E/CN.4/2002/24/Add.1 page 63 Senior officials from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (Office of the Status of Women, Social Policy Branch, International Division); Attorney-General’s Department, Department of Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Meeting with senior executives of DIMA Ms. Trish Keller, Principal, Narrabundah Primary School Ms. Vivienne Blundell, Principal, Hughes Primary School Notes 1 Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Pukapuka, Pushto, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tigrinya, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. 2 M. Neutze, W. Sanders, and G. Jones, Public expenditure on service for Indigenous people - education, employment, health and housing, Discussion Paper 24, The Australian Institute, Canberra 1999. 3 Ibid., p. xiii. 4 Communication by the Race Discrimination and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. 5 For a fuller understanding of the Native Title Act see CERD/C/4/Add.2, CERD/C/SR.1324, CERD/C/SR/1393 and CERD/C/304/Add.101. 6 Ward and Others (on behalf of the Miriuwung and Gajerrong People) v. State of Western Australia and Others 159 ALR 483 (“Miriuwung Gagerrong”). 7 Ward v. Western Australia (Miriuwung Gajerrong), 3 March 2000 [2000] FCA 191. 8 NTA, section 1251D. 9 Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (A/54/18, chap. II, sect. A), Decision (2) 54 on Australia, 18 March 1999. 10 Sections 26A, 26B, 26C and 43A NTA allow for state governments to introduce legislation that diminishes or removes the operation of the right to negotiate. These provisions and the various state and territory governments’ attempts to introduce such legislation are discussed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native Title Report 1999, pp. 61-67, and Native Title Report 2000, pp. 157-164.