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Our Major Achievements Building a Better State Our Major Achievements Building a Better State 2013-2016 WESTERN AUSTRALIA OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS BUILDING A BETTER STATE BUILDING A BETTER STATE BUILDING A BETTER STATE 2013-2016 2013-2016 book cover.indd 3 10/10/2016 11:23 AM GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA – Achievements from March 2013 to August 2016 CONTENTS ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS ...................................... 3 MINES AND PETROLEUM .............................. 44 AGRICULTURE AND FOOD ............................... 6 PLANNING ..................................................... 46 ATTORNEY GENERAL ....................................... 9 POLICE ........................................................... 50 CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY SUPPORT . 10 PREMIER AND CABINET ................................ 52 CITIZENSHIP AND MULTICULTURAL INTERESTS PUBLIC SECTOR ............................................. 57 …………………………………………………………………. 12 RACING AND GAMING .................................. 58 COMMERCE ................................................... 12 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ............................ 59 COMMUNITY SERVICES ............................... ..14 ROAD SAFETY ................................................ 65 CORRECTIVE SERVICES .................................. 14 SCIENCE ......................................................... 66 CULTURE AND THE ARTS ............................... 15 SENIORS AND VOLUNTEERING ..................... 67 DISABILITY SERVICES ..................................... 16 SMALL BUSINESS ........................................... 68 EDUCATION ................................................... 18 SPORT AND RECREATION .............................. 68 EMERGENCY SERVICES .................................. 24 STATE DEVELOPMENT................................... 71 ENERGY ......................................................... 25 TOURISM ....................................................... 72 ENVIRONMENT ............................................. 27 TRAINING AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FINANCE ........................................................ 32 ....................................................................... 76 FISHERIES ...................................................... 34 TRANSPORT ................................................... 78 HEALTH .......................................................... 35 TREASURY ..................................................... 84 HERITAGE ...................................................... 37 VETERANS ..................................................... 85 HOUSING ....................................................... 38 WATER .......................................................... 86 LANDS ............................................................ 39 WOMEN’S INTERESTS ................................... 89 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ................................... 40 YOUTH ........................................................... 90 MENTAL HEALTH ........................................... 41 2 GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA – Achievements from March 2013 to August 2016 ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS ° Youth Services Reform – In 2013, the AACSC initiated a reviEw of programs ° Aboriginal Affairs Cabinet Sub-Committee working with Aboriginal young people. It – The State Government prioritised its showed that the State Government commitment to Aboriginal Affairs through invested around $115 million annually into the establishment of the Aboriginal Affairs these programs. In May 2015, the State Cabinet Sub-CommittEE (AACSC) in April Government announced changes which 2013. The AACSC considers cross agency will result in larger funding grants awarded initiatives and submissions that seek to over longer periods to well-planned improve the effectiveness of Government programs with dEmonstrated spending, reduce duplication and drivE effectiveness. The Aboriginal Youth better outcomes, coordination and Investment Reforms ImplEmentation and collaboration in Aboriginal Affairs. Leadership Group has bEEn established to drive the reforms. ° Regional Services Reform – In May 2015, the State Government announced major ° Aboriginal Heritage – The Aboriginal reforms to the way services will bE Heritage Amendment Bill 2014 was provided to Aboriginal communitiEs in introduced into Parliament in November remote areas. The reforms were informed 2014. In April 2016, the mEmbership of the by an AACSC-initiated reviEw of Aboriginal Aboriginal Cultural Material CommittEE services in the RoebournE area in 2013. was increased to 10 with additional The reforms will prioritise funding to Aboriginal mEmbers coming from the East locations that provide real