Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, 29 September 2010, 211 (WyattKen).
2.
Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, 13 February 2008, 171 (RuddKevin, Member for Griffith).
3.
Primarily through the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. See Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia (2008) Research Monograph No 29.
4.
The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, The State of Native Nations: Conditions under US policies of self-determination (2008) 121.
5.
Ibid.
6.
WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, 'Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health (2008) 155.
7.
Ibid, 158.
8.
BehrendtLarissa, ‘Achieving Social Justice for Aboriginal People’ (Speech delivered at the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, Melbourne, 1 August 2006).
9.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) s 7(1)(e).
10.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) s 7(1)(b).
11.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) s 61 (and the power to direct financial expenditure under s 74).
12.
IvanitzMichael, ‘The Demise of ATSIC? Accountability and the Coalition Government’ (2000) 59(3) Australian Journal of Public Administration, 5.
13.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) s 46.
14.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) s 12.
15.
LangtonMarcia, ‘Politics as usual for Aboriginal people’The Age (Melbourne), 29 August 2009, 9.
16.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) ss 46 and 94.
17.
RussellPeter H, Recognising Aboriginal Title: The Mabo case and Indigenous resistance to English-Settler colonialism (2006) 289.
18.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) s 94(1)(b),(c) and (d).
19.
HannafordJohnHugginsJackieCollinsBob, In the Hands of the Regions — Report of the Review of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (2003) 29.
20.
CornellStephenKaltJoseph P, ‘Reloading the Dice: Improving the Chances for Economic Development on American Indian Reservations’ in CornellStephenKaltJoseph P (eds), What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development (1992) 9.
21.
Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management and Policy, Determinants of Development Success in the Native Nations of the United States (2008) 3.
22.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) s 7(1).
23.
Ivanitz, above n 12.
24.
SandersWill, ‘Reconciling public accountability and Aboriginal self-determination/self-management: Is ATSIC succeeding?’ (1994) 53(4) Australian Journal of Public Administration, 475, 480.
25.
Public Law (PL) 93–638 (1975).
26.
The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, above n 4, 21.
27.
Ibid.
28.
DodsonMick, ‘The end in the beginning’ in GrossmanMichele (ed), Blacklines: Contemporary critical writing by Indigenous Australians (2003) 31.
29.
Brandy v Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission [1995] 183CLR245.
30.
Shaw (1999) 163ALR205 at 268 per MerkelJ.
31.
BehrendtLarissaKellyLoretta, Resolving Indigenous Disputes: Land conflict and beyond (2008) 106.
32.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth) ss 30, 130, 131.
33.
The most prominent example was Board member ‘Sugar’ Ray Robinson, found guilty in 2008 of two counts for using his position as ATSIC commissioner for improper purposes, and was ordered to repay $45,000 to the Commonwealth. SchubertMisha, ‘ATSIC wary of repeating past mistakes’, The Age (Melbourne) 26 August 2009 <theage.com.au/national/atsic-wary-of-repeating-past-mistakes-20090825-ey4k.html> at 5 March 2011.
34.
NettheimGarthMeyersGaryCraigDonna (eds), Indigenous Peoples and Governance Structures (2002) 322.
