Indigenous Land Corporation gpo box 652 Adelaide sa 5001

Land Acquisition, Management, Business, Employment and Training Committee

The primary objective of the Land Acquisition, Management, Business, Employment and Training (LAMBET) Committee is to assist the ILC Board in ensuring that the ILC Land Acquisition, Land Management, Business, and Employment and Training Programmes, including those operated through ILC subsidiaries, meet their objectives and comply with legislative requirements. Specifically this involves:

• Acting as an advisory body to the Board in reviewing and revising the NILS;

• Acting as an advisory body to the Board on the ILC’s Land Acquisition, Land Management, and Employment and Training programmes;

• Consistent with its land management and employment and training responsibilities, acting as an advisory body on the management of the ILC’s agricultural businesses with specific oversight of administrative, operating and financial controls and the employment and training programme;

• Ensuring compliance of ILC-operated agricultural businesses with statutory and legislative requirements, including those under the Act, 
the CAC Act, and the Corporations law;

• Ensuring reliable management, financial and employment and training reporting on ILC-operated agricultural businesses to the Board;

• Ensuring that all risks pertinent to ILC-operated agricultural businesses are identified and appropriately managed; and

• Reviewing all applications and proposals submitted to the ILC relating to agricultural businesses and providing advice to the Board 
on the feasibility, viability and sustainability 
of such proposals.

The LAMBET Committee comprises four members appointed by the Board. In 2013–14, the committee was chaired by ILC Director Neil Westbury. Members were ILC Directors Ian Trust and Graham Atkinson and Mr Mike Stephens, an external appointee with commercial expertise in agricultural business.

During 2013–14, the LAMBET Committee met five times (refer to Appendix 3 for meeting dates and attendance). Director Westbury, Director Atkinson and Mr Stephens attended the annual planning and review conference of the ILC’s agricultural business managers held on 26 November 2013.

Key areas of focus in 2013–14 were:

• Reviewing the RILS;

• Oversight of the approval process for the land management and land acquisition programmes;

• Oversight of the Training to Employment Programme, including changes in external funding arrangements;

• Monitoring the performance of ILC-operated agricultural businesses;

• Developing new strategies for the agricultural businesses; and

• Oversight of the ILC activities in carbon, environment and heritage.