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Dismantling systemic racism - perspectives from First Nations peoples - Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture 2024

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More than 1500 people tuned into the 2024 lecture to learn about ‘Dismantling systemic racism – perspectives from First Nations peoples’.

Systemic racism, in law, policies and service delivery, has serious and ongoing consequences for First Nations peoples, including poor mental and physical health, economic disadvantage, over-incarceration and social exclusion.

CEO of First Nations Collective Marni Tuala delivered the lecture, sharing the findings of extensive consultations with First Nations peoples across Australia about their experiences of racism.

Dismantling systemic racism – perspectives from First Nations peoples

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Governments must recognise systemic racism and its devastating impacts on Australia’s First Nations peoples and take urgent action to address it, a new report has found.

Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman said, “Systemic racism, in law, policies and service delivery, has serious and ongoing consequences, including poor mental and physical health, economic disadvantage, over-incarceration and social exclusion.”

An Anti-Racism Framework: Voices of First Nations Peoples

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Artwork courtesy of First Nations Co.

This report serves as a foundational document for the development of a National Anti-Racism Framework.

Drawing from extensive consultations with over 496 contributors from city, remote and rural backgrounds. These voices not only highlight the urgent need for action, but also serve as a clarion call for systemic solutions to eradicate racism. 

The First Nations consultations unveiled a complex and pervasive landscape of challenges faced by First Nations communities. 

First Nations women let down by native title system

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A new report on Australia’s native title system centres the voices of First Nations women to call for significant reform.

For the first time since the introduction of the Native Title Act 30 years ago, the experiences of First Nations women have been elevated to show how the system is failing to deliver land justice effectively.

“The native title system we have today is not what we had all hoped it would be,” Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss said.

Women in Native Title: Native Title Report 2024 Community Guide

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This is a Community Guide to the Women in Native Title: Native Title Report 2024. 

It provides a quick and easy way to understand the full report and its purpose. 

The report is an account of the experiences, perspectives, aspirations and solutions of First Nations women within the native title system.

It takes a person-centred approach, highlighting how native title and related systems impact individuals and communities on a day-to-day basis.

Women in Native Title: Native Title Report 2024

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This report is an account of the experiences, perspectives, aspirations and solutions of First Nations women within the native title system.

It takes a person-centred approach, highlighting how native title and related systems impact individuals and communities on a day-to-day basis.

It calls for significant reform of the native title system to deliver land justice and fulfil human rights such as self-determination, participation, culture,  and non-discrimination.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Report launched today

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Australian Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs and Deputy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Robynne Quiggin today launch the Social Justice and Native Title Report 2016.

The document is a state-of-the-nation report on the social justice and native title issues affecting Indigenous Australians in 2016.

Listen to us: we know what we need

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Robynne Quiggin

Children's rights must come first, says Mick Gooda

The recent death of a 10-year-old in the Kimberley is a tragedy and I pass on my condolences to her family at this particularly distressing time.

This tragedy has heightened my conviction that the lives of all of our children in Australia are precious and should be protected at all costs.

Nearly 20 years after the Bringing Them Home Report documented the experiences of the Stolen Generations, the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continues to be a source of great pain for our people.

Social Justice and Native Title Report 2015

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Executive Summary

I am delighted to present my sixth Social Justice and Native Title Report 2015 as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.

I am required to report every year to Parliament on the exercise and enjoyment of the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This also includes reporting on the operation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) and its effect on the exercise and enjoyment of our rights to land, territories and resources.