{"id":266229,"date":"2017-05-23T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T21:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=266229"},"modified":"2020-11-14T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:09:33","slug":"australian-indigenous-leaders-meet-for-historic-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/lt\/australian-indigenous-leaders-meet-for-historic-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian indigenous leaders meet for historic summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Sorry is not enough! Give them an independent state and a lot of money!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Hundreds of indigenous leaders have gathered in central Australia for a historic summit on formally recognising the country’s first inhabitants.<\/p>\n

The three-day summit at Uluru coincides with the 50th anniversary of a vote that allowed indigenous Australians to be included on a national census.<\/p>\n

Australia does not mention Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in its constitution.<\/p>\n

The summit aims to reach consensus on the best method of recognition.<\/p>\n

More than 200 delegates from indigenous groups around Australia are attending the First Nations Convention, which will form the basis of a report to be delivered to the nation’s political leaders in June.<\/p>\n

The recommendations may result in a referendum to be voted on by all Australians.<\/p>\n

‘Substantive’ changes
\nThe summit follows 12 indigenous meetings around Australia within the last six months.<\/p>\n

It is expected to discuss whether recognition should be included in the constitution or covered separately.<\/p>\n

Alternatives likely to be floated include the possibility of negotiating a treaty, and removing clauses criticised as racist from Australia’s founding document.<\/p>\n

Two so-called “race provisions” allow the states to disqualify people on the basis of race from voting, and allow laws to be made based upon a person’s race.<\/p>\n

There is broad agreement that recommendations from the summit should be “substantive and practical”.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten “respectfully declined” invitations to the meeting, saying they did not want to influence the outcome.<\/p>\n

Aboriginal Australians represent about 2.5% of Australia’s 24 million people.<\/p>\n

Mr Turnbull said this week also marked 20 years since a landmark report about Australia’s Stolen Generations, a government policy of assimilation that was in place until the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

“Today, we again acknowledge the Stolen Generations – those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their parents simply because they were Aboriginal. Again we say sorry,” he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“We acknowledge that this removal separated you from your families, from your lands and your languages and cultures that for 50,000 years your ancestors had protected and cared for.<\/p>\n

We acknowledge the continuing deep personal pain that affects your lives and those of your families.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-39996262<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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