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Sky News AU
7 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘It's a tough journey': Labor ‘moving forward' with its work to close the gap
Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy claims the Labor government is 'moving forward' with its work to close the gap. 'Moving forward is exactly what our government has been doing and working with the Coalition of Peaks, working with organisations across Australia and with state and territory governments to try and close the gap,' Ms McCarthy told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. 'It's a tough journey.'
SBS Australia
02-08-2025
- Politics
- SBS Australia
Garma 2025: Minister for Indigenous Australians, Sentaor Malarndirri McCarthy
Minister for Indigenous Australians, Sentaor Malarndirri McCarthy sat down with NITV's John Paul Janke at 25th Garma Festival, following Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's keynote address.
Perth Now
30-07-2025
- Politics
- Perth Now
Grim data in dire Aussie issue
The country is severely behind in bringing outcomes for Indigenous Australians in line with their non-Indigenous counterparts, with only four of 19 Closing The Gap targets on track, a new report shows. The Productivity Commission, which monitors progress on the targets, revealed on Thursday that Australia was on track in boosting preschool enrolments, employment and two land rights goals. But the rest were either improving too slowly or worsening. Among those getting worse was adult imprisonment, with 2304 out of every 100,000 adults behind bars Indigenous. Other areas worsening were children in out-of-home care (50 out of every 1000 children), suicide rates (31 out of every 100,000 people) and children's educational development, with only 33.9 per cent on track. Productivity Commission chief Selwyn Button said in a statement the report 'shows that outcomes can't easily be reduced to a number'. 'The outcomes are all connected, each reflecting aspects of a broader system and the experiences of the people who have shared their stories,' Mr Button said 'What the outcomes in the agreement reflect most of all is the limited progress of governments in collectively acting on the priority reforms: sharing decision making and data with communities; strengthening the Aboriginal community controlled sector and changing the way governments operate.' He went on to say a recent 'independent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led review of the agreement and the PC's 2024 review both show that the transformational change that governments committed to is falling well short of what has been promised'. Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy is leading the Albanese government's efforts to improve outcomes for Australia's First Nations peoples. Martin Ollman / NewsWire Credit: News Corp Australia Asked about the report's findings on breakfast news, Treasurer Jim Chalmers echoed Mr Button, saying governments have not done enough. 'We need to do much better,' Mr Chalmers told the ABC. 'I think every member of the government, I think many Australians, would acknowledge that we need to do better and the reason why these reports are so important is because they make sure that we keep governments and the community more broadly up to the mark.' He praised Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy for 'working in her characteristically diligent way with all of the stakeholders, all of the communities to try to turn these numbers around'.
Sky News AU
24-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Pauline Hanson defends One Nation's protest against Acknowledgement of Country
Labor and Greens Senators have left the chamber as Pauline Hanson defended her party's protest of the Senate's Acknowledgement of Country ceremony. Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy described One Nation's protest as a 'deliberate act of disrespect.' Ms Hanson stood by her actions and statements; however, upon rising to speak, members of the Labor caucus, including Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, walked out of the room.
The Mainichi
06-07-2025
- General
- The Mainichi
Japan returns Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander remains to Australia
SYDNEY (Kyodo) -- Japan has returned the remains of 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to Australia in the country's first such repatriation, marking the latest move in a global movement to return the human remains of indigenous peoples once taken abroad for research or collection. The remains, taken in the 19th and 20th centuries and held by three Japanese research institutions, were handed over to representatives of the Australian government and Aboriginal communities in a recent ceremony at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, before being flown home, according to the government. At Australia's request, Japan's education ministry surveyed holdings of Indigenous Australian remains in the country and identified those held by the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University and the National Museum of Nature and Science. Seven of the 10 sets returned came from the University of Tokyo, including the remains of an ancestor of the Kaurna people of South Australia, whose community was represented at the handover ceremony. The government statement quoted Mitzi Nam as saying the return of the remains to country means "pathways to healing can start for all generations." "For many years the ancestral remains of Kaurna Old People were collected by museums and universities without consent, which caused great sadness and anger, and these feelings have been carried for generations," she said. Responding to a request for comment, the University of Tokyo said, "We have become keenly aware of the necessity to sincerely face the fact that research institutions around the world, including Japan, have kept the remains of Indigenous peoples." Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy said the first repatriation from Japan "reinforces the continuing shift by collecting institutions internationally to righting some of the past injustices carried out against First Nations people." According to the government, Australia has been working with collecting institutions across the globe to secure the return of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's remains for over 30 years, with more than 1,785 sets so far repatriated from overseas collections, including those kept in Japan. Of those, over 1,300 were from institutions and private holdings in Britain, including the Natural History Museum in London. Indigenous people's remains and personal belongings were taken from burial sites and communities across Australia, often without consent, for more than 250 years since Australia came under colonial rule in the late 18th century. Many were collected for so-called scientific research aimed at classifying human biological differences, often under 19th-century theories that placed Indigenous Australians at or near the bottom of a racial hierarchy used to justify European superiority and colonial domination. In other cases, remains were obtained by private collectors and sold, passing through many hands before ending up in museums. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have long called for the return of their ancestors' remains, with the movement initially gaining momentum in the 1970s and 1980s. Remains of indigenous peoples in other countries have also been taken from their homelands for research and other purposes. According to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo repatriated 10 remains of native Hawaiians to Hawaii last year. Remains of indigenous Ainu people in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main islands, had been taken abroad for anthropological research since before World War II. They have been found in Australia, Germany, Britain and the United States. In 2023, Australia returned four sets of Ainu remains to Japan, more than 80 years after they were acquired. (By Rachael Bayliss-Chan)
