Strategic Plan 2021-2025

Strategic Plan 2021-2025

YMAC’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025 guides the activities of the organisation across its regions.

The plan is designed to ensure YMAC continues to meet the needs of Traditional Owners throughout their native title journey. Click here to download a copy of the plan.

Core Stakeholder Engagement Consultation

YMAC’s Core Stakeholder Engagement Consultation (CSEC) is helping to inform the delivery of our Strategic Plan 2021-2025.

In general, the consultation is:

1. Seeking guidance from YMAC’s core stakeholders regarding their collective priorities and aspirations.
2. Informing future direction/s of and services offered by YMAC (with a particular focus on the post-determination space).
3. Helping provide on focus what additional advocacy, information sharing, and capacity building work YMAC should be progressing.

As part of this work, YMAC has hosted two community regional roundtables – one for the Yamatji region in November 2022, and another for the Marlpa region in February 2023 – as well as a roundtable for Prescribed Body Corporate (PBC) CEOs in March 2024.

The information gathered through this process has proven critical to YMAC, to take into account and make practical changes to improve how we can help better inform people and corporations in our regions, and assist them in other ways by targeting our efforts and resources where they are most needed.

Further, the roundtables also inform YMAC’s delivery of our Native Title Forums.

Current CSEC recommendations being progressed by YMAC:

• YMAC to coordinate a collective approach to advocating for the recovery money spent by PBCs in preparation for implementation of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021 (ACHA) from the Department of Planning, Lands, and Heritage (DPLH).
• YMAC to instigate discussions with:
  • Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) in relation to expedited procedure.
  • DPLH in relation to the reintroduction of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (AHA) and funding.
  • DPLH in relation to Aboriginal Lands Trust (ALT) divestment.
• YMAC Research, Country, and Culture Services Manager to provide grant opportunities and information around the process for release of collection materials.
• YMAC to arrange regular CEO Roundtables/Forums, focusing on contemporary and live issues to enable information sharing and discussion of important issues impacting PBCs across the areas, including:
  • Heritage, environment, and water.
  • Social Surrounds
  • Land tenure and access.
  • Renewables and Decarbonisation.
  • Agreement modernisation.
  • Collective approaches across issues impacting multiple or all PBCs.
  • New workplace health and safety laws (psychological/psychosocial hazards, etc.)
• YMAC to provide advice around legal support they may be able to provide in relation to Renewables and Decarbonisation.
• YMAC to share resources on Renewables it is currently developing, which will include engagement standards and a project timeline.
  • YMAC to consider how industry benchmarks around licensing and compensation could be a component of this resource, or better accessed by PBCs.
• YMAC to explore making a ‘Policy Bank’ available to PBCs.
• YMAC to look to some at PBC achievements to share through forums, YMAC News, etc. as a means to demonstrate on the ground success.
• YMAC to send PBCs its YMAC Land Administration Guide.
• YMAC to work with Development Commissions in relevant Regions to support and/or share available information that shows high level mapping of what is happening, or planned to be happening, at a Regional level, including: mapping of viable areas for Renewables projects in terms of mining activity and impact on Country; including ascertaining, and/or ensuring there has been free, prior, informed consent (FPIC).
• YMAC to continue informing and involving PBCs in events such as Yule River and Yamatji on Country and related Calls to Action, so they can be involved in supporting local solutions to local issues.
• YMAC to continue to assist PBCs in identifying available funding sources to support their operations and advocate to government for increased funding accessibility, especially in relation to responding to future act requests and other service provision under the Native Title Act 1993 (NTA).

As we work towards addressing each of these recommendations, updates will be provided to PBCs via usual channels, including YMAC’s PBC eNews.

If you would like to know more about YMAC’s CSEC project, please contact Projects Coordinator Teri O’Neill (P: 0418 115 908; E: toneill@ymac.org.au).