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INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA

The Australian community has developed a deeper appreciation of the unique place of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our community, but the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people remain over represented among the most economically poor and socially excluded people in Australia.

NATSIEC Calls for Full Reinstatement of RDA
Commenting on the Federal Government's plan to redesign the Northern Territory Intervention, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumencial Commission calls for the full reinstatement of the Racial Discrimination Act.

Social Justice & Native Title Reports 2009
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Will They Be Heard?
The Research Unit of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning finds the consultations with Northern Territory Aboriginal communites concerning the redesign of the Intervention to be inadequate.

“We have to be worthy keepers of our New Dreaming, just as our Ancestral Dream Keepers were strong and trustworthy in their belief that the true spirit of the land came from the Great Spirit of all creation.”

Elizabeth Pike

“Thanks to the Australian Government’s courageous decision to acknowledge the injustices committed against the indigenous peoples in the past, concrete steps are now being taken to achieve reconciliation based on mutual respect.”

Benedict XVI, WYD Welcoming Address,2008.

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