What is meant by Makarrata?
What is meant by Makarrata?
Makarrata is a word in the Yolngu language meaning a coming together after a struggle, facing the facts of wrongs and living again in peace.
Where does the term Makarrata come from?
Makarrata is a word from the language of the Yolngu people in Arnhem Land. As Noel Pearson has explained: The Yolngu concept of Makarrata captures the idea of two parties coming together after a struggle, healing the divisions of the past.
What is Makarrata or the Makarrata process?
In Aboriginal culture, healing after a conflict begins with a process of truth-telling. The Yolngu Matha term for this is Makarrata — a peacemaking process. In Aboriginal ways of being, recognition of wrongs of the past sparks greater understanding on both sides of the conflict.
What is the Barunga Statement?
At the Barunga Festival in 1988, the Northern and Central Land Councils presented the late former Prime Minister Bob Hawke with the Barunga Statement, which called on the government to recognise the rights of Aboriginal Australians.
What is the great Australian silence?
Stanner’s lectures, in which he most notably coined the phrase “the great Australian silence” (referring to the erasure from history of the violent colonial encounters with Aboriginal Australians, and Indigenous history in general), have since been reprinted a number of times.
What does a voice to Parliament mean?
A First Nations Voice to Parliament. The voice to parliament would be a representative body giving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders a say in law and policy affecting them. Enshrined in the constitution, it would become an institution of lasting significance for First Nations and all Australians.
What is meant by a voice to Parliament?
What is the 2017 Uluru statement from the heart and what constitutional change is it calling for?
The Uluru Statement is an invitation from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to “walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future”. It calls for structural reforms including constitutional change to establish a Voice to Parliament enshrined in the Constitution.
What is the Barunga Statement and why is it still important?
Barunga and other festivals are important venues for the celebration and sharing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices and to provide opportunities for communities to engage with current social and political issues.
