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Voice a chance to strengthen Indigenous agency, cut through Australia’s ‘bureaucratic haze’

Community & Social

Marcia Langton calls for all Australian to strive towards the ideals First Nations people have honoured for millennia.

Marcia Langton says ‘the bureaucracy’ has let Indigenous people down

By Binoy Kampmark

Culture

Marcia Langton says a constitutionally enshrined representative body would negate the bureaucratic nexus plaguing Indigenous policymaking.

After 50 years of Indigenous affairs, 'We need to do better'

By Stephen Easton

Community & Social

50 years on from the referendum that made Indigenous affairs a Commonwealth concern, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s new deputy secretary, Professor Ian Anderson, sets out a clear and comprehensive vision of a better way forward.

APS secretaries revive Indigenous staff network for SES officers

By Stephen Easton

Career Advice

First established in 2009, then disbanded in 2012, a staff network for Indigenous SES officers in the APS has been revived.

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Voice a chance to strengthen Indigenous agency, cut through Australia’s ‘bureaucratic haze’

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Marcia Langton says ‘the bureaucracy’ has let Indigenous people down

After 50 years of Indigenous affairs, 'We need to do better'

APS secretaries revive Indigenous staff network for SES officers