Return of Native Title Materials Best Practice Guide available online
Posted: June 7th, 2024
While this year’s AIATSIS Summit is well-underway in Naarm (Melbourne), YMAC is excited and proud to be able to promote the availability of the Return of native title material from Native Title Representative Bodies or Service Providers to Prescribed Bodies Corporate: A Best Practice Guide – a publication created in partnership by AIATSIS [the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies] and YMAC.
Returning cultural information to the appropriate party/ies is a critical yet complex part of the native title process. The Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) outlines how representative bodies, like YMAC, are required to deal with these materials under section 203FCA. To effectively perform this function, YMAC developed options for returning materials, including a best practice model. This approach is used as a basis for engagement (or re-engagement) with Traditional Owners and Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBCs) in a culturally appropriate way, and helped to inform much of the new guide.
YMAC looks forward to continue working with PBCs from within its representative areas to deliver tailored, co-designed returns.
We encourage you to please review the guide, as well as explore our website further to learn more about YMAC’s sector-leading Return of Materials processes.