Sentences with phrase «traditional owner communities»

In each State and the Northern Territory, consultants retained by the Commissioner interviewed officers from Native Title Representative Bodies and also various other organisations and people who had relevant experience of the Government's engagement with traditional owner communities.

If Traditional Owners lose this mechanism, the ability to secure benefits for Traditional Owner communities will be greatly diminished, which in turn will undermine efforts to close the gap.

Opportunities for Traditional Owner groups to engage in a future carbon emissions trading scheme has great potential to lift the economic base of Traditional Owner communities.

For native title and cultural heritage outcomes to be robust, positive and durable, Traditional Owner communities need to be able to work through issues of group membership and extent of country on their own terms.

In some areas, representational structures do not exist within traditional owner communities, and people need time to adjust to the process and develop the appropriate skills.

Native title negotiations provide an opportunity to begin a process of promoting these rights within traditional owner communities.

The principles seek to orient native title agreement making to the broader needs and goals of the traditional owner community, and encourage ongoing engagement between the parties beyond the agreement.

The participation of the traditional owner community in identifying their needs and goals for development is crucial.

The respective responsibilities of government and traditional owner community to meet these needs and achieve the economic and social development goals of the group can be articulated in the agreement.

Local Indigenous organisations such as community councils or NTRBs could be used by the traditional owners and third parties as a representative of the traditional owner community.

In Yorta Yorta the High Court confirmed that the applicants must show that the traditional owner community has existed as a community continuously since the acquisition of sovereignty by the British and that in all that time they have continued to observe the traditions and customs of their forebears.

Not exact matches

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office regularly attends community forums, events and committees within the catchments and we are continuing to forge local partnerships that allow community groups, including Aboriginal Traditional Owners, to help shape the regional planning and management of environmental water delivery over the long term.

«At a time when we want businesses expanding and creating jobs in our community, business owners are finding traditional bank financing harder to come by.

CDFIs provide financing to community businesses in underserved markets where would - be community business owners may not qualify for credit from traditional lending institutions.

We acknowledge the traditional and original owners of this continent and pay respect to the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities who are its custodians — including past, present and future Elders.

Due to the growing emphasis on the humane treatment of pets, the ability to assist owners in eliminating improper behavior without recourse to traditional forms of punishment will make the animal behaviorist a valued member of the veterinary care community.

Although for many cats it would be preferable to re-home them into a more traditional domestic setting with an owner to meet their physical, medical and behavioral needs, in most communities this option is simply not available for all cats.

It invites you inside rural living in our country through traditional cuisine, authenticity of the communities, and the wealth that comes from living in a natural environment where sustainable practices promoted by business owners dominate as part of this product.

In this way native title can itself be integrated into the economic and social development of the broader communities that traditional owners live in.

Or it could allocate positions to a national board or executive of representatives for particular sectors of the Indigenous community — for example, stolen generations members, traditional owners, youth, and Torres Strait Islanders (on the mainland and in Torres Strait).

By adopting the concept found in the government's broader Indigenous policy, of integrated planning at the local and regional level, the traditional owner structures can be integrated into the community and regional tiers of governance.

Integrating the structures that represent native title holders into broader community and regional structures would enable greater co-ordination between the economic and social benefits accruing to the various groups within the community, including the traditional owner groups.

The issue of the relationship between traditional owner groups and the rest of the community was raised in the consultations and discussed briefly in chapter 2.

I hope that we will realise a national representative body that engages with different sections of the pan-Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander community — be it women, our youth and children, communities in different geographical locations, traditional owners or stolen generations members.

With answers to these questions, governments can work, in partnership with traditional owners and the communities they live within, towards these shared goals.

Yet if these tests do not satisfy the requirement of Indigenous people, that the process reflects the processes that command respect and authority within their community and the requirement of non-Indigenous people wishing to engage with traditional owner groups then they will not provide a basis for the economic and social development of the traditional owner group.

Delaying negotiations while such a report is prepared will also delay the traditional owner group engaging with the processes that can generate economic and social outcomes for their community.

This would allow traditional owners to build upon existing governance structures in the traditional owner group, establish links with non-traditional owner members of the community and capitalise on the skills base of people already experienced in management and governance.

In subsequent discussions where I have expressed concern about the lack of community consultation on the issue of town leasing, the OIPC have also noted that they are not obliged under the legislation to consult with the community, just with a section of it, that is traditional owners, which the government has stated could mean just one person in some instances.

The proposal in this report to redirect the native title system to economic and social development benefits for the traditional owner group needs to consider the divisions that this might generate if the living conditions for the rest of the community were not also being addressed.

Respondents considered that ensuring time and resources for effective community input benefits non-Indigenous parties as well as traditional owners.

One participant cautioned that, in seeking economic development outcomes for traditional owners, negotiators needed to be careful not to alienate any local «white community».

In this way native title can itself be integrated into the economic and social development of the broader communities and regions that traditional owners live in.

It will also give Indigenous members of the community and the region who are not traditional owners an opportunity to represent their interests and communicate their concerns to traditional owners.

In 2002 SWALSC proposed to the traditional owners that these separate claims be amalgamated into a single native title claim, known as the Single Noongar Claim (SNC), to reflect the common culture and language family shared by all Noongars and restore the community unity that the native title process had undermined, as well as to negotiate better outcomes from the native title process with limited NTRB funding.

allocate dedicated positions on the national structure for designated segments of the Indigenous community — such as stolen generations members, traditional owners, youth or Torres Strait Islanders;

My hope is that we can establish a National Indigenous Representative Body that engages with the different sections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community — be it women, our youth and children, communities in different geographical locations, traditional owners or stolen generations members.

The test for the recognition of native title was determined by the High Court's decision in Yorta Yorta.136 There the Court confirmed that to prove native title, claimants must show that the traditional owners group has existed as a community continuously since the acquisition of sovereignty by the British, and that in all that time they have continued to observe the traditional laws and customs of their forebears.

designating positions be allocated to the national body, or specific working groups, to represent particular sectors of the Indigenous community, such as women, Stolen Generation members, traditional owners, young people or Torres Strait Islanders

Integrating local and regional planning can also provide a number of ways to approach divisions between groups within a community, including divisions between traditional owners and those with historical links to the same land.

In Western Australia, former Aboriginal reserve land was provided to traditional owners through 99 year leases held by the Western Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust; this is in the process of being transferred from the Trust to Aboriginal communities.

Native title rights are isolated from the day to day lives of communities, and from traditional owners» economic development.

They may be relevant only to the traditional owners or they may have implications for the overall well being of the community.

Such dialogue must be based on the active participation of traditional owners, Indigenous communities and their representative organisations.

One respondent expressed concern that traditional owners not be forced to use their native title rights to gain access to these government services, like health and education, that are provided as of right to the rest of the community.

Commendably, some state governments are explicitly guiding their various departments and agencies to engage with traditional owner groups as a particular part of the broader Indigenous community.

Native title groups may wish to include other traditional owners, non-traditional owner Indigenous people or non-Indigenous people in their corporate structure to make it representative of the broader community in which they live, or to increase the corporation's pool of skills.

Developing a native title policy consistent with these principles will enhance the capacity of the native title system to deliver real outcomes for traditional owner groups and the communities they live in.

The Murray Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has worked with the Murray Lower Darling River Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) and other representatives of Traditional Owners to gain support for the concept, and then undertook a pilot mapping project with an Indigenous community.

Building on the capacity of NTRBs and traditional owner groups in this way is consistent with the emphasis placed on good governance and capacity building in Indigenous communities under the government's Indigenous policy.