24 September 2004
CATHOLICS FOR RECONCILIATION GROUP LAUNCHED
Catholics for Australian Reconciliation (CFAR) is a recently formed network of people in Melbourne which aims to place the issue of Reconciliation back on the national political agenda. Its members were called together by the Melbourne Commission for Justice, Development and Peace and the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry.
CFAR has joined with a range of church and welfare groups calling for aboriginal people to continue to be given primary responsibility for decisions affecting their health, wellbeing, education and living standards. The statement signed by about thirty groups also points out that the recent government decision to disband rather than reform the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) means that progress towards reconciliation in this country has reached a critical point with the current election.
A key agency supporting the statement is the Brotherhood of St Laurence who have also developed a policy analysis of the major parties on a range of social issues Advance Australia Fairly
CFAR has joined with a range of church and welfare groups calling for aboriginal people to continue to be given primary responsibility for decisions affecting their health, wellbeing, education and living standards. The statement signed by about thirty groups also points out that the recent government decision to disband rather than reform the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) means that progress towards reconciliation in this country has reached a critical point with the current election.
A key agency supporting the statement is the Brotherhood of St Laurence who have also developed a policy analysis of the major parties on a range of social issues Advance Australia Fairly
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