A copy of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council’s media release on funding is available at the Information Desk. Dr Neil Johnston’s 470 page report to the Department of Finance found “a huge gap between policy intent and policy execution.”
Details of two events on positive change in the Australian Constitution are also available at the Information Desk. One is a Q & A on the Constitutional Recognition of Australia’s First Nations on Thursday 25th August at Avila College in Mt Waverley. The other on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Constitutional Recognition is being held on 1st September at the Aboriginal Advancement League in Thornbury.
A beautifully illustrated book will be released this week and provides a very important update of the current thinking about the intervention. The book articulates the views of Aboriginal Elders as well as those of other leading Australians. Elders are calling on the “People of Australia” to walk with them in their quest for justice. “Walk With Us” is available from ‘concerned Australians’, PO Box 281, East Melbourne, Vic 8002. Cost $15 plus $3 postage. Cheques payable to Michelle Harris.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury 