Jeannie Ferris (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to table documents received by two former committees.

Leave granted.

I present additional information received by the committees as listed at item 16(c) on today’s Order of Business.

The document read as follows—

Tabling of committee documents

In archiving the files for two committees that have ceased to exist it has become evident that some material received by the committee has not been tabled in accordance with usual Senate Committee practices. The material falls into three categories as listed below.

Documents received by the committee and authorised for publication.

This material has been considered by the committee and would normally have been tabled on the completion of the inquiry. It can be tabled without leave on the basis of Senate committee usual practices. It includes:

(1)

Select Committee on the Administration of Indigenous Affairs:

Documents received at Public Hearing at Broome 22 July 2004 from:

Heather Hansen

• Kullarri Indigenous Women’s Aboriginal Corporation Foundation Structure

Kullarri Regional Council

• Kullarri Regional Strategic Plan, part 1
• Kullarri Regional Strategic Plan, part 2
• Kullarri Regional Strategic Plan, part 3

(2)

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund:

Documents received at Public Hearing at Brisbane 15 April 2003 on the Effectiveness of the National Native Title Tribunal from:

Mineralogical Society of Queensland

• Minerals and Mineralogy

Submission received 1 June 1998 on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage protection Bill 1998 from:

Burke Shire Council

• Western Gulf Savannah, The Plains of Promise

Documents responding to questions taken on notice at public hearings.

These documents are answers taken to questions taken on notice during a hearing on 2 March 2004. There is no record of the documents being formally received by the committee. However, it is material that would normally be received and authorised for publication. There is no request for the committee to keep any of the information in camera. These documents could be table by leave . Included are:

(1)

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account:

• Letters dated 25 March and 2 April 2004 from the Indigenous Land Corporation

Documents provided at hearings but not formally received by the committee.

These documents were tended by witnesses over a number of hearings. Hansard records the documents as offered by each witness but there is no record in either Hansard or the committee’s minutes of the documents being received by the committee . These documents are all documents that a committee would normally receive and authorise for publication. These documents could be tabled by leave. The details are:

(1)

Select Committee on the Administration of Indigenous Affairs:

Public hearing in Canberra, 29 June 2004

Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Affairs

Mr Peter Vaughan

• Indigenous Affairs program/function allocations

Mr Bernard Yates

• New Australian Government Indigenous Affairs Arrangements. Structural Framework
• Council of Australian Governments’ Meeting, 25 June 2004, Canberra, Communique
• New Australian Government Indigenous Affairs Arrangements
• Delivering Indigenous services – a new whole of government approach

Public hearing in Alice Springs, 20 July 2004

Des Rogers

• Video – Night Patrol News – Winter 2004
• Article – Night Patrol
• Establishment of Community Working Parties
• Framework for a Charter for Self Determination Murdi Paaki Aboriginal Regional Assembly
• Approved Grant Budget
• Establishment of Community Working Parties

Public hearing in Darwin, 24 August 2004:

Commissioner Ankarriyuwu (Kim) Hill – ATSCI NT North Zone

• Indigenous Constitutional Strategy Northern Territory

Central Land Council

• Submission from Central Land Council (not numbered – doesn’t appear to be on the List of Submissions)

Mr Peter O’Brien

Katherine Regional Aboriginal Legal Aid Service

• Copy of opening statement

Ms Lenore Dembski

• State of the Service Report 2002-2003; Chapter 11: Critical challenges for the APS as a whole
• Human Resource Management – Peter Blunt (excerpts)
• Mintzberg on Management – Inside our Strange World of Organisations – Henry Mintzberg (excerpts)
• Newspaper Article from Northern Territory News, Tuesday August 24 2004 p-3 – Elders project to reduce jail rates (excerpts)

Public hearing in Gove (Nhulunbuy) 25 August 2004:

Miwatj Provincial Governing Council

• Copy of Opening Statement
• Annual Report 2002-2003
• Miwatj Provincial Governing Council Annual Report 2003-2004
• Memorandum of Understanding on Yolngu Learning Training & Employment Outcomes Department of Employment, Education and Training
• Miwatj Regional Authority Consultancy Report A Better Way A report to the Miwatj Regional Council
• Miwatj Regional Government Towards Stronger Indigenous Regional Governance
• Miwatj Strategic Plan 2003-2005
• Miwatj Provincial Governing Council Version 3 Customary Law Policy March 2003
• Miwatj Provincial Governing Council Education Policy  March 2003

Public hearing on Thursday Island, 26 August 2004:

Torres Strait Regional Authority

• A Charter of Representation, Performance and Accountability Torres Strait Regional Authority
• Torres Strait Regional Authority Annual Report 2001-2002
• Torres Strait Regional Authority Annual Report 2002-2003
• “Mawa Kedha” A Territorial Stance Resolutions, Kuiku Mabigal Forum 12-13 August 2004 Badu Island
• The Kaurareg People’s Native Title Determination Questions and Answers National Native Title Tribunal, May 2001

Public hearing in Cairns, 27 August 2004:

Dr P D Ryan

• Submission: Apunipima Cape York Health Council

Mr Terry O’Shane

Cairns and District Regional Council

• Submission: Cairns and District Regional Councils
• Article: Reducing indigenous mortality in Australia: lessons from other countries Ian T Ring and David Firman

(Quorum formed)