It did this through submissions to all the inquiries conducted by the
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, through a number of important reviews of aspects of the native title process, including a review commissioned by ATSIC into Native Title Representative Bodies32 and a review of PBC funding.33 It also commissioned an important paper in relation to water rights, of which native title was an important part.34 It is not clear whether the policy development role that ATSIC exercised in relation to native title issues has been transferred into the
new arrangements and if so, how it is to be developed by the government.