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Implement all actions from the [email protected] report Implement the Uluru Statement From the Heart Create sufficient stock of quality social housing so that housing becomes a right, not a wait list Acknowledge women’s lifetime earning deficit with a corresponding discount on all tertiary education and bonus on superannuation Implement minimum 40% management/board quotas for all public bodies, political parties and publicly owned companies Pay childcare workers and aged care workers like they’re doing the most important damn job in the country, because they are, and take these sectors a...

The colonisers did not want to acknowledge our presence as people. Morrison’s argument was all about lauding “honours” on the colonial “foundations” upon which he claims “our nation has been built”. In any case, any platitudes he utters about including Aboriginal people are empty words. The reality is that Morrison’s government — as with every recent Australian government — is actively undermining the struggle for Aboriginal rights. The federal government has taken no meaningful action to “close the gap”. It has committed with words — tokenism — while doing the exa...

Australia Tweaks Anthem to Recognize Indigenous History The words “we are young and free” were changed to “we are one and free.” The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have lived on the continent for more than 60,000 years. Olivia Fox, right, sang Australia’s national anthem in the Indigenous Eora language before a Tri Nations rugby match in Sydney on Dec. 5.Credit...Dean Lewins/EPA, via Shutterstock Dec. 31, 2020 The lyrics of Australia’s national anthem have been altered by one word to recognize the country’s Indigenous history, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announce...