INDIGENOUS LEADERS TAKE ‘EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES’ OVERHAUL TO THE PEOPLE
The proposed strategy, which would return control of funding and services to Indigenous communities, now needs to gain popular support.
Supporters of a landmark report that recommends a radical overhaul of Indigenous policy have begun try…
MORE BANG NEEDED FOR THE INDIGENOUS BUCK SAYS NOEL PEARSON
A body akin to the Productivity Commission should act as an “objective umpire” to ensure relationships between the federal government and Aboriginal communities were “empowering to the indigenous side”, says Cape York leader Noel Pearson.
INTERVIEW: NOEL PEARSON ON EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES
Sean Gordon, Andrea Mason and Noel Pearson appeared on ABC’s Late…
EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES A CHANCE TO CLOSE THE GAP
What is glaringly obvious in the political administration of Indigenous affairs is the absence of a clear vision and set of policies for overcoming the extreme disadvantages suffered by a large proportion of the Aboriginal population.
Wha…
REMOTE COMMUNITIES AIM TO GIVE THEIR CHILDREN BETTER LIVES
For Daralyn Bedford it came with a job. Larissa Malay hopes to be able to give it to her children if she can provide a stable home, something she never had. Shantelle Green credits growing up out bush. Natasha Short thanks “my strong mother” fo…
NOEL PEARSON’S BEACON OF HOPE TO END 50 YEARS OF FAILURE
A radical “opt-in” system of indigenous management that would sweep aside 50 years of failed social policies and create a formal legislative compact between Aboriginal people and government has been launched by a group of the nation’s most in…
THE LONG, HARD ROAD TO EMPOWERING INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA
It is a word that has proved hard to define and impossible to deliver, but it has underpinned almost every substantial discussion about closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage and achieving reconciliation.
When Elliott Johnston wrote t…
RADICAL BLUEPRINT TO END PASSIVE WELFARE
A group of eight communities from the Kimberley to Cape York has produced a blueprint to recast the philosophy, policy and governance for indigenous affairs in Australia based on the idea of empowerment that gives indigenous people responsibili…
ABORIGINAL LEADERS PROMOTE BOLD BLUEPRINT TO CLOSE THE GAP
Indigenous leaders have presented the Abbott government with a bold blueprint to close the gap on disadvantage and advance reconciliation, warning that without fundamental change the gap will be as wide in 50 years as it is today.
They ha…
INDIGENOUS CHANGE PROPELS INERTIA
A full-frontal assault on drug and alcohol abuse in the east Kimberley aimed at ending family violence and a failed era of passive welfare will be unveiled today, as part of a new government alliance with the region’s indigenous leaders.