APY Council of Elders Mandate

photo by Sovereign Union

APY Council of Elders

http://www.anangu.com.au/

The chaos and wickedness of corruption and incompetence will be swept away by the cleansing fire of

accountability - finally and completely.

From the wreckage of fifty years of failure, waste and corrupt filth, will come an Anangu dreaming

phoenix about a real future.

Anangu are longing for these things. We can smell an election coming. There is going to be change. No

fate but what we make.

Anangu dreaming phoenix.

1. Under S 64A of the Constitution of South Australia we are entitled to local government. We don't have

it. APY looks like a local council but it has none of the necessary powers. $1.2 million in local

government funding is wasted on lawyers, consultants and trips to town.

We need a local council to be the principal service provider. Not a mish mash of waring agencies and

NGOs.

The prime minister was not joking about service delivery devolving to the lowest level of government.

We have known about changes to the MUNS funding for many years.

We won’t need to worry about this with a local council.

2. We need a western desert regional authority driving development for the whole western desert block;

including those parts in WA and NT. Like the Torres Straight Regional Authority.

3. We need APY governance to be drawn from properly elected community councils which should be

funded sub committees under the APY Act and constitution.

The communities are where the people live and where we need things like gender balance and police

checks.

Councils can appoint a delegate to a committee to advise about governance of how our land is

administered.

Councils can do real work in things like welfare reform, school attendance, housing, administration and

many other things. PUT ANANGU FAMILIES FIRST

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NO ONE WILL BE LEFT BEHIND

All of this can be done under a new APY constitution.

4. Once these things are done Anangu can have a real conversation about things like:

 Sub dividing communities out of the APY freehold in exchange for implementation of outstanding

reforms recommended by so many inquiries ie Bringing Them Home, Mulligan and Little Children Are

Sacred.

 Subdivide housing lots out of communities for individual ownership

 Dedicate roads and service delivery assets in exchange for them being done up, mobile phone

coverage ect

 Reform permits in communities and on roads to let the real world in; subject to having safeguards in

place

 Leverage future income streams from royalties in exchange for real progress now in areas like early

childhood and Reception to Year 3 education.

 There is so much more. We don't need to hang around waiting to die watching Toyota convoys,

listening to gossip about the latest bloodsucker debacle on APY.

So lets pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and start real conversations about positive things.

There is going to be a river of money flowing into the Northern Territory with the green paper reforms.

Anangu and the western desert block must not miss out.

George Kenmore

Traditional Owner Kenmore Park

APY Council of Elders Member

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