Sentences with phrase «indigenous affairs agency»

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The Tasmanian Government has made a short - term appointment of an Indigenous officer within the Department of Health and Community Affairs whose remit has been to «develop a policy framework and establish protocols and procedures that ensure that Aboriginal people have appropriate access to personal information held by the Department and other agencies» [76].

OIPC, in conjunction with other federal agencies, has prepared a plan for evaluation activities in respect of the government's whole of government approach in Indigenous affairs.

An information package titled «New arrangements in Indigenous Affairs» was placed on the OIPC website and was circulated in electronic form to ICCs and to contact staff in other participating agencies.

On the other hand, the agency responsible for Aboriginal or Indigenous affairs may have the appropriate or greatest expertise and be the agency with which Indigenous communities are most familiar and have most contact.

Post-ATSIC, the TSRA continues to be the principal Commonwealth agency co-ordinating Indigenous affairs in the region.

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) is one such mainstream agency that has taken on a significant role in Indigenous affairs as a result of the new arrangements.

A series of 1 - day training workshops was held with staff from ICCs and programme agencies to inform them of the new Indigenous affairs arrangements.

Disbanded: programs taken over by mainstream agencies; coordination functions taken over by Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination within Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

The cartoon has been roundly condemned as racist by people including Professor Muriel Bamblett, AM, the chief executive of the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency Co-Operative, Greens Leader Richard di Natale and the Indigenous affairs Minister Nigel Scullion.

The Parliamentary Library released a Research Paper which identified Commonwealth agencies» expenditure in the area of Indigenous affairs from 1968 to 2008.

The principal federal agency in respect of the administration and implementation of Indigenous policy and programs is the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).

formally report to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs twice a year on progress, and ensure that all government service agencies are held accountable for their implementation responsibilities under the Remote Service Delivery Partnership

The new arrangements for Indigenous affairs at the federal level and associated commitments of COAG also provide perhaps unprecedented leverage for coordinating health programs with other departments and agencies.

A few weeks back as part of the Senate Estimates process, all the agencies were requested to attend a dedicated session on Indigenous affairs so that the departments could all be questioned at the same time and Senators could explore the relationships and responsibilities that are shared between departments.