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Consultation on Possible Governance and Future Acts Reforms
The Attorney-General and the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs released the discussion paper titled “Leading Practice Agreements: Maximising Outcomes from Native Title Benefits" on 3 July 2010 for public consultation on a possible package of reforms to promote leading practice in native title agreements and the governance of native payments. The paper also canvasses possible amendments to streamline future acts processes and an amendment to clarify the meaning of ‘in good faith’ under the right to negotiate provisions.
The discussion paper draws on and compliments:
- the report of the Native Title Payments Working Group established to advise the Government on how to facilitate better use of payments from native title agreements
- the subsequent Australian Government discussion paper on optimising benefits from native title agreements
- the workshop convened on 8 April 2010 by the Joint Working Group on Indigenous Land Settlements to consider what governments can do through native title settlement agreements to support Indigenous communities to achieve effective governance and sustainable economic outcomes, and
- the Treasury consultation paper titled “Native Title, Indigenous Economic Development and Tax” seeking views on a range of tax options aimed at reducing complexity in tax rules for native title payments and supporting effective benefits management under native title agreements.