Calls for South Australian MP to resign from corruption committee after ICAC charges
South Australian MP Fraser Ellis has resigned from the Liberal Party, but pressure is mounting for him to be removed from a body that investigates corruption.
This week Mr Ellis was charged with 23 counts of deception by the ICAC, accused of misusing an accommodation allowance to the tune of $18,000.
He is still a member of the Aboriginal Lands Parliamentary Standing Committee.
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Mr Ellis with the Premier Steven Marshall.(Facebook) It is completely untenable that Fraser Ellis remains on this committee, Shadow Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher said today.
Aboriginal community tensions grow following SA parliamentary inquiry proposal
SunSunday 14
FebFebruary 2021 at 2:40am
The group of Aboriginal leaders believe the proposed inquiry suggests Aboriginal people … are less capable of managing their own affairs .
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A group of Aboriginal leaders has warned that a parliamentary inquiry into Aboriginal governance in South Australia risks causing great harm to individuals, tearing families apart and damaging communities .
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Prominent Aboriginal leaders, including Jeffrey Newchurch and Keith Thomas, wrote to the Premier this month
But other reform advocates say government intervention in Aboriginal corporations and organisations is necessary
In a letter signed by 12 community elders and sent to South Australian Premier Steven Marshall, the group expresses their opposition to a proposed parliamentary inquiry into the governance of Aboriginal corporations and organisations.
What Australia s first Aboriginal truth and justice commission might look like
FriFriday 11
DecDecember 2020 at 10:20pm
First Peoples Assembly co-chairs Geraldine Atkinson and Marcus Stewart say a truth-telling commission is high on the agenda for 2021.
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Sometime next year, there s a good chance Australia will see the start of its first formal truth and justice commission into the ongoing impact of colonisation on Aboriginal communities.
In its final meeting for the year, the assembly resolved to continue consulting with elders and the community on what that commission should look like.
International examples show truth-telling processes are rarely straightforward and are never the final step in the process of reconciling a history of human rights abuses with the present.