Her comments follow intensifying debate over January 26 over the past few weeks. What we ve seen with all the discussions around the country and certainly the inappropriate and offensive commentary by members of government to First Nations people and organisations shows that there is a lack of leadership from the Prime Minister down, Senator McCarthy told NITV News.
Last week, Cricket Australia announced that they would remove the Australia Day branding from their January 26 matches.
The decision sparked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to say the day wasn t a particularly flash day for those on the First Fleet either.
This assertion was met with outrage - and eye-rolling - on social media.
Port Augusta City Safe program axed, negatively impacting vulnerable community, services say
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Robert Murray utilises Stepping Stones since City Safe was defunded.
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Frontline service providers say the scrapping of an outreach service which helps reduce criminal charges and incarceration is negatively impacting a large group of vulnerable, transient communities visiting the South Australian city of Port Augusta from Central Australia for the hotter summer months.
Key points:
Port Augusta s City Safe program ran for more than a decade before funding stopped in September
Port Augusta Council says while the program was very effective, funding is a state and federal government responsibility
We are on the eve of the nation’s annual ritual of celebrating the arrivals, while not formally recognising the ancient peoples who were dispossessed.
Each year the tensions spill over, rendering Australia Day/Invasion Day/Survival Day a protest as much as a celebration.
But there is a quiet process underway, aimed at achieving substantive recognition of the First Nations that has so far eluded Australia.
A new report on an Indigenous Voice
This process of constitutional recognition is now in its second decade yes, it has been ten years since the process began. In early January, to kick off the second decade, Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt released the Indigenous Voice Co-design Process Interim Report.
The Indigenous Voice to parliament will be consulted on issues of race but will have no power to veto or overturn policy, according to interim proposals.
The government would have to consult a proposed Indigenous Voice on a narrow range of matters, but the body would not be able to veto laws or overturn policies.