{"id":4609,"date":"2009-01-14T06:32:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/australia-unlikely-to-follow-recent-maori-political-success-says-cas-director\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:18","slug":"australia-unlikely-to-follow-recent-maori-political-success-says-cas-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/australia-unlikely-to-follow-recent-maori-political-success-says-cas-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia unlikely to follow recent Maori political