Constitutional Recognition: reflecting on the prospect and direction in the 46th Parliament
In an election campaign that spent much time around esoteric ideas like dividend imputation credits and electric vehicle targets, it is strange that little time was spent discussing Labor's proposal to enshrine a Voice to Parliament for First Nations people in the constitution, via referendum....
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ftunitsydneyepsj:oai:epress.lib.uts.edu.au:article/1586 2023-05-15T16:16:38+02:00 Constitutional Recognition: reflecting on the prospect and direction in the 46th Parliament Cleavin, Ashley 2020-03-06 application/pdf text/html https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/student-journals/index.php/NESAIS/article/view/1586 https://doi.org/10.5130/nesais.v5i1.1586 eng eng University of Technology Sydney https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/student-journals/index.php/NESAIS/article/view/1586/1793 https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/student-journals/index.php/NESAIS/article/view/1586/1794 https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/student-journals/index.php/NESAIS/article/view/1586 doi:10.5130/nesais.v5i1.1586 Copyright (c) 2020 Ashley Cleavin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies; Vol 5 No 1 (2019): NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies 2208-1232 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2020 ftunitsydneyepsj https://doi.org/10.5130/nesais.v5i1.1586 2022-03-13T15:52:58Z In an election campaign that spent much time around esoteric ideas like dividend imputation credits and electric vehicle targets, it is strange that little time was spent discussing Labor's proposal to enshrine a Voice to Parliament for First Nations people in the constitution, via referendum. Unlike nations such as New Zealand or Norway, Australia lacks a specified mechanism for First Peoples’ political representation. As with our decades of inaction on constitutional recognition of Australia's Indigenous peoples, this can also be seen manifesting in our inability to improve educational, health, and justice outcomes for Indigenous Australia. Individuals like newly appointed Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Ken Wyatt, and Member for Barton, Linda Burney, can and do break through this glass ceiling. But such examples serve as outliers rather than the norm, as Indigenous Land Rights leader Galarrwuy Yunipingu noted, ‘I have had a place at the table of the best and the brightest in the Australian nation - and at times success has seemed so close, yet it always slips away’ (Yunipingu 2008, para. 20). The Uluru Statement from the Heart sought to show a path forward from the ‘torment of our powerlessness’ and for ‘reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country’. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Technology, Sydney: UTS ePress - Student Journals Barton ENVELOPE(-58.733,-58.733,-62.233,-62.233) New Zealand Norway Wyatt ENVELOPE(-67.686,-67.686,-67.338,-67.338) NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies 5 1 |
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In an election campaign that spent much time around esoteric ideas like dividend imputation credits and electric vehicle targets, it is strange that little time was spent discussing Labor's proposal to enshrine a Voice to Parliament for First Nations people in the constitution, via referendum. Unlike nations such as New Zealand or Norway, Australia lacks a specified mechanism for First Peoples’ political representation. As with our decades of inaction on constitutional recognition of Australia's Indigenous peoples, this can also be seen manifesting in our inability to improve educational, health, and justice outcomes for Indigenous Australia. Individuals like newly appointed Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Ken Wyatt, and Member for Barton, Linda Burney, can and do break through this glass ceiling. But such examples serve as outliers rather than the norm, as Indigenous Land Rights leader Galarrwuy Yunipingu noted, ‘I have had a place at the table of the best and the brightest in the Australian nation - and at times success has seemed so close, yet it always slips away’ (Yunipingu 2008, para. 20). The Uluru Statement from the Heart sought to show a path forward from the ‘torment of our powerlessness’ and for ‘reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country’. |
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