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In the Name of Failure: a Generational Revolution in Indigenous Affairs Will Sanders
In the Name of Failure: A Generational Revolution in Indigenous Affairs Will Sanders Introduction In April 2004, towards the end of its third term, the Howard Government announced its intention to abolish the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), the statutory centerpiece of Commonwealth Indigenous affairs administration over the previous fifteen years. In so doing Prime Minister Howard and his Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Senator Amanda Vanstone, referred to ATSIC as an ‘experiment in separate….elected representation, for Indigenous people’ which had been a ‘failure’ and which would not be replaced. Instead a group of ‘distinguished Indigenous people’ would be appointed to ‘advise’ the government and ATSIC’s former programs would be ‘mainstreamed’ to line government departments, though there would still be ‘a major policy role’ for the Minister for Indigenous Affairs (Howard and Vanstone 2004). In this essay, I will focus on the way in which the idea of past policy failure has become the driving motif of Australian Indigenous affairs during the fourth Howard Government and how, in the name of failure, the Government has argued repeatedly for significant organizational and policy change. The first section of the essay documents, in chronological style, this constant linking of the idea of failure with arguments for change. The second section asks, in a more analytic style, what sort of change is now occurring in Australian Indigenous affairs? I argue that the change is best thought of as a generational revolution, which combines a major disowning of the work of the previous generation in Indigenous affairs with a significant ideological swing to the right. -
JOINT STATEMENT Premier and Minister for the Arts the Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk Minister for Education and M
JOINT STATEMENT Premier and Minister for the Arts The Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk Minister for Education and Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games The Honourable Kate Jones Premier welcomes direct flights from Shanghai to Brisbane Queensland has become the first Australian state to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with China Eastern Airlines in a landmark agreement set to deliver a $22 million tourism boost for the State, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced today. Ms Palaszczuk said the agreement came off the back of a meeting she had with China Eastern during her trade trip in China last month. Minister for Tourism and Major Events, Kate Jones, signed the MOU in China overnight. Ms Palaszczuk said the agreement secured a new, yearround ShanghaiBrisbane direct service which will commence in November 2016 with three flights each week. “This new service is a win for tourism, bringing approximately 36,500 additional travellers and generating more than $22 million for the economy each year,” she said. “It comes in addition to a seasonal China Eastern service between Shanghai and Cairns providing access for up to 13,000 visitors each year to Tropical North Queensland, the state’s northern gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.” Minister Jones said the development underlined the Palaszczuk Government’s commitment to growing the Asian visitor market. “Chinese travellers represent Queensland’s largest international visitor market by expenditure, spending more than $833 million in the year to June 2015, an increase of 43% on the last financial year,” she said. “Queensland attracted 360,000 visitors from mainland China in 201415 and Tourism Research Australia forecasts China will overtake New Zealand as Australia’s dominant tourism market within five years. -
The Scabsuckers: Regional Journalists' Representation of Indigenous Australians
Asia Pacific Media ducatE or Issue 3 Article 7 7-1997 The scabsuckers: Regional journalists' representation of Indigenous Australians J. Ewart Central Queensland University Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/apme Recommended Citation Ewart, J., The scabsuckers: Regional journalists' representation of Indigenous Australians, Asia Pacific Media ducatE or, 3, 1997, 108-117. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/vol1/iss3/7 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] ear c n t e s The Scabsuckers: Regional Journalists' Representation Of Indigenous Australians This article paints a picture of the professional culture of journalists at one regional daily newspaper in Queensland, Australia in relation to their self-described practices in the representation of indigenous Australians. Theauthor suggests thatjournalists' ideologies and self described practices tend to conflict. However this conflict tends to be rationalised and justified by thejournalists on thebasis ofthereality of theirpractices and adherence to conventional news values. Jacqui Ewart Central Queensland University, Australill ell, I think the media has got to take a lot of the blame [for W Pauline Hanson]. Cultural and racial stereotypes are your trade. You guys are responsible for creating the very swamp out of which Pauline Hanson has just emerged. You people trade in prejudices. You've been picking at the scab of racism since you started. You're in the scab sucking business. (Noel Pearson, Frontline, 1997). Strong and emotive, but hard hitting words from a man who has been on the receiving end of the II scab suckingbusiness" for many years in his work with the Cape York Land Council in the Northern Territory, Australia. -
