Legal and Constitutional
Affairs Committee
Inquiry
on Northern Territory Indigenous Affairs: Examination of Structural Relationships
in Indigenous Affairs and Indigenous Governance within the Northern Territory
On 22
May 2002, the Committee, having regard to the resolution of the Legislative
Assembly of 25 October 2001 in providing additional terms of reference,
resolved among other things, to conduct an inquiry into matters relating
to Indigenous governance in the Northern Territory, in particular, the examination
of appropriate relationships that should exist between the Indigenous people/communities
of the Northern Territory, the Northern Territory Government and the wider
Territory community:
In elaborating on Framework
Agreements, the Committee took into account its 1999 Report into Appropriate
Means to Facilitate Statehood which included a discussion of the interests
of the Indigenous people of the Northern Territory as part of any grant
of Statehood. The report also discussed the subject of a possible Framework
Agreement for the Northern Territory, that is, an agreement between the
Northern Territory Government, and the representatives of the Indigenous
people of the Northern Territory, concerning a range of issues of vital
interest to the two parties, and setting out a framework within which the
relationship between the two could or should be developed in the future.
Although this Inquiry
is not directly tied to Statehood, the Committee is aware that the outcome
of this Inquiry is an issue critical to the future success of Statehood.
The Committee has prepared
a Discussion Paper in respect of this matter:
Discussion
Paper No.1 - Inquiry on Northern Territory Indigenous Affairs: Examination
of Structural Relationships in Indigenous Affairs and Indigenous Governance
within the Northern Territory, June 2002.
Membership
of Committee
Contact Details
Ms Pat Hancock
Director Committee Secretariart
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
GPO Box 3721
DARWIN NT 0801
Telephone:
(08) 8946 1429
Fax: (08) 8946 1420
Email: pat.hancock@nt.gov.au
