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A senior member of the Government’s Indigenous Advisory Council has defended controversial plans for a national consultation over proposed changes to tribal laws to include Indigenous languages.
In a scathing editorial published in The Advertiser today, Jim Aboarawy expressed strong concerns about the proposed consultation, which the Federal Government is considering for the first time since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
He also wrote that it is not at all clear that the Government’s proposed changes to the existing laws will address what is in fact a “legacy of racism” in the country, and was written in terms of “staying on top of the situation and keeping the wheels turning”.
Mr Aboarawy wrote that he was deeply concerned about the fact that the proposed changes were described as a consultation under the Royal Commission and its “new legalism”, with the new definition of consultation as a “formal process”.
He pointed out that consultation would “inflame tribal resentments and resentment and resistance” and, over the coming days, he will hold public consultations.
In his editorial, the Chief Aboriginal Land Stewards of Australia우리카지노 (CHAL) said this “inflated and exaggerated narrative is the direct result of a number of events since its inception.”
For example, the CHAL argued that the original plan, which was not recommended or supported, was not only a flawed legal document that created and fuelled resentment amongst Aboriginal people, but also an issue of “friction and conflict and distrust and mistrust in our society and culture… [that] could be resolved and remelted”.
Mr Aboarawy also pointed out that the consultation process itself was not fair and transparent because “the consultation process does not even mention the tribes that will be represented in it, and that leaves a significant hole”.
Instead, he stated, the consultat바카라사이트ion will focus on “a very narrow set of issues such as how ‘cultural’ language is recognisedgospelhitz in certain languages.”
He urged people, the Government and all of Aboriginal Australians to “stand together in support of the indigenous peoples, all Indigenous people who make our countries, countries and countries-indigenous people, and especially our descendants who are going to be in the future, and look after each other”.
CHAL’s President, John White, welcomed the Government’s consultation and expressed disappointment in the fact that his organisation was not consulted about the consultation.
“I’m not going to jump to any conclusions,” M