Essay On Reconciliation In Australia

Since the British colonization of Australia, the basic rights of indigenous Australian, including the land rights were despised, or even violated, by British settlements in many ways. Although the government’s policies have started to change from 1960s in order to protect human rights of indigenous people, the questions of reconciliation between them and Australian government have not been solved by now. In this essay, I will clarify Australia’s effort to make the reconciliation with indigenous citizens in last several decades, then will analyse the problem which prevents people from reconciliation.
The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR) was established on 2 September 1991, by approval of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991 (CAR). In the …show more content…
Compared with first strategic plan 1992-1995, aimed at the increasing opportunities of communication and consultation to advance the process of reconciliation, its final strategic plan places more emphasis on more substantial activities, such as making documents and encouraging people’s movement for reconciliation. Some people recognise that the process of reconciliation, while the Council was at work, succeeded significantly, in terms of enacting reconciliation as a ‘community movement’. In the evidence of it, on May 28, 2000, more than 250,000 people joined the Corroboree Walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge, in order to support the movement of reconciliation with indigenous people (Australian). In its final report, which was submitted to the Prime Minister and the Commonwealth Parliament, the CAR recommends Parliaments to change the Constitution to grant the rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and to make it unlawful to discriminate against people by race. In addition to that, it also encourages them to enact legislation to unite all Australians and resolve issues of