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Native Title Corporations

Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate (RNTBCs):
Selected Readings and Resources

This page provides an overview of selected readings and resources concerning RNTBCs, it is organised by:

• Recent Resources
• General Readings
• Legislation, Regulations and Guidelines
• Statistics and National Data
• Conference Presentations

Recent Resources

• Strelein, L. 2011. ‘PBCs charging fees for services' paper presented at the NTRB CFO workshop 2-3 February 2011.
• Weir, J.K. 2011. Karajarri: A West Kimberley Experience in Managing Native Title, AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper, No 30. 

General Readings

• Bauman, T & Tran, T, 'First National Prescribed Bodies Corporate Meeting: Issues and Outcomes Canberra 11-13 April 2007' 1.43MB, Native Title Research Report No. 3, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2007.
• Evidence to Joint Standing Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account, (Elizabeth Pearce, Deputy Chair, Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation), Parliament of Australia, Alice Springs, 19 July 2004.
• Fingleton, J, ‘Native Title Corporations’ 1.43MB, in Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, July 1994.
• Glaskin, K, ‘Outstation Incorporation as a Precursor to a Prescribed Body Corporate ’ in Hiatt L. (ed), Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea, Anthropological Perspectives, Australian National University E Press, 2007.
• Glaskin, K, ‘Claim, culture and effect: property relations and the native title process ’ in Smith, B. R. & Morphy, F. (eds), The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University E Press, Canberra, 2007, pp.59-77.
• Mantziaris, M, & Martin, D, Native Title Corporations: A Legal and Anthropological Analysis, The Federation Press, Sydney, 2000.
• Mantziaris, M, Guide to the design of native title corporations: a companion volume to Native Title Corporations: a legal and anthropological analysis, The Federation Press, Sydney, 2000.
• Martin, D, ‘Designing Institutions in the “Recognition Space” of Native Title’ in Toussaint, S, (ed), Crossing Boundaries: Cultural, Legal, Historical and Practice Issues in Native Title, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2004.
• Martin, F, ‘Prescribed Bodies Corporate under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth): Can They Be Exempt from Income Tax as Charitable Trusts?’ in The University of New South Wales Law Journal, Vol. 30, Issue 3, 2007, pp.713-730.
• Memmott, P & Blackwood, P, Holding title and managing land in Cape York: two case studies 1.30MB, Research Discussion Paper 21, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, 2008.
• Memmott, P & McDougall, S, Holding title and managing land in Cape York: Indigenous land management and native title 1.37MB, National Native Title Tribunal, Perth, 2003.
• Memmott, P, Blackwood, P and McDougall, S, ‘A regional approach to managing Aboriginal land title in Cape York ’, in Weiner, J and Glaskin, K (eds), Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Australian National University, Canberra, 2007.
• Morphy, F, ‘Performing Law: the Yolngu of Blue Mud meet the native title process ’ in Smith, B. R, & Morphy, France (eds), The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University E Press, Canberra, 2007, pp.31-57.
• Murphy, A, ‘Prescribed Bodies Corporate in the post determination landscape’, Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonisation, vol. 5, 2002, pp.162-165.
• National Native Title Tribunal, 'What is a prescribed body corporate?' 3.68MB, National Native Title Tribunal Fact Sheet, December 2007.
• National Native Title Tribunal, 'Guide to sources of assistance and funding for Prescribed Bodies Corporate' 540Kb, National Native Title Tribunal, Research Unit, July 2008.
• Native Title Research Unit, Native Title Research Unit: Summary of responses arising from NTRU PBC workshops 67Kb, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, June 2007.
• Ngaanyatjarra Council Native Title Unit, Funding Issues for the Martu Prescribed Body Coporate Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation (Jamukurnu-Yapalikunu), 2004.
• Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC), Analysing key characteristics in Indigenous Corporate Failure 2.32MB, ORIC, Canberra, 2010.
• Reilly, A, ‘A Constitutional framework for Indigenous Governance ’ 296Kb, in Sydney Law Review, Vol. 28,2007, 2007, pp.402-435
• Riley, M, ‘Winning’ native title: the experience of the Nharnuwangga, Wajarri and Ngarla People’ 65Kb in Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, vol. 2, no. 19, November 2002.
• Ritter, D, ‘So, what’s new? Native Title Representative Bodies and Prescribed Bodies Corporate after Ward’, in Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Journal, vol. 21, 2002, pp. 303- 310.
• Strelein, L, & Tran, T, Native Title Representative Bodies and Prescribed Bodies Corporate: native title in a post determination environment 149Kb Workshop Report, Native Title Research Unit, AIATSIS, Canberra, 2007.
• Sullivan, P, A Sacred Land, a Sovereign People, and an Aboriginal Corporation. Prescribed Bodies and the Native Title Act North Australian Research Unit Report Series, Report No.3, Research School of Asia and Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1997.
• Weiner, J, ‘The Law of the Land: a review article’ 1.42MB, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2003, pp.97-110.
• Weir, J, ‘Native title and Governance: the emerging corporate sector prescribed for native title holders’ 191Kb, in Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, vol. 3, no. 9, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2007.

Legislation, Regulations and Guidelines

• Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)
• Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006
• Explanatory memorandum: Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006
• Native Title Amendment Act 2007
• Native Title (Prescribed Bodies Corporate) Regulations 1999

Statistics and National Data

• Native Title Research Unit, 2011. Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate Summary
• Native Title Research Unit, 2011. Indigenous Land Use Agreements Summary
• Native Title Research Unit, 2011. Native Title Determinations Summary

Conference Presentations

• Beacroft, L, ‘Supporting sustainable corporations in the native title sector’ 24Kb, Paper presented to National Native Title Conference, Cairns, 7 June 2007.
• Beven, A, 'Strengthening Governance in PBCs' 24Kb, Paper presented to the National Native Title Conference, Canberra, 2 June 2010.
• Brim, T, Hunter, B and Hunter, T, ‘New Beginnings: Djabugay’ 3.37MB, PowerPoint presentation to the National Native Title Conference, 2 June 2009, Djabugay Native Title Corporation.
• David, N, ‘Native title in the Torres Strait’ 2.53MB, PowerPoint presentation to the National Native Title Conference, Melbourne, 4 June 2009
• Hobbler, G and Brim, R, 'Up Barron Gorge without a paddle: The Djabugay experience' 11.8MB, PowerPoint presentation to the National Native Title Conference, Perth, 4 June 2008, Djabugay Native Title Corporation.
• Saylor, D, ‘Rivers, lakes and sea country: native title in the Torres Strait', 2.83MB PowerPoint presentation to the National Native Title Conference, Melbourne, 5 June 2009.