Ap2 Final 16.2.17
PALASZCZUK’S SECOND YEAR AN OVERVIEW OF 2016 ANN SCOTT HOWARD GUILLE ROGER SCOTT with cartoons by SEAN LEAHY Foreword This publication1 is the fifth in a series of Queensland political chronicles published by the TJRyan Foundation since 2012. The first two focussed on Parliament.2 They were written after the Liberal National Party had won a landslide victory and the Australian Labor Party was left with a tiny minority, led by Annastacia Palaszczuk. The third, Queensland 2014: Political Battleground,3 published in January 2015, was completed shortly before the LNP lost office in January 2015. In it we used military metaphors and the language which typified the final year of the Newman Government. The fourth, Palaszczuk’s First Year: a Political Juggling Act,4 covered the first year of the ALP minority government. The book had a cartoon by Sean Leahy on its cover which used circus metaphors to portray 2015 as a year of political balancing acts. It focussed on a single year, starting with the accession to power of the Palaszczuk Government in mid-February 2015. Given the parochial focus of our books we draw on a limited range of sources. The TJRyan Foundation website provides a repository for online sources including our own Research Reports on a range of Queensland policy areas, and papers catalogued by policy topic, as well as Queensland political history.5 A number of these reports give the historical background to the current study, particularly the anthology of contributions The Newman Years: Rise, Decline and Fall.6 Electronic links have been provided to open online sources, notably the ABC News, Brisbane Times, The Guardian, and The Conversation. -
Media Stars and Neoliberal News Agendas in Indigenous Policymaking Kerry Mccallum and Lisa Waller
13 Media stars and neoliberal news agendas in Indigenous policymaking Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller Introduction Our essay uses a media studies lens to examine the ascendancy of neoliberal policy agendas in Indigenous affairs. The Media and Indigenous Policy project1 has been investigating the dynamic interplay between news media and the complex, politically sensitive and uneven bureaucratic field of Indigenous affairs. A particular focus has been to investigate the news media’s power to construct problems and suggest solutions in the Indigenous policy field. This essay draws on that research to argue that conservative news outlets have sponsored a narrow range of Indigenous voices to articulate and promote neoliberal policy agendas to government. We examine how The Australian newspaper, as the keystone media on Indigenous affairs, was integral to the rise of Noel Pearson as the singular influence on Indigenous affairs. In doing so, we acknowledge and pay tribute to the thinking of Jon Altman in the development of our ideas, and for his support throughout this project. Altman’s public discussion 1 Australian News Media and Indigenous Policymaking 1988–2008 (DP0987457). 171 ENGAGING INDIGENOUS ECONOMY of the 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response made him one of the few Australian public intellectuals to think and act outside the dominant neoliberal discourse on Indigenous policy. Neoliberal agendas in Indigenous affairs policy The constructivist approach to policymaking (Colebatch 2002, Bacchi 2009) foregrounds the discursive battles that frame some issues as problems to be solved and enable some solutions to be heard more clearly than others. This approach problematises the dominant assumption that Indigenous affairs is ‘intractable’, ‘wicked’ or an area of ‘policy failure’, and helps explain sharp swings and occasional dramatic announcements such as the 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER or Intervention). -
Matt Mceachan M P Member for Redlands
Matt McEACHAN m p Member for Redlands 16 August 2017 Queensland Legislative Assembly The Hon Peter Wellington MP Number: / ■9~7~(5^ / Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Parliament House Alice Street 2017^ByUov8D MP: BRISBANE QLD 4000 Clerk's S ig n a ty ffi^ By email: [email protected] IZ Dear Mr Speaker, I write to draw to your attention a matter of privilege relating to a Contempt of the Legislative Assembly. Please find attached submissions in relation to this matter. I ask that the Member for Ashgrove and the Member for Murrumba be referred to the Ethics Committee. Should you have any queries, I am happy to meet at your convenience to discuss this matter further. Kind regards, Matt McEachan MP Member for Redlands Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition E n c . ■ft Tenancy I \ 7 0. Victoria Point Lakeside, 11- 27 Bunker Road, Victoria Point Old 4165 S PO Box 3788, Victoria Point West Old 4165 S 07 3446 0100 @redlandst<ipariiament.qid.gov.au Emattmceachan.com.au f MattMcEachanLNP Your strong local voice for SUBMISSIONS IN RELATION TO A MATTER OF PRIVILEGE RELATING TO A DELIBERATE MISLEADING OF THE HOUSE BY KATE JONES MP AND CHRIS WHITING MP ON 10 AUGUST 2017 BACKGROUND 1. This matter relates to a question without notice asked by the member for Murrumba and the answer provided by the member for Ashgrove, which on the face of their respective statements appears to be misleading, and a Contempt of the Assembly. THE FACTS 2. On 10 August 2017, Hansard records the member for Murrumba asking the following question without notice to the member for Ashgrove: My question Is to the Minister for Education and I ask: the Palaszczuk government went to the 2015 election with a commitment to restore the front-line teachers who were cut from Queensland schools by the LNP government. -
