Taking the Middle Way ‐ A Sustainable Approach to Indigenous Development
As we learn the lessons of our past, it is becoming clear that Australia needs to take a middle way if we are to achieve sustainable Indigenous development.
This middle way would make the best of and combine both traditional and non-traditional worldviews and values for development.
This middle way would also bring together the best of rights-based and practical reconciliation approaches.
Finally, this middle way would set a new standard for Indigenous development, based upon an objective understanding of the essential foundations for stable human development, providing a sound and consistent framework for Indigenous development practice.
SGS Associate Director Paul Howorth presented ideas for such a framework, at an SGS Canberra seminar on 28 July 2009.
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Paul Howorth is an urban planner and barrister. His aim is to help to work out what are the most appropriate and practical things to do towards achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aspirations and wellbeing. Paul advises all levels of government, Indigenous organisations, regions and communities in Australia on issues specific to the development of Australia's Indigenous people.