Australian Human Rights Commission Information for LOI – Australia, 29 August 2016 38. 6.3 Issue for consideration in the LOI: Information on the resourcing of the Implementation Plan for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013-2023 to ensure the activities contained therein are prioritised and coordinated, and capable of progressively realising improvements in the enjoyment of ESC rights by Indigenous peoples. Income management and poverty Concluding Observations paras 20 & 24; ICESCR Articles 9 & 11 39. The Commission is concerned that the Australian Government’s Healthy Welfare Card trials and Community Development Program are not opt-in income management schemes and have disproportionate effects upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.19 40. Issues for consideration in the LOI: 6.4 • Information on the impact of the Community Development Program on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. • Information on the impact of the Healthy Welfare Card trials on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Cultural Rights (native title) Concluding Observations para 32; ICESCR Article 15 41. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples face challenges in having their traditional connection to land recognised through the native title system, and in conducting subsequent economic activities on this land (the Indigenous Estate). 42. The Commission welcomes the Australian Government’s commitment and support for a national dialogue with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the finance sector to identify practical reform options which address challenges to economic development on the Indigenous Estate. These challenges include the barriers arising from the communally held and inalienable nature of the rights and the types of commercial opportunities in urban, regional and remote areas.20 The Commission is currently undertaking an Indigenous led consultation, industry engagement and development of practical options to address these issues through the Indigenous Property Rights Project.21 43. The Commission notes that some of the issues in relation to the realisation of the right to land of Indigenous peoples are also being explored in the Council of Australian Government’s Investigation into Indigenous Land Administration and Use22 and the Australian Law Reform Commission Connection to Country Review of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth).23 44. The Australian Government has also released a White Paper on the development of Northern Australia. Significant tranches of land in Northern 8