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- Aboriginal Affairs Policy: Where to From Here?
Speech by Frank Brennan at Parliament House Rally, 6 September 1995 published in Uniya (RSJ Library on AustLII) - Aboriginal Reconciliation after the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation - COAG Communique, 3 Nov 2000 [Search
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A framework commitment made by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to remedy Indigenous disadvantage and help progress towards reconciliation. The three priority areas are community leadership, reviewing programmes and services and building links between the business sector and indigenous communities (on COAG website) - Aboriginal Reconciliation An Historical Perspective - The Bicentenary
Aboriginal Perspective on the Bicentenary (RSJ Library on AustLII) - Apology Australia
Online apology regarding the Stolen Generation, links to reconciliation activities and general resources - Appendix 2: Progress on Reconciliation by State, Territory and Local Governments (Social Justice Report 2001) [Search]
Overview of progress made by state, territory and local governments in response to relevant recommendations of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR). It is intended to complement the evaluation of progress at the federal level in chapter 6 of the same report (on HREOC website) - ATSIC Issues: Reconciliation [Search]
Background information with links to the Draft Document for Reconciliation and As a Matter of Fact (on Pandora) - Australian Reconciliation Convention - An Overview
Objectives were to provide an opportunity for Australians from a wide range of backgrounds to be involved in reconciliation. It focused on the three broad themes of reconciliation in the community, human rights and constitutional matters. The Convention agreed on the need for a national document of reconciliation (RSJ Library on austLII) - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) [Search]
Current and background information or issues dealing with moral and legal recognition of and respect for the distinctive status of Indigenous Australians, recognition of rights, including self-determination, relationships to land and maintenance and growth of Indigenous cultures - Barunga Statement
Presented by the NLC to Prime Minister setting outrequirements of Aboriginal organisations for any treaty - Chapter 6: Reconciliation - National Progress One Year on (Social Justice Report 2001) [Search]
Examines the measures adopted to implement reconciliation and ensure that it is ongoing. It seeks to determine whether the federal government has begun to implement the recommendations of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR), as well as the fourteen recommendations on reconciliation which were contained in the Social Justice Report 2000 (on HREOC website) - Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR) [Search]
Home page (archive website) - Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991 (Cth)
Established the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR) to promote formal reconciliation, ceased in 2001 (on AustLII) - Documents of Reconciliation - Briefing Paper [Search]
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR) - Draft Australian Declaration Towards Reconciliation (CAR)
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR) developed and released the first draft declaration for public debate and urged the govermnment to support it (on AustLII) - Draft Australian Declaration Towards Reconciliation (Prime Minister's Version) [Search]
Australian Government response to the Draft Declaration Towards Reconciliation, a version which removed all references to customary law, legal pluralism, a national apology and self determination (Prime Minister's homepage) - Going Forward - Social Justice for the First Australians
Report invited by the Prime Minister as partof the 'social justice' component of the Government's response to Mabo (RSJ Library on AustLII) - Hot Topic 33: Reconciliation [Search]
Hot Topics are an ongoing series of booklets about recent changes and current debates in the law published by the Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC) (on AustLII) - Inquiry into the Progress Towards National Reconciliation (2002 - 2003) [Search]
Inquiry into the adequacy of govt response to recommendations for national reconciliation made by Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR) and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (on Australian Parliament website) - National Reconciliation Week 1996 [Search]
(The Law Report ABC Radio) transcript - Prime Minister Keating's Redfern Park Speech [Search]
(Apology Australia) - Queers for reconciliation [Search]
This site contains useful links to sites dealing with current Indigenous issues - ReconciliACTION [Search]
A youth reconciliation group organised by young people aged around 18 to 25 - Reconciliation and Social Justice Project
The Library includes significant documents concerning reconciliation and social justice (on AustLII) - Reconciliation Australia [Search]
Independent body established to provide a continuing national focus for reconciliation following the end of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in December 2000. (Homepage) - Reconciliation Framework: Report on Progress in 2001, COAG April 2004 [Search]
This report reviews the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reconciliation framework in its first twelve months. It looks at progress in the three agreed priority areas, as well as the whole of government approach, as well as activities undertaken by ministerial councils (on COAG website) - Report on Progress against the Framework for Reconciliation, COAG 2006 [Search]
This report reviews the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reconciliation framework and the progress made against it for 2006 in every jurisdiction (on COAG website) - Walking Together - The First Steps
Report on the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation's First Triennium (on AustLII)