{"id":6754,"date":"2020-05-28T15:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2020-05-28T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:15:19","slug":"labor-national-reconciliation-week-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/28\/labor-national-reconciliation-week-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR: NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week is National Reconciliation Week.
\nIt is bookended by two anniversaries important in our nation\u2019s history and progress.
\nThe anniversary of the referendum on 27 May 1967, when Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the Constitution to allow the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and ensure they were counted in the population.
\nAnd the anniversary of the High Court\u2019s Mabo decision delivered on 3 June 1992, which ruled that Aboriginal people held native title in the common law before the colonisation of Australia.
\nThis week also marks the 20th anniversary of the presentation to the Government of the final report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, and the public walks across bridges which attracted hundreds of thousands of people across the land.
\nNational Reconciliation Week is an opportunity for all Australians to reflect on our troubled history and how far we\u2019ve progressed down the path of resolving the differences\u00a0 between settler communities and First Nations peoples.
\nThere have been signs of progress in the past two decades, but it has been an incremental change going forward and much more still needs to be achieved.
\nIn light of recent events, it is fitting that the theme of the 2020 Reconciliation Week is, \u201cIn this Together\u201d.
\nThe pandemic has highlighted the resilience of First Nations communities.
\nSo this week is also an opportunity to consider how to make those communities, and our relationships, more resilient as we work towards the recovery of our nation.
\nThe fulfilment of the hopes embedded in the Uluru Statement from the Heart would go a long way towards Reconciliation.
\nLabor continues to support the basic principles of the Uluru statement \u2013 a Voice to Parliament enshrined in the Constitution, and a Makarrata Commission to examine our history since occupation and supervise a process of agreement-making with Australian governments.
\nNot until we have reached a true national settlement will we all be able to echo confidently the words of the Gurindji leader Vincent Lingiari in 1975, when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically poured dirt into his hands:\u00a0 \u201cWe are all mates now.\u201d
\nWe encourage all Australians to use this week to\u00a0learn more about Reconciliation<\/a>\u00a0and the practical steps they can take to realise it in their own way.
\nReconciliation is everyone\u2019s business. We are in this together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week is National Reconciliation Week. It is bookended by two anniversaries important in our nation\u2019s history and progress. The anniversary of the referendum on 27 May 1967, when Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the Constitution to allow the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and ensure they were counted … Continue reading “LABOR: NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK 2020”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}