Department of Aboriginal Affairs

Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt has announced who will make up the new group tasked with bringing an Indigenous voice to government.

The Federal government’s Indigenous Procurement Policy has been beneficial to the Indigenous business sector, but there is still work to be done to smooth out the bumps, an independent evaluation has found.

The Productivity Commission’s new commissioner, Romlie Mokak, said in a speech at Old Parliament House that “NAIDOC’s impact must surely go well beyond a single week in July” as he discussed the new whole-of-government Indigenous Evaluation Strategy he is developing to analyse any federal policy or program in terms of how it affects Indigenous Australians.

In a fitting tribute, the building where Indigenous affairs policy is developed was renamed Charles Perkins House last week, in honour of the celebrated anti-discrimination campaigner and former Department of Aboriginal Affairs secretary.