Indigenous Public Policy - Closing the Rhetorical Gap - SGS Seminar Canberra March 2011
SGS's March Canberra seminar heard perspectives on current Indigenous Public Policy from three key speakers.
Dr Jeff McMullen, AM - journalist, author, film-maker,Trustee of the Jimmy Little Foundation, and Director of AIME, or Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, presented recent correspondence with the Australian government, in which he raised multiple issues of concern about the Northern Territory Emergency Response and its effects on communities.
Leah Armstrong discussed Yarnteen - a not for profit company which provides Aboriginal people with training and employment opportunities -as an example of a successful Indigenous organisation, and the findings from the Indigenous Community Governance Project. She also drew conclusions about the fundamental issue of respectful relationships, and the work Reconciliation Australia is doing in building better relationships between A&TSI and other Australians. Leah is Chief Executive Officer of Reconciliation Australia, Executive Director of Yarnteen and holds several Board positions including Indigenous Business Australia, National Policy Commission on Indigenous Housing, Australian Indigenous Minority Suppliers Council.
Ed Wensing (Assoc. Director SGS Economics and Planning) provided insights into two recent projects SGS has undertaken with Aboriginal organisations; one involving the development of a program logic and a monitoring, evaluation and reporting framework for an important Aboriginal health project between the Jimmy Little Foundation and Medicines Australia. The other, an exercise in managing change in one of Australia's largest and wealthiest Aboriginal organisations, the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.
Read Dr Jeff McMullen's presentation
Read Leah Armstrong's presentation
Read Ed Wensing's presentation on project for Jimmy Little Foundation
Read Ed wensing's presentation on project for NSW Aboriginal Land Council
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