Indigenous leaders meet in WA's north to discuss the way forward on closing the gap in the wake of the failed Voice to Parliament referendum.
Leaders from First Nations communities across northern WA have gathered for the annual Yule River Bush Meeting .
First Nations leaders met on Thursday on Karriyarra Country, near Port Hedland in the Pilbara, for the second day of the Yule River Bush Meeting. It comes at a time when communities are looking for "real change" and "improvement in current systems", according to Natalie Parker, the regional committee chair of YMAC Pilbara, a native title representative body for the Yamatji and Pilbara regions.
"We need to be resourced to make sure that we can support government in working with those communities," he said.The meeting focused in on the Call to Action Statement — a goal-setting document formulated at last year's meeting and refined through community consultation over the past 12 months.Mr Lockyer said that although government played an important role in advancing those goals, solutions should come mostly from the community-based leadership group.
"You come in, you do your two to three year stint — and most of the time when they come into our community there's no knowledge, there's no understanding of our culture," she said.Ms Button said Aboriginal teachers needed to be given more support, and recruitment efforts needed to be stepped up. However, there was a sense of frustration following the meeting, with some attendees feeling their concerns were not adequately addressed.The representatives of the WA government were joined by Greens Senator for WA Dorinda Cox, who said the community was still "reeling" in the wake of the Voice to Parliament referendum."What people are looking for now is some hope, and some solutions to the problems that still exist," she said.
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