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Hannah's Reconciliation Banner

 

Hannah designed this and she and her mates put it together for Reconciliation Week at School. It is now displayed in the entrance to the school. The school sits on land previously used by the Kaurna People. Prior to Assembly there is always an acknowledgement of this link with the past.

Reconciliation Week is quite an important educational event in the school year and many activities are planned to teach kids respect for native Australians and their culture. There are a small number of aboriginal kids in the school, many you would not be able to identify. The school has a part time aboriginal worker, who comes in and works with the kids.

Fair Go for Aboriginal Communities?

From The Australian

Fifteen years after the Australian High Court's historic Mabo decision, an explosion of land-use agreements between Aborigines, mining companies and governments has failed to deliver significant outcomes for many of the indigenous people who signed them.

A five-year detailed examination of 45 contracts by Griffith University academic Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh has found that half the agreements were either "basket cases that should never have been entered into" or had delivered few cultural and monetary benefits to Aborigines.

Many agreements were poorly constructed deals that deprived Aborigines of a share in the unprecedented opportunity flowing from the resources boom.

Australia's wealthiest mining regions had the worst record and in many cases indigenous people were trading off rights to protect culturally important areas for limited, short-term benefits.