Indigenous Rights and Empowerment

This new network will be an Australian Government Initiative. What it will represent is the re-education of children to be more accepting and understanding of culture. The underlining implication of this will be to give more indigenous Australians the means to become members of Parliament in the future. An idea for the network slogan is:

The following is a conceptual/experimental logo for the Dreamt Network:

Language, cultural and spiritual identity (articles 11–13)

Culture is important to our peoples. These rights protect our cultures and identities. This means we have:

• The right to practice and revitalise our cultures and to have our cultural property protected.
• The right to our religious and spiritual traditions.
• The right to our languages, histories and ways of thinking about the world.

Education, information and employment (articles 14–17)

Education, information and employment rights will empower our communities. We have:

• The right to access the same standards of education as all other Australians.
• The right to culturally appropriate education in our own language.
• The right to ensure that media and public information reflects our cultures and our diversity in a dignified way.
• The right to the same employment rights as other Australians.

http://www.hreoc.gov.au/declaration_indigenous/declaration_short_version.html

As can be seen from my research above, Aborigines are expected to be given equal rights in the eyes of Australians and the Government. Therefore, it makes sense for them to have a more equal representation in Parliament. By children understanding where all these cultures came from at an early age, they see fitting to vote for an indigenous candidate in future when the time is right and policies can correct.