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| Bill Shorten calls for commonwealth lead on reparation for stolen generations – politics live | Bill Shorten calls for commonwealth lead on reparation for stolen generations – politics live |
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| Shorten to Turnbull: Why is the prime minister holding the future of the National Disability Insurance Scheme hostage to his cuts to families, carers, pensioners and young people? | |
| It is hard to imagine more gall than we’ve got from the Leader of the Opposition. There he is - he told Peter Van Onselen that the NDIS was good political motivation, good stuff, he said, and we’ve all signed up, we all supported it, as Prime Minister I’ve signed up every jurisdiction. But there’s a little thing the Labor Party forgot, Mr Speaker - it’s paying for it! | |
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| Nick Xenophon has said nyet to supporting the omnibus savings/childcare bill, sending the social services minister, Christian Porter, back to the drawing board. The Coalition will continue negotiating with the crossbench, given Labor and the Greens have also ruled out support. Barnaby Joyce says notwithstanding Xenophon’s decision, the Turnbull iteration has got more through than the Abbott iteration. | Nick Xenophon has said nyet to supporting the omnibus savings/childcare bill, sending the social services minister, Christian Porter, back to the drawing board. The Coalition will continue negotiating with the crossbench, given Labor and the Greens have also ruled out support. Barnaby Joyce says notwithstanding Xenophon’s decision, the Turnbull iteration has got more through than the Abbott iteration. |
| Malcolm Turnbull has presented the Closing the Gap report. The target to improve life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by 2031 is not on track to be met. The target to halve the gap in child mortality by 2018 is also not on track, despite longer-term improvements in child mortality rates between 1998 and 2015. Just one of the seven Closing the Gap targets – halving the gap in Year 12 attainment by 2020 – is on track to be met. | Malcolm Turnbull has presented the Closing the Gap report. The target to improve life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by 2031 is not on track to be met. The target to halve the gap in child mortality by 2018 is also not on track, despite longer-term improvements in child mortality rates between 1998 and 2015. Just one of the seven Closing the Gap targets – halving the gap in Year 12 attainment by 2020 – is on track to be met. |
| Turnbull also committed to an Indigenous commissioner in the Productivity Commission and $50m to assess and research Indigenous policy. | Turnbull also committed to an Indigenous commissioner in the Productivity Commission and $50m to assess and research Indigenous policy. |
| Bill Shorten has called for the commonwealth to take the lead on reparation for the stolen generations of Indigenous children removed from their families under government policy. His senator Pat Dodson has addressed the Labor caucus and Labor has added the Indigenous flag and a welcome to country into their party room process. | Bill Shorten has called for the commonwealth to take the lead on reparation for the stolen generations of Indigenous children removed from their families under government policy. His senator Pat Dodson has addressed the Labor caucus and Labor has added the Indigenous flag and a welcome to country into their party room process. |
| Cory Bernardi’s new Australian Conservatives party could win support from 18% of Coalition voters according to the latest Guardian Essential Report, which also shows the two major party leaders in the doldrums with voters. | Cory Bernardi’s new Australian Conservatives party could win support from 18% of Coalition voters according to the latest Guardian Essential Report, which also shows the two major party leaders in the doldrums with voters. |
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| Meanwhile, in the Senate the Greens have ambushed the Coalition over its refusal to produce documents into a commonwealth investment in the Roe Highway. | Meanwhile, in the Senate the Greens have ambushed the Coalition over its refusal to produce documents into a commonwealth investment in the Roe Highway. |
| The Roe Highway is looming as a key issue in the Western Australian state election. | The Roe Highway is looming as a key issue in the Western Australian state election. |
| The federal government has a policy that for any commonwealth investment of more than $100m they need to produce a business case and a full cost-benefit analysis. | The federal government has a policy that for any commonwealth investment of more than $100m they need to produce a business case and a full cost-benefit analysis. |
| The Greens want the analysis of this road project but the government have refused even though the Senate has ordered the Coalition (on the numbers) to produce the documents. | The Greens want the analysis of this road project but the government have refused even though the Senate has ordered the Coalition (on the numbers) to produce the documents. |
| $1.2bn of your funds are going to fund this environmental obscenity, says Greens senator Scott Ludlam. | $1.2bn of your funds are going to fund this environmental obscenity, says Greens senator Scott Ludlam. |
| The Greens “stopped the clock” at 12.30pm, and Senate business has been given over to a statement by the finance minister, Mathias Cormann. | The Greens “stopped the clock” at 12.30pm, and Senate business has been given over to a statement by the finance minister, Mathias Cormann. |
| (Stopping the clock means the Senate won’t be dealing with government business or anything else from 12.30pm at least until they hit the question time marker at 2pm.) | (Stopping the clock means the Senate won’t be dealing with government business or anything else from 12.30pm at least until they hit the question time marker at 2pm.) |
| The government has said it is a matter of commercial in confidence. | The government has said it is a matter of commercial in confidence. |
| Ludlam says bollocks. Just redact any sensitive bits so we can see the rest. | Ludlam says bollocks. Just redact any sensitive bits so we can see the rest. |
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| Bill Shorten: | Bill Shorten: |
| It’s time for truth-telling. Our ancestors drove the First Peoples of this nation from their Bora Ring. We scattered the ashes of their campfires. We fenced the hunting grounds, we poisoned the water holes. We distributed blankets infected with diseases we knew would kill. And there has been plenty of damage done in different ways, with better intentions. By the belief that forced assimilation was the only way to achieve equality. | It’s time for truth-telling. Our ancestors drove the First Peoples of this nation from their Bora Ring. We scattered the ashes of their campfires. We fenced the hunting grounds, we poisoned the water holes. We distributed blankets infected with diseases we knew would kill. And there has been plenty of damage done in different ways, with better intentions. By the belief that forced assimilation was the only way to achieve equality. |
