The Uluru statement, four years on
This year marks the beginning of the second decade of constitutional recognition. Who could’ve known when Julia Gillard created the expert panel, at the urging of the Greens and independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, that 10 years, seven processes and nine reports later the nation would still be waiting for the Commonwealth to act?
Constitutional recognition is a common form of legal recognition in liberal democracies with Indigenous populations. It is recognition born not of race but of culture. It is a nation-building exercise that seeks to include the First Peoples within the framework of the state to ensure that, despite their vulnerability and unique issues, they have recognition by the state.
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I acknowledge our whānau overseas, joining us from Te Whenua Moemoeā, and I wish to pay respects to their elders past, present, and emerging.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you all today. I am very pleased to be part of the conversation on Indigenous business, and part of an event that facilitates relationship building between Aotearoa-New Zealand and Australian Indigenous businesses.
I came in to my role at a time of great challenge for businesses. Against the backdrop of increasing threats to the global trading system and rising protectionism in our key markets, we now also face an uncertain headwind that none of us could have seen coming – COVID-19.
Port Augusta City Safe program axed, negatively impacting vulnerable community, services say
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Robert Murray utilises Stepping Stones since City Safe was defunded.
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Frontline service providers say the scrapping of an outreach service which helps reduce criminal charges and incarceration is negatively impacting a large group of vulnerable, transient communities visiting the South Australian city of Port Augusta from Central Australia for the hotter summer months.
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Port Augusta s City Safe program ran for more than a decade before funding stopped in September
Port Augusta Council says while the program was very effective, funding is a state and federal government responsibility