Interim report / Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
- Bib ID:
- 6539444
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Australia. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, author
- Description:
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- Canberra, ACT : Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, July 2014
- ©2014
- viiii, 46 pages ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781760100315
- Series:
- Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 2014, no. 149.
- Summary:
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"On 2 December 2013 the 44th Parliament agreed to re-establish the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to inquire into and report on steps that can be taken to progress towards a successful referendum on Indigenous constitutional recognition.The resolution establishing the committee in the 44th Parliament states that: Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples be appointed to inquire into and report on steps that can be taken to progress towards a successful referendum on Indigenous constitutional recognition, and in conducting the inquiry, the committee work to build a secure strong multi-partisan parliamentary consensus around the timing, specific content and wording of referendum proposals for Indigenous constitutional recognition; and consider the creation of an advisory group whose membership includes representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to assist the work of the committee. The recommendations of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians; and mechanisms to build further engagement and support for the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across all sectors of the community, and taking into account and complementing the existing work being undertaken by recognise the committee present to Parliament an interim report on or before 30 September 2014 and its final report on or before 30 June 2015. This is the first interim report by the committee to the 44th Parliament. In preparing this interim report, the committee sets out possible options for constitutional change and issues that have been raised with and considered by the committee so far." -- [From introduction]
- Notes:
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- Mr Ken Wyatt AM MP, Chair.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Australia. Parliament. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Recognition Bill 2012
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Law - Constitutional law - Constitutional reform
- Research
- Race relations - Reconciliation
- Australia -- Race relations
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Wyatt, Ken, 1952-
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- © Commonwealth of Australia 2014
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