| It’s time to write a new story. And it is a story of belonging. Because Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people belong to a proud tradition, to nations who fought the invaders, brave people who fought and died for their country as Passchendaele, Kokoda and Long Tan, now in the Middle East and Afghanistan, who have fought and continued to fight for justice, for land, for an apology, for recognition. | It’s time to write a new story. And it is a story of belonging. Because Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people belong to a proud tradition, to nations who fought the invaders, brave people who fought and died for their country as Passchendaele, Kokoda and Long Tan, now in the Middle East and Afghanistan, who have fought and continued to fight for justice, for land, for an apology, for recognition. |
| You belong to a tradition of sporting brilliance in the face of racism from opponents, teammates, administration and even spectators. You belong to humanity’s oldest and most continuous culture. You do not belong in a jail cell for an offence that carries an $80 fine. You do not belong strapped into a chair with a hood on your head. You do not belong on the back of a windowless van away from your family and loved ones. You do not belong in a bureaucrat’s office, begging for money. You do not belong on the streets with nowhere to go. You belong here. As members of parliament, as leaders of this nation, you belong in the constitution, recognised at last. | You belong to a tradition of sporting brilliance in the face of racism from opponents, teammates, administration and even spectators. You belong to humanity’s oldest and most continuous culture. You do not belong in a jail cell for an offence that carries an $80 fine. You do not belong strapped into a chair with a hood on your head. You do not belong on the back of a windowless van away from your family and loved ones. You do not belong in a bureaucrat’s office, begging for money. You do not belong on the streets with nowhere to go. You belong here. As members of parliament, as leaders of this nation, you belong in the constitution, recognised at last. |
| You belong in schools, teaching and learning. You belong on construction sites, building homes, gaining skills. You belong on country, caring for land. You belong here, growing up, healthy, raising your children in safety, growing old with security. You belong here, strong in your culture and kinship and language and country. You belong here, equal citizens in this great country, equal partners in our common endeavour. This is your place. This is our place. | You belong in schools, teaching and learning. You belong on construction sites, building homes, gaining skills. You belong on country, caring for land. You belong here, growing up, healthy, raising your children in safety, growing old with security. You belong here, strong in your culture and kinship and language and country. You belong here, equal citizens in this great country, equal partners in our common endeavour. This is your place. This is our place. |
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| Bill Shorten wants a justice target included in the Close the Gap report and a new priority on stronger families, adding a target for reducing the number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care. | Bill Shorten wants a justice target included in the Close the Gap report and a new priority on stronger families, adding a target for reducing the number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care. |
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| Bill Shorten calls for commonwealth lead on reparation for stolen generation | Bill Shorten calls for commonwealth lead on reparation for stolen generation |
| Shorten references Paul Keating’s Redfern speech, when he asked, how would we feel if it were done to us? | Shorten references Paul Keating’s Redfern speech, when he asked, how would we feel if it were done to us? |
| Shorten also pays tribute to Kevin Rudd, who is in the gallery, for his apology. | Shorten also pays tribute to Kevin Rudd, who is in the gallery, for his apology. |
| And he raises the prospect of reparation to the children who were removed from their homes, known as the stolen generations. | And he raises the prospect of reparation to the children who were removed from their homes, known as the stolen generations. |
| We know that many members of the stolen generation are still living with the pain of their removal, the harm done by years of having their story rejected and denied. It was why I applaud the state governments of New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania, already taking steps towards providing reparations to families torn apart by the discrimination of those times. Decency demands that we now have a conversation at the commonwealth level about the need for the commonwealth to follow the lead on reparations. This is the right thing to do. It’s at the heart of reconciliation, telling the truth, saying sorry, and making good. | We know that many members of the stolen generation are still living with the pain of their removal, the harm done by years of having their story rejected and denied. It was why I applaud the state governments of New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania, already taking steps towards providing reparations to families torn apart by the discrimination of those times. Decency demands that we now have a conversation at the commonwealth level about the need for the commonwealth to follow the lead on reparations. This is the right thing to do. It’s at the heart of reconciliation, telling the truth, saying sorry, and making good. |
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| Bill Shorten calls for a cross-cultural approach such as the use of Aboriginal healers for health assessments or the Koori court in Parramatta which uses diversionary sentencing as an alternative to jail. | Bill Shorten calls for a cross-cultural approach such as the use of Aboriginal healers for health assessments or the Koori court in Parramatta which uses diversionary sentencing as an alternative to jail. |
| And if these young people muck up, the elders address them with that straight-talking freedom of family and culture, a frankness and reassurance that even the judge can learn from. There at this court, the police, the prosecution and defence show sensitivity to culture, yet still deal with a young person who has behaved in an antisocial way. This cross-cultural approach enhances the system. Bringing Aboriginal cultures to the centre, allowing justice to be done without diminishing the individual or denying identity, | And if these young people muck up, the elders address them with that straight-talking freedom of family and culture, a frankness and reassurance that even the judge can learn from. There at this court, the police, the prosecution and defence show sensitivity to culture, yet still deal with a young person who has behaved in an antisocial way. This cross-cultural approach enhances the system. Bringing Aboriginal cultures to the centre, allowing justice to be done without diminishing the individual or denying identity, |
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