New alliance to drive Indigenous economic empowerment

A new alliance of committed Indigenous people, together with The Australian National University (ANU), will work to establish comprehensive economic empowerment for First Nations people in Australia.

The alliance, the first of its kind in Australia, comes after two years of work and research on Indigenous economic empowerment undertaken by the ANU First Nations Portfolio.

Professor Peter Yu, Vice President (First Nations) at the ANU, said the First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance would “kick start a long overdue and much-needed conversation in Australia” that would place Indigenous economic prosperity at its heart.

“Australia has never pursued comprehensive macro-economic policy for Indigenous peoples,” Professor Yu, Vice-President First Nations at ANU, said. “As a people, as a community, we are all too aware of the consequences of this policy vacuum.

“We cannot, as an implication of the referendum outcome, let the economic wellbeing of Indigenous communities fall by the wayside. The work to co-design national economic empowerment policies for First Peoples must start now.

“That’s exactly what we will do with as the First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance.”

Read the full article at ANU Reporter.