It must be quite a shock to the Govt to have its hand-picked youth 'roundtable' not only disprove the govt stereo-typing of them but then to recommend something the govt doesn't want to hear. Didn't anyone tell them that youth is a time of rebellion? ;-) Trudy ***************************************** ABC Newslink Kemp doesn't expect policies to come from roundtable Tuesday 9 March, 1999 (1:30pm AEDT) Federal Youth Affairs Minister David Kemp says it is unlikely the national youth roundtable will come up with a single policy to present to the Government. The comments come on the day the Roundtable has released its first recommendation on Government policy. Dr Kemp was addressing members of the roundtable on the second day of a three-day meeting in Canberra. He said he believes the 50 young people chosen for the forum are representative of Australia's youth and bring a wide variety of opinions to the group. Dr Kemp said he is not looking for an artificial consensus from the roundtable. "I suppose it would be pretty rare for one viewpoint to be truly representative of all young people in Australia, throughout Australia," he said. "As here on the roundtable, we recognise that there is a diversity of opinions and positions and the Government wants to hear them." Reconciliation The National Youth Roundtable has reported back to the Federal Government on its discussion of reconciliation. Reconciliation is the first discussion point on which Roundtable members have formed a single position and they have come up with seven essential steps to achieve it. They want the Government to acknowledge past injustices to indigenous people, along with their current impact, with most members also favouring a written apology. The Roundtable wants all Australians to be educated about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and for a balanced view of Australia's history to be presented. It says steps should also to be taken to improve Aboriginal health, education and justice, that indigenous custodianship of the land should be recognised and indigenous culture celebrated. ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
