Judicial Decisions and Reviews by Outside Bodies

No judicial decisions or decisions of administrative tribunals during 2008–09 had, or may have, a significant effect on the operations of IBA.

During 2008–09, IBA did not receive any reports on its operations from the Auditor-General or the Commonwealth Ombudsman.

The following reports were released by parliamentary committees and other bodies:

• House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs report, Open for business: developing Indigenous enterprises in Australia (October 2008). IBA is awaiting the government response to the report.
• Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision’s report, Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage: key indicators 2009. This report, the fourth in a series commissioned by heads of Australian governments in 2002, demonstrates that increases have occurred in Indigenous employment, incomes and home ownership over the periods covered by the past two censuses.