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- Title
Recalibrating the machinery of government for Indigenous affairs: Towards a new policy design for self‐determination.
- Authors
Perche, Diana
- Abstract
Relations between First Nations and the Commonwealth government are in a parlous state in Australia, and the Commonwealth government's response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart has prompted much criticism from First Nations leaders. This paper examines the impact of one of the significant changes made by the Abbott government, the machinery of government change placing Indigenous Affairs into the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, with a Minister for Indigenous Affairs sitting in Cabinet. It considers the rationale for the move and explores the implications of the loss of a 'shadow team' function and the placement of a sensitive portfolio in the highly politicised environment of a central agency. Given that the current governance arrangements are not 'fit for purpose', the paper notes the call by First Nations organisations in the Redfern Statement for the establishment of a stand‐alone Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, and recommends adoption of this as a partial government response to demands for First Nations self‐determination. This paper examines the impact of the machinery of government changes which placed Indigenous Affairs into the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in 2013, and considers the restoration of a stand‐alone Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs as a partial government response to demands for First Nations self‐determination.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIAN politics &; government; GOVERNMENT policy; INDIGENOUS Australians; DECISION making in political science; SOCIAL movements; AUTONOMY (Psychology); DAVIS, Megan; HUGGINS, Jackie; CHILD protection services
- Publication
Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2018, Vol 77, pS28
- ISSN
0313-6647
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8500.12356