Stolen wages: Northern Territory class action will hold the commonwealth to account Culture Aboriginal stock workers were excluded from being paid award rates until 1966, soon after which cattle stations turned to motorised mustering techniques.
Strengthening Indigenous leadership and capability in the APS November 12, 2020 By Ken Wyatt Culture Here is a transcript of Ken Wyatt’s speech at the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Pat Turner Scholar Event on 11 November 2020.
Premium Columnists Powerful watchdog plans to bite on the bones of public service ethics October 30, 2020 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks Grant Hehir has used his mid-term report to spell out a less-than-flattering critique of how the commonwealth public sector is faring. But the report is not all doom and gloom, as Verona Burgess explains.
‘All things will outlast us’: how the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction August 19, 2020 By Ann McGrath Culture The Indigenous concept of “deep time”. This concept offers all Australians a blueprint for understanding the land we live on.
Australia’s 20-year-old environmental laws ‘ineffective’, review finds July 21, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment The federal government has rejected the call for an independent regulator to monitor compliance and enforcement of Australia’s environmental laws, stating it would add unnecessary layers of bureaucracy.
Despite its Pacific ‘step-up’, Australia is still not listening to the region, new research shows February 11, 2020 By Leanne Smith Editors' Picks New research shows people in three of Australia’s closest Pacific neighbours — the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu — are concerned Australia does not know how to engage successfully as part of the Pacific community.
Making space: how designing hospitals for Indigenous people might benefit everyone December 6, 2019 By Timothy ORourke Culture Sunshine Coast University Hospital uses evidence-based design to provide outside spaces with views that Indigenous people tell us they value. Architectus, Author provided Welcome to the next article in our Designing Hospitals series, where we explore how architecture and design shape our hospitals and medical centres. Today, we look at what Indigenous people tell […]
CCC encourages police to improve awareness of Aboriginal culture October 25, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Community & Social Western Australia’s corruption watchdog has praised the state police force for taking steps to improve the way it treats Indigenous Australians. The Corruption and Crime Commission tabled a report in state parliament on Thursday outlining ways the WA Police Force has improved its awareness of Aboriginal culture.
‘We’re not better. We’re different’: moving towards treaty September 27, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Community & Social An Indigenous leader has called on the public service to change the way it approaches Indigenous affairs. Professor Mick Dodson, the first-ever Northern Territory Treaty Commissioner, delivered the Garran Oration at the IPAA National Conference in Darwin on Thursday.
NSW Health must listen to Aboriginal communities, says Auditor-General August 29, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Culture NSW Health is failing to form partnerships with Aboriginal communities to effectively deliver suitable mental health services, according to the state’s Auditor-General, Margaret Crawford.
NAIDOC 2019: reconciliation requires more than symbolism July 15, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Culture 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.
'Have you been feeling your spirit was sad?' Culture is key when assessing Indigenous Australians' mental health July 2, 2019 By Maree Hackettand Geoffrey Spurling Career Advice For Australia’s First Nations peoples, routine screening tools have not always seemed appropriate. We now have a validated culturally specific tool, developed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members, to screen for depression in Indigenous Australians.
Backing the strengths of Aboriginal young people March 13, 2019 By Sandra Eades Culture For Aboriginal people, connection to our country, culture and family can be profoundly healing. But in the many decades we’ve spent working to improve the health of Australia’s first peoples – it’s a strength that has too often been ignored and squandered.
Fred Chaney reflects on National Reconciliation Week June 1, 2016 By Fred Chaney Features OPINION: The former Aboriginal Affairs minister urges against centrally designed and centrally controlled administration that disempowers Aboriginal people. The current path leads to infantilising and despair.
Scullion's demands: 'reasonable request' or 'gross breach'? April 18, 2016 By Stephen Easton News Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says he made a “reasonable request” about an independent body’s annual report. But a former chair calls the intervention a “gross breach” of standards.
