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Just tuning in to @AusHumanRights Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture, ft Marni Tuala, moderated by @Dan_Bourchier cc @CroakeyNews

Warm Welcome to Country from Bundjalung Gadigal man Craig Madden: "Welcome, welcome, welcome. But it's important to remember, no matter where you are in our beautiful country of ours...it always was, it always will be Aboriginal land." #racism

EU Ambassador to Australia talks re new partnership with Australia on critical raw materials: has provision to "safeguard Indigenous peoples", including consultations prior to activities, prevention/minimisation of possible adverse impacts on rights, fair compensation. #racism

EU Ambassador to Australia Gabriele Visentin talking re recent visit to Broome, highlights importance of truth telling - bitter sweet to hear as new Qld govt confirmed y'day it would put an end to state's Path to Treaty, incl truth telling #racism

"Knowledge and respect benefit not just the local communities, but the world," says Ambassador Visentin, offering that we would not be facing the climate crisis we are if we had paid heed to First Nations' stewardship of Country

Education key to dismantling systemic racism: Ambassador Visentin: "Essential to incorporate Indigenous history, culture, perspectives into curricula at all levels. Schools should be spaces where First Nations students see their identities reflected, appreciated, respected"

. @Dan_Bourchier welcomes EU Ambassador's acknowledgement of the intersection between lived experience of First Nations people and land management and climate change. Also the importance of listening.

@Dan_Bourchier Now hearing from @HughdeKretser, new president of @AusHumanRights: "The founding of what became the Australian nation was steeped in racism."

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights . @HughdeKretser acknowledges awful overnight news that Qld is putting an end to Path to Treaty. He talks about importance of work in Victoria by @yoorrookjc and the work of @firstpeoplesvic

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights Now hearing from Kep Enderby orator Marni Tuala

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights Here's our recent @CroakeyNews story of Marni Tuala's work on the national consultation she led to develop Australia’s first National Anti-Racism Framework.

croakey.org/truth-telling-…

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews "Racism against First Nations people attempts to deny sovereignty, identity, belonging and connection." Marni Tuala.

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews Racism "is present in the reluctance for national truth telling. It is present in the resounding No vote to the referendum. It is present in our poorer health outcomes, higher incarceration rates and ever rising rates of suicide". Marni Tuala

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews However these statistics "are not the sum of our people. They are not the truth of our story, about our connection to Country, community and each other. They are not a reflection of our people...."

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews "They are an indictment on a country that fails to recognise our rights as First Nations people, that fails to commit to dismantling the systems that continue to oppress and cause harm."

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews Marni Tuala says the report on the national consultations with nearly 500 people across Australia will serve as a foundational document for the development of a national anti racism framework - which aims to create systemic change and equity

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews The most prolific form of racism discussed was systemic racism: form of racism that is pervasively and deeply embedded in systems, laws, policies and entrenched practices and beliefs that "produce condone and perpetuate widespread unfair treatment and oppression": Marni Tuala

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities want and need a national anti-racism solution that can't be manipulated or sidelined by governments, as was seen with the NT Intervention.

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews Marni Tuala also highlights new Qld Premier's decision to repeal Path to Treaty and shut down its Truth telling inquiry: "speaks volumes" re lack of commitment to acknowledging the history of this country and the continued impacts on First Nations people

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews The Voice referendum "opened the floodgates of bigotry, racism, intolerance, privilege, entitlement, white fragility and hate", says Marni Tuala. Nowhere off limits, staff rooms, supermarkets, hairdressers, schools, "no opinion too harsh, no comment considered racist"

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews Voice referendum shattered so many First Nations people, described as "the most public and politicised act of racial violence this generation has ever seen"

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews Marni Tuala talking about importance of Truth-telling, what it brings: allows First Nations voices to be heard, challenges the status quo and demands systemic reform.

@Dan_Bourchier @HughdeKretser @AusHumanRights @CroakeyNews Marni Tuala quotes Oodgeroo Noonuccal's A Song of Hope:

To our fathers' fathers, the pain, the sorrow; To our children's children, the glad tomorrow.

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Now moving into panel discussion:

What reforms could be introduced tomorrow that would have an immediate impact for First Nations people? @AusHumanRights' Katie Kiss talks re need to embed human rights practice in a way that helps to hold governments accountable, to strengthen Racial Discrimination Act

@AusHumanRights Katie Kiss also highlights power/possibility of UNDRIP, talks re the need for better education in Australia on history, human rights, the toll of colonisation, also laments the loss of Path to Treaty in Qld

@AusHumanRights . @LukeLPearson talks re @ozprodcom reports re Closing the Gap: governments failing to close the gap "because they aren't doing anything that would honestly be seen as a real attempt to place the gap".

@AusHumanRights @LukeLPearson @ozprodcom . @LukeLPearson says are so many things that could be done very quickly to address racism, eg #RaiseTheAge, UNDRIP, stopping police investigating police. Needs to stop govts from making it seem like they're trying v hard, "when very clearly they are not doing that".

@AusHumanRights @LukeLPearson @ozprodcom First priority for action for @RaceCommrAus would be to address racism in the justice system and policing, which manifests in deaths in custody: "You just cannot have First Nations people just continuing to die like this with no accountability whatsoever."

@AusHumanRights @LukeLPearson @ozprodcom @RaceCommrAus Marni Tuala has talked powerfully re role of the media in perpetuating racism and mis/disinformation, no accountability for the hate mongers. Also calls on allies to "stand up and support us in this".

. @LukeLPearson also on the media: stories are so consistently ill informed, negatively constructed but it's not just in what stories are told, who tells them, how they're told, who's included, who's excluded.....

@LukeLPearson There's also a bigger conversation, says @LukeLPearson, with MSM questioning capacity of culturally diverse journalists to be 'objective'; "built on the fallacy that white people are objective and that whiteness has a built in objectivity to it".

. @RaceCommrAus talks re need to build racial literacy, also to work on data: "the history of data collection in this country when it comes to First Nations people and other negatively racialised people is one of surveillance and punishment, not for objective of helping people".

@RaceCommrAus Marni Tuala, former @CATSINaM pres, talking re need for systemic reform to make health systems/services culturally safe, "not only for mob to access the services, but for mob to work in them".....

@RaceCommrAus @CATSINaM Have seen some progress in health, partic cultural safety now in code of conduct for nurses/ midwives, but need more: strengthening ACCOs & Aboriginal health workforce, embedding anti racism/cultural safety across health educ, health practice standards, health service settings

@RaceCommrAus @CATSINaM Katie Kiss talks re systemic/structural racism in justice system: have to stop lowering age of criminal responsibility and punishing people for disadvantage and poverty: need justice reform "that actually benefits our people"

@RaceCommrAus @CATSINaM . @LukeLPearson says racial literacy in Australia is "painfully low", talks re Teju Cole's framing of 'white saviour industrial complex'. Learning re culture, listening to truth telling - "that's not an outcome, it's a pre-requisite"

@RaceCommrAus @CATSINaM @LukeLPearson Here's Marni Tuala's report: Dismantling systemic racism – perspectives from First Nations peoples (webinar will go up online in coming days)

humanrights.gov.au/about/news/med…

@RaceCommrAus @CATSINaM @LukeLPearson pls unroll @threadreaderapp