Aboriginal Australia: an Economic History of Failed Welfare Policy
ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF FAILED WELFARE POLICY Laura Davidoff and Alan Duhs* University of Queensland June 2008 Abstract: Aboriginal welfare policy of recent decades has been widely rejected as a failure. Radically different policies are now being trialed, in recognition of the continuing large gap between indigenous and non-indigenous living standards. Some Aboriginal leaders themselves have called for a rejection of the passive welfare policies of the past, in acceptance of a Friedman-style critique of ‘money for nothing’ welfare handouts, while nonetheless calling for a Sen-style capabilities approach to the policy needs of the future. *Laura Davidoff was formerly an economic consultant and is now a tutor, School of Economics The University of Queensland. *Alan Duhs is Senior Lecturer, School of Economics The University of Queensland I. Introduction: Australia’s Aboriginal population has just passed the half million mark, representing some 2.5% of the total population of about 21 million. In the midst of Australian prosperity and its world-class health and education systems lies what is now widely regarded as the national shame of Aboriginal living conditions. Particularly in remote areas, Aboriginal circumstances are so conspicuously unsatisfactory that critics regard the Aboriginal population as comprising something of a separate third world country, within the Australian mainstream. Respected Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has described life in his North Queensland hometown as “a living Hell”. An immediate indicator of this situation is the fact the full-blooded Aborigines were not even counted in the Australian population census until a referendum changed the Australian constitution in 1967. -
Addressing Indigenous Constitutional Vulnerability Through the Uluru Statement’S Call for a First Nations Voice in Their Affairs
2018 ‘The Torment of Our Powerlessness’ 629 ‘THE TORMENT OF OUR POWERLESSNESS’: ADDRESSING INDIGENOUS CONSTITUTIONAL VULNERABILITY THROUGH THE ULURU STATEMENT’S CALL FOR A FIRST NATIONS VOICE IN THEIR AFFAIRS SHIREEN MORRIS* This article analyses and explores the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s call for a constitutionally guaranteed First Nations voice in their affairs, as constitutional reform intended to address the ongoing problem of Indigenous constitutional vulnerability and powerlessness. It contends that a First Nations voice is a suitable solution: it coheres and aligns with Australian constitutional culture and design which recognises, represents and gives voice to the pre- existing political communities, or constitutional constituencies. The article evaluates, compares and attempts to refine drafting options to give effect to a First Nations constitutional voice, by reference to principles of constitutional suitability, responsiveness to concerns about parliamentary supremacy and legal uncertainty, and assessment of political viability. The article concludes that the proposal for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations voice strikes the right conceptual balance between pragmatism and ambition, for viable yet worthwhile constitutional change. With appropriate constitutional drafting and legislative design, such a proposal offers a ‘modest yet profound’ way of meaningfully addressing Indigenous constitutional vulnerability, by empowering the First Nations with a voice in their affairs. I INTRODUCTION This article analyses and explores the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s call for a constitutionally guaranteed First Nations voice in their affairs as constitutional reform intended to address the ongoing problem of Indigenous constitutional vulnerability and powerlessness. It contends that a First Nations voice is a suitable solution: it coheres and aligns with Australian constitutional culture and design, which recognises, represents and gives voice to the pre- existing political communities, or constitutional constituencies. -
Wild Rivers Policy –
Wild Rivers Policy – Likely impact on Indigenous Well-Being Authored by Dr Joanne Copp August 2009 On behalf of the Social Responsibilities Committee, Anglican Diocese of Brisbane Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................ II 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 1 2 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES LIVING IN REMOTE AREAS ...................................................... 2 3 WILD RIVERS ..................................................................................................................................... 2 4 PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR REMOTE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ............................................ 6 4.1 PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ......................................................................... 9 4.2 APPLICATION TO THE WILD RIVERS ACT .................................................................................... 11 5 THE IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR REMOTE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ........................................................................................................................................ 13 5.1 ENGAGEMENT WITH THE REAL ECONOMY ................................................................................. 14 6 HAS THE WILD RIVERS ACT STRUCK THE CORRECT BALANCE? .......................................... 15 7 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGE ...................................................................................... -
