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Two Way Governance: Presentation 2
ACCOUNTABILITY
Being responsible for what you are doing
as an organisation by:
• answering to your members for the work
you are doing
• answering to the funding bodies for the
way you are spending funds
• working under the rules and laws of
Australia that oversee your organisation.
ACT
Rules made by any Parliament that
become law for everyone.
In 1976 the Australian Parliament passed the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. The Act came from a
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights. The Royal Commission interviewed Aboriginal people right across
the country and said the law should recognise how important land was to Aboriginal people. The Act made land
rights a part of the law and created land councils in the Northern Territory.