New alliance to drive Indigenous economic empowerment
A new alliance of committed Indigenous people, together with 天美传媒 National University (ANU), will work to establish comprehensive economic empowerment for First Nations people in Australia.
The alliance, the first of its kind in Australia, comes after two years of work and research on Indigenous economic empowerment undertaken by the ANU First Nations Portfolio.
Professor Peter Yu, Vice President (First Nations) at the ANU, said the First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance would 鈥渒ick start a long overdue and much-needed conversation in Australia鈥 that would place Indigenous economic prosperity at its heart.
鈥淎ustralia has never pursued comprehensive macro-economic policy for Indigenous peoples,鈥 Professor Yu, Vice-President First Nations at ANU, said. 鈥淎s a people, as a community, we are all too aware of the consequences of this policy vacuum.
鈥淲e cannot, as an implication of the referendum outcome, let the economic wellbeing of Indigenous communities fall by the wayside. The work to co-design national economic empowerment policies for First Peoples must start now.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 exactly what we will do with as the First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance.鈥
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