Why, when we ask for a constitutionally enshrined voice to oversee our sovereign rights is it met with political obstruction? To stop myself losing hope, I focus on the positive stories of change in my own family and remind myself, though we named it in the 1990s, reconciliation has been happening for decades before that. For our family, education has been the key to breaking the deadlock. Education is the path out of poverty and the key to creating systemic change that better reflects our needs. For years people have attacked the “special treatment” of Indigenous students, but the numbers speak for themselves with year 12 attainment rates for Indigenous kids jumping a massive 20% in the past 10 years alone.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2021 17:31 UTC