accused of a cull<\/a> of protected dingos on K\u2019gari without consultation with Indigenous owners, required by the island\u2019s native title claim.<\/p>\nThe LNP has asked for a number of state electorates to be stripped of First Nations names.<\/p>\n
The Indigenous community has also questioned continuing representation in the Education and Health departments including changes to the role of the chief First Nations health officer.<\/p>\n
Creamer said he\u2019d heard it described, by a person in government, as \u201cproject invisibility\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an organised strategy and that is to ultimately eliminate, remove, reduce the Indigenous affairs, Indigenous initiatives, Indigenous voices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll never get rid of every Aboriginal person, and you could look at boards where Aboriginal people haven\u2019t been removed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think there\u2019s an element of removing the voices that might be seen to challenge the government\u2019s position, or the status quo, or aren\u2019t in the government\u2019s camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also pointed to the decision not to reappoint Gamilaraay woman Natalie Lewis to the Queensland Family and Child Commission, an an independent statutory body which provides advice for government on child safety system reform. She had served as one of two commissioners of the body for six years.<\/p>\n
Lewis said that she had asked the attorney general, Deb Frecklington, for her term to be extended in order to guarantee an Aboriginal voice would be at the table while government considered its response to a commission of inquiry. About half of Queensland children in out of home care are Indigenous.<\/p>\n
Queensland attorney general Deb Frecklington. Photograph: Jono Searle\/AAP<\/p>\n
The report, by lawyer Paul Anastassiou, was released on Wednesday. It recommends an end to the principle that adoption is a last resort for Indigenous children, against the urging of numerous Aboriginal organisations.<\/p>\n
She said that when decisions were made in the absence of the voices of Aboriginal people, \u201cit sends a very clear message about what level of priority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have in the state\u201d.<\/p>\n
Lewis said she had seen, since the change of government, \u201can abandonment of spaces where we have been pretty accustomed to having Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represented\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s visible. There is less and less representation, and there seems to be more of a mainstreaming approach,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Asked on Thursday why she had not renewed Lewis\u2019 term, Frecklington said \u201cher term was up and she was not reappointed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been very well reassured by the commissioner of the QFCC that the work that former commissioner Lewis was undertaking is continuing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Crisafulli government said its \u201capproach has been clear from the start \u2013 redirecting funds into practical, locally led projects which deliver tangible outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander discrete communities through our Closing the Gap Priorities Fund.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Crisafulli government is investing in critical infrastructure projects such as restoring clean drinking water supply to Woorabinda, delivering housing and increased home ownership opportunities across Indigenous communities, and supporting education programs such as the Buwu education program in Cherbourg.\u201d<\/p>\n
Labor shadow minister Leeanne Enoch said: \u201cYou don\u2019t need an internal secret code name like \u2018project invisibility\u2019 when the outcomes are so very obvious.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom abolishing Indigenous advisory structures to sidelining respected Indigenous leaders, this government is deliberately making First Nation voices less visible and sending Queensland backward\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland\u2019s LNP government has been accused of having a secret agenda \u2013 nicknamed \u201cproject invisibility\u201d by public servants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-720010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}