Noel Pearson As Prophet and Performer
NOEL PEARSON AS PROPHET AND PERFORMER: A CASE STUDY OF INDIGENOUS INTELLECTUALS AND SETTLER NATIONALISM IN AUSTRALIA By Luke Kelly Submitted to Central European University Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Supervisors: Prof. Dan Rabinowitz Prof. Jean-Louis Fabiani CEU eTD Collection Budapest, Hungary 2015 Abstract This thesis makes a contribution to the study of intellectuals in the context of settler nationalism from a neo-Durkheimian perspective. My case study ofAustralian Indigenous intellectual Noel Pearson demonstrates the power of intellectuals to shape and contribute to the formation of national imaginaries. Symbolically, Pearson appears as bothprophet and liminal figure drawing on the sacred and profane. His capacities as a performer on the national stage are shown to resonate with features of settler nationalism. This thesis moves beyond the paradigms of political and policy analysis towards a cultural sociology of intellectuals in the context ofnation-building. Symbolic power is shown to be of real significance in understanding Pearson as a political actor and intellectual.It explores the degree of autonomy exercised by a single indigenous intellectual in the political and ideological setting of contemporary Australia. At its broadest this thesis contributes to the study of cultural power in contemporary societies. CEU eTD Collection i Acknowledgements My most immediate thanks go to those people who helped me put the thesis together in the final moments especially Dominic and Ezgi. Dan Rabinowitz made important suggestions that improved the overall structure of the thesis. I thank Salome and all my closest friends here in Budapest for various kinds of support throughout the year. -
Premier and Minister for Trade the Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk
7/24/2020 Palaszczuk Govt secures more AFL teams and games for Cairns - The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory Premier and Minister for Trade The Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk Friday, July 24, 2020 Palaszczuk Govt secures more AFL teams and games for Cairns Cairns will stage at least three AFL Premiership games this year and host two AFL teams for up to a month in a deal secured by the Palaszczuk Government that will inject millions of dollars into the city’s economy. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk today confirmed the deal struck with the AFL to move two clubs to Cairns. “Due to the way Queenslanders have managed this health crisis, we can now focus on Queensland’s plan for economic recovery,” she said. “Queensland is now the home of Australian sport. We’ve worked hard to make sure that Cairns gets a piece of the action. “Having more teams and more games in Cairns will pump millions of dollars into the local economy and support jobs – helping us execute our plan for economic recovery.” Tourism Minister Kate Jones said major sporting events would be crucial to rebuilding Queensland’s economy and supporting local jobs. “Not only are we bringing AFL games back to Cairns but relocating two teams to the city for three to four weeks,” she said. “This will fill hotel rooms, create business for local suppliers and give a boost to the tourism economy. “Never before has Cairns hosted so many AFL games in one season so to be able to bring three games and possibly four to the city is a real coup.” Member for Cairns Michael Healy said the Palaszczuk Government would continue to work with the AFL to extract as much value as possible out of the deal for local businesses. -
16 February 2016 Senate Standing Committee
Our ref: D16/2344 16 February 2016 Senate Standing Committee on Economics PO Box 6100 Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 By Email: [email protected] Dear Senators, Inquiry into the development of the bauxite resources near Aurukun in Cape York Please find attached a submission from Queensland South Native Title Services regarding your inquiry into the development of bauxite resources near Aurukun in Cape York. If you require any further information or would like to discuss any aspect of this submission please do not hesitate to contact me. Yours sincerely, Kevin Smith Chief Executive Officer Page 1 of 5 Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Economics 1. Queensland South Native Title Services (“QSNTS”) is the service provider appointed pursuant to s203FE Native Title Act (“NTA”) to provide native title services in the southern half of Queensland from the Mt Isa Region in the north-west to north of Rockhampton in the east, down to the New South Wales and South Australian border. 2. QSNTS has had no direct dealings with the development of the bauxite resources near Aurukun in Cape York but we do have concerns as a native title service provider operating in Queensland with the manner in which this matter has proceeded. 3. Under the NTA, native title representative bodies and service providers are statutorily required to provide services within defined geographical boundaries and as such QSNTS has not had any direct contact with the Wik and Wik Way Peoples or the agent prescribed body corporate, Ngan Aak-Kunch Aboriginal Corporation RNTBS (“NAK”). 4. As such, QSNTS’s source of information in preparing this submission is based on information available on the public record and communications with the Cape York Land Council (“CYLC”).