02.07.2025

Recording: Webinar, Review of the Future Acts Regime

Webinar presentation slide deck (PDF)

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22.05.2025

Review of the Future Acts Regime: Discussion Paper Released

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) today released its Discussion Paper in its review of the future acts regime in the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth).   The Discussion Paper sets out a number of questions and proposed reforms for feedback. Organisations and individuals with an interest in the Inquiry are invited to provide submissions until

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22.05.2025

Review of the Future Acts Regime: Discussion Paper (2025)

The ALRC’s Review of the Future Acts Regime has now concluded. The Final Report for this Inquiry was submitted to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on Tuesday 31 March 2026. The Final Report (and accompanying Summary Report) will be made public once tabled in Parliament by the Government. The Discussion Paper continues the conversation started earlier in

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23.04.2025

Submissions

The ALRC’s Review of the Future Acts Regime has now concluded. The Final Report for this Inquiry was submitted to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on Tuesday 31 March 2026. The Final Report (and accompanying Summary Report) will be made public once tabled in Parliament by the Government. The views and opinions expressed in the submissions belong

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28.03.2025

Timetable

The ALRC’s Review of the Future Acts Regime has now concluded. The Final Report for this Inquiry was submitted to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on Tuesday 31 March 2026. The Final Report (and accompanying Summary Report) will be made public once tabled in Parliament by the Government. 4 June 2024 Terms of Reference received 28 November

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28.11.2024

Review of the Future Acts Regime: Issues Paper released

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) today released its Issues Paper in its review of the future acts regime in the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), calling for submissions to the Inquiry.   ALRC Commissioner Tony McAvoy SC, a Wirdi man, commented on the Issue Paper’s release: “I’m pleased to release the Issues Paper for the

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28.11.2024

Review of the Future Acts Regime: Issues Paper (2024)

The ALRC’s Review of the Future Acts Regime has now concluded. The Final Report for this Inquiry was submitted to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on Tuesday 31 March 2026. The Final Report (and accompanying Summary Report) will be made public once tabled in Parliament by the Government. The Issues Paper aims to explain the future acts

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04.06.2024

Terms of Reference

The ALRC’s Review of the Future Acts Regime has now concluded. The Final Report for this Inquiry was submitted to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on Tuesday 31 March 2026. The Final Report (and accompanying Summary Report) will be made public once tabled in Parliament by the Government. I, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC, Attorney-General of Australia,

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04.06.2024

Review of the Future Acts Regime

The ALRC’s Review of the Future Acts Regime has now concluded. The Final Report for this Inquiry was submitted to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on Tuesday 31 March 2026. The Final Report (and accompanying Summary Report) will be made public once tabled in Parliament by the Government. The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has been asked

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