The Uluru agreement
The recent Uluru meeting of indigenous Australians recommended to the Federal Government a council of indigenous persons that would advise Federal parliament on matters affecting indigenous Australians. This body would be like a group of honorary parliamentarians with the government of the day turning to it for advice on how to progress indigenous affairs. The people at the Uluru gathering felt this was a step towards true reconciliation for the First Australians and it would also lead to them being recognised in Australia's constitution, but the wanted this body first. I believe it would work wonderfully well as representation could reflect the various Aboriginal communities across Australia and through these representatives local issues would come to the fore. It would be change from the grass roots up rather than the top down approaches of the past. In its so called wisdom the Turnbull federal conservative government rejected the proposal for this representative body. ...