSW Government has not provided financial assistance to NSW Native Title Representative Bodies (NTRB) to progress native title claims.

As a result, the NSW Government supports the recognition by Australian law of native title rights held in relation to land by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people as established in the landmark 1992 Mabo (No. 2) decision of the High Court of Australia.

The NSW Government supports the use of the Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUA's) to provide a flexible and cooperative means of resolving native title issues to achieve fair and equitable outcomes for all parties.

HREOC therefore welcomes the finding in the Committee's Interim Report that measurement of health priorities and associated programs should be a key element of the NSW government's health strategy for Indigenous communities, and anticipates the Committee's use of the National Indigenous Health Equality Targets to guide this process.

[126] While it is encouraging that the NSW Government is applying the full right to negotiate process without exceptions to the issue of productive mining tenures, concerns remain about the impact on native title parties procedural rights of the Government's use of non-claimant applications.

It is inappropriate for the NSW Government to force native title parties into the native title claims process in the context of inadequate funding to the native title representative body to enable it to properly progress those claims.

In the period between July 2000 and November 2001 seven non-claimant applications were lodged by the NSW Government.

While the right to negotiate is only used in a minority of cases, it is encouraging to see that the NSW Government does not utilise the expedited procedure exception.

The Minister represents the NSW Government in native title determination applications and has the primary day - to - day conduct of the NSW Government's response to native title applications and other native title matters.

The NSW Government's position on entering into negotiations over a native title determination application is that it requires the presentation of credible evidence «to demonstrate that native title does continue to exist before agreement can be reached» (13).

In 2001 in response to the end of the term of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, a Premier's Memorandum announced the development of a new plan of action to build a partnership between Aboriginal people and the NSW Government.

This bilateral agreement seeks to ensure coordinated planning and service delivery, underpinned by the COAG principles for service delivery and Two Ways Together, the NSW Government's Aboriginal affairs plan.

One letter provided to me by the NSW Crown Solicitors referred the claimant to the Queensland Government's connection guidelines as an indication of what is required by the NSW Government.

It is the Premier's memoranda on native title that form the basis of the NSW Government's policies and practices in this area.

The report «The Future of Open Adoption in NSW» outlines the barriers to adoption and details how the NSW Government is addressing the issues.

Coordinated services are provided to clients through a multi-disciplinary team or are based on clear referral pathways between NSW government agencies such as police, health, family and community services, and non-government support agencies.

In March 2017 the NSW Government announced its commitment to provide more children and young people with a safe and stable home through open adoption, including the introduction of a means - tested adoption allowance.

«As we move a step closer towards an Australia where this historical acceptance is achieved, the NSW Government must now enact these recommendations, without delay,» Mr. Mohamed added.

The guidelines are closely modelled on the NSW Human Services Quality Framework (2004), a cross-agency resource developed to inform the service improvement activities of NSW Government human services agencies.

Secondly, the NSW Government is in the process of developing macro water sharing plans which cover several catchment areas that have low water usage.

[102] The original proposal put to the NSW Government by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council and the New South Wales Native Title Services, was as a compensation package in $ 250 million worth of water entitlements.

LiveBetter Community Services, Hunter Valley Disability Services and Mid North Coast Disability Services have been selected by the NSW Government to provide disability supported accommodation services.

The NSW Government is greatly expanding the pilot of an innovative service to help Aboriginal defendants comply with an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order (ADVO).

With this story in mind, I was very pleased to hear that the NSW Government has passed new legislation to recognise, revive and protect the languages of the Aboriginal peoples from across that state.

However, an opportunity exists at this time for the NSW government to consider Aboriginal interests in land in the Western Division and provide a «lasting and equitable agreement».

Following the Second World War, the NSW government enacted the War Service Land Settlement Act 1941, which enabled land to be granted under a number of statutes, including the WLA, to discharged members of the forces.

For example, the NSW Government plans to spend $ 3.8 billion on over a dozen new correctional centres.

Accordingly, if the service is abolished in practice by funding cuts but remains on the statute books — as it almost certainly will — the NSW government will be faced with the absurd but very real proposition that most confessional evidence from Indigenous people in custody will be rendered inadmissible because police can not contact an Aboriginal Legal Service representative.

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NSW Government — Community Services Community Services (formerly DoCS) is the main NSW Government agency responsible for community services.

Community Builders New South Wales This NSW Government website is an interactive online hub for people involved in community - level social, economic and environmental renewal, including community leaders, community and government workers, volunteers, program managers, academics, policy makers, youth and seniors.

The NSW government has not utilised native title as a tool for addressing the social and economic development needs of traditional owner groups.

The NSW government has said that it relies on the definition of native title as set down in s223 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) and as interpreted by the High Court.

The NSW Government's actions in enacting the Aboriginal land rights legislation long before the legal fiction of terra nullius was overturned by the High Court in 1992, was a remarkable and significant step at the time.

In NSW the government has indicated to parties that it is reviewing its credible evidence test in view of these decisions.

The practice of the NSW government in relation to national parks has been to use important sections of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) only to a very limited extent in their negotiation of native title claims.