“In devolving decision making, Labor will be guided by the principles outlined in the Aboriginal Peak Organisation’s Partnership Principle, which recognises the critically important role that control over life circumstances plays in improving Indigenous peoples lives.
Control is also central to a further fundamental determinant of our health and wellbeing—that of culture.
Culture is a universal aspect of human societies that gives meaning and value to individual and collective existence.”
Aboriginal Peak Organisation’s Partnership Principle
” The new NT Labor government will allow remote Northern Territory schools to choose to implement the Direct Instruction teaching method as part of a broader overhaul aimed at giving local people more control over their affairs.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner will also reinstate so-called community cabinets, whereby all ministers and departmental heads periodically conduct government business in the bush to ensure direct exposure to remote communities’ views.
Visiting Numbulwar, on the Gulf of Carpentaria…
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