Committees - Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Current Inquiries

Options for the Northern Territory to become a State

On 6 December 2012, the Attorney-General referred the Options for the Northern Territory to become a State to the LCAC. A copy of the referral is here

Past Inquiries:

Aboriginal Customary Law

In February 2007 the then Attorney-General requested the Committee inquire into and report upon the issue of the recognition of aboriginal customary law as a source of law in the Northern Territory. This was an issue which arose from an earlier Northern Territory Law Society report into customary law.

An information paper which collates the background information to such recognition and previous evidence in this regard previously submitted to this committee, the 1998 Constitutional Convention and the earlier Sessional Committee on Constitutional Developed is currently being prepared for tabling in the Assembly in November 2008.

Inquiry on Northern Territory Indigenous Affairs

Inquiry on Northern Territory Indigenous Affairs: Examination of Structural Relationships in Indigenous Affairs and Indigenous Governance within the Northern Territory

Inquiry into Appropriate Measures to Facilitate Statehood

One of the major tasks undertaken by this Comittee was to conduct an inquiry into and report on reasons for the failure of the Northern Territory Referendum of October 1998 and to ascertain support for the Northen Territory gaining Statehood by 2001.

The Committee was also required to recommend to the Assemly appropriate means whereby community support for Statehood could be achieved.

The Committee's Report into Appropriate Measures to Facilitate Statehood was tabled in the Legislative Assembly on 27 April 1999.

Contact Details
Ms Julia Knight
Committee Secretary
GPO Box 3721
DARWIN NT 0801
Telephone: (08) 8901 4149
Fax: (08) 8941 2567
Email: lcac@nt.gov.au

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