2008
anu centre for dialogue
Building Sustainable Policy for Indigenous Affairs in Australia
21 June 2008, Stanner Reading Room, Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies, Acton Peninsula, A.C.T.
 The ANU National Centre for Indigenous Studies collaborated with the ANU College of Law and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in organising this inaugural ANU Centre for Dialogue event: Building Sustainable Policy for Indigenous Affairs in Australia.
The ANU Centre for Dialogue is currently being hosted by the ANU College of Law but will eventually be located on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin between the National Library and Questacon, as an integral part of the National Humanities and Science campus. The Centre facilitates constructive dialogue as a peaceful and democratic way of communicating and negotiating. As such, it is ideal for summits on multi-stakeholder issues.
Forty invited participants with significant experience in the areas of Indigenous culture, health, housing, education, law, business and policy attended the whole-day dialogue, which was moderated by expert facilitators Kerry Arabena and Father Frank Brennan. In accordance with the aims of the new Centre, the dialogue focussed on respectful engagement and meaningful debate on this weighty issue of national importance. On the Agenda were the Northern Territory intervention , constitutional reform and other methods of formal recognition for Indigenous peoples, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and a national representative body and its relationship to government. Optimal service delivery and governance models were canvassed based on knowledge of what had worked and not worked in the past.
Key issues and recommendations were identified by participants which will be encapsulated in a more detailed Report on the dialogue. An Executive Summary of this Report has been disseminated to relevant Indigenous peak bodies and to State, Territory and Commonwealth governments in the hope of informing achievable policy outcomes.
View an article on this event in the inaugural issue of the NCIS e-Newsletter.
Contact us:
Sarah Holcombe Sarah.Holcombe @ anu.edu.au
Jo-Anne Weinman Jo-Anne.Weinman @ anu.edu.au
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preventing Indigenous Family Violence National Research and Policy Forum
10-11 April 2008, Mabo Room, AIATSIS, Canberra
The NCIS conducted a national forum this year bringing together researchers and policy-makers working in the area of preventing Indigenous family violence. Although this important issue has dominated national media since the federal intervention, the framework for reporting is overwhelmingly negative. Through a two year project initially supported by the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the NCIS identified numerous stories from around Australia of successful community initiatives combating Indigenous family violence.
The forum aimed to inform the development of a national research strategy to combat violence by exchanging information about successful community-based programs that drew on Indigenous knowledge and experience, and about how to further engage with local practitioners as well as consolidate and coordinate research in the field.
View an article on this event in the inaugural issue of the NCIS e-Newsletter.
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2006
LINK-UP new south wales vISIT
27 February 2006, NCIS, ANU
 Field workers from Link-Up NSW visited NCIS for a meeting to discuss possible collaborations between NCIS and Link-UP. Link-Up is an organisation that began on a voluntary basis in 1980. The organisation's dominant objective is to redress the grave injustices, deprivations and incursions into the health and well being of intergenerations of Aboriginal people resultant from the impact of removing Aboriginal people from families, Community and Country. It is a crucial aim and objective of this organisation to foster the integral nature of Aboriginal religious traditions, values, heritage and language in the sustaining or regaining of health and well being in Aboriginal communities.
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