economic Kimberley, Pilbara, Ngaanyatjarra Lands opportunities and a safe Environment for and the South-West. The Expanded children. mEmbership will contribute to thE The reforms are being led by the Minister improved protection of Aboriginal heritagE for Regional DEvelopment and the across the State. Minister for Child Protection, reporting to Cabinet through the AACSC. A Reform Unit has bEEn established to drivE the reforms, which are initially focused on thE Kimberley and Pilbara regions. Governance arrangements includE direct Aboriginal engagement through Strategic Advisory Councils and District LeadErship Groups. In July 2016, the Liberal-National Government launched a roadmap for regional and remote Aboriginal communities Resilient Families, Strong Communities. 3 GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA – Achievements from March 2013 to August 2016 ° South West Native Title Settlement –The number of Aboriginal boys receiving a WA South West Native Title SettlEment is thE Certificate of Education and/or a most wide-ranging nativE title proposal Certificate II or higher training since the 1992 High Court Mabo dEcision. qualification in schools with a Clontarf The WA Government and Noongar Academy. representatives have bEen negotiating since 2009 and the WA Government’s ° Aboriginal Recognition – The Liberal offer, which has bEEn accepted by all six National Government is committed to thE Noongar claimant groups, providEs the advancement of Aboriginal people in Noongar pEople with long-term benefits. Western Australia and supports the Under the package, $600 million will bE recognition of Aboriginal people in the paid to the Noongar Boodja Trust in Constitution. The Constitution Amendment instalments over 12 yEars, $120 million will (Recognition of Aboriginal People) Bill 2015 go towards Noongar administration and was introduced into the LegislativE programs over 12 years, and up to 320,000 Assembly in June 2015 by Ms JosiE Farrer hectares from the Crown estate will bE MLA and passed through both Houses of transferred to the trust in multiple parcels. Parliament in 2015. Heritage agreements and the proposed transfer of Aboriginal Land Trust ° Intestate Estates – In August 2013, the propertiEs have bEen part of the State Government provided parity for negotiations for the settlement. In May Aboriginal people who die without a valid 2016, the Noongar (Koorah, Nitja, will by repealing Part IV of the Aboriginal Boordahwan) (Past, Present, Future) Affairs Planning Authority Act 1972 (AAPA Recognition Act 2016, recognising thE Act) and bringing them under the samE Noongar peoplE as the Traditional Owners scheme of distributing intestate Estates as of the South West, passed through non-Aboriginal pEople. Parliament. ° Hearson Cove Compound – The ongoing ° Aboriginal Community Patrols – The StatE managEment of cultural matErials, Government confirmed its commitment to including rock art, in the Hearson CovE Aboriginal community patrols by allocating Compound on the Burrup Peninsula has funding of $24.4 million over four years bEEn a source of concern to Traditional (2014-15 to 2017-18) for 14 patrols across Owners for approximately 30 years. In the State. Patrols provide street-lEvel order to address thesE concerns, the interventions to assist Aboriginal peoplE at Department of Aboriginal Affairs brought risk of harm. together an Aboriginal Senior Men’s Working Group, GovernmEnt and industry, ° Clontarf Foundation Academies - In 2014- to dEvelop agreements and partnerships. 15, the Liberal-National Government The Hearson Cove Compound remediation contributed $4.47 million through the project commenced mid June 2014 and Department of Education and Royalties for was complEted in OctobEr 2014, during Regions to the Clontarf Foundation to which timE approximately 1800 engraved support Clontarf Foundation acadEmies in boulders were relocated to the adjacent 24 host public schools across thE rocky outcrop to ensure they werE State. Funding increased to $4.825 million protected from nEarby oil and gas in 2015-16 and is forecast to be $4.946 extraction activities. million in 2016-17. These acadEmiEs support education, training and employment for Aboriginal students. SincE 2008, there has bEen a 50% increase in the 4 GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA – Achievements from March 2013 to August 2016 Ancestral Remains Repatriation Project – ° Pastoral Lease Management – The In 2013, an Ancestral Remains Repatriation Aboriginal Lands Trust holds a number of Program was established to coordinate the pastoral leases including those at LakE appropriate return to Country of ancestral Gregory and Billiluna. In 2010, the Pastoral remains, in partnership with Aboriginal Lands Board issued default notices over people. these leases for the lack of proper Since the program’s inception (to mid- managEment over a number of years. 2016) 36 projects have bEEn completed Following the implementation
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