E/CN.4/2002/24/Add.1 page 64 11 This included provisions relating to “high impact” exploration permits, mining claims and mining leases on “alternative provision areas”; and “high impact” exploration permits, “high impact” mineral development licences, mining claims and mining leases not on “alternative provision areas” under subsection 43 (1) NTA. “Alternative provision areas”, defined at subsection 43A (2) NTA, include areas that are or were in the past covered by non-exclusive agricultural or pastoral leases, national parks, reserves, etc. In Queensland, the vast majority of land where native title may exist is covered by the “alternative provision area” definition. 12 Pursuant to section 214 NTA the Attorney-General’s determinations are disallowable instruments, meaning that the determinations are reviewable by the Senate. See Native Title Report 2000, p. 159. 13 Moving forward. Achieving reparations. Issues Paper. A joint project of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, National Sorry Day Committee and ATSIC. 14 Ibid. 15 “Our changing face”, ATSIC News, September 2000. 16 Moving forward. Achieving reparations. Op. cit., pp. 6-8. 17 ATSIC NT News, September 2000, p. 1. 18 “Our changing face”, op. cit., p. 6. 19 Mary Kalantzis; in An Opportunity to Change the Culture: Multiculturalism, Immigration and Australian History in the Argument about Political Correctness, Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture, Haymarket, New South Wales, p. 37, annex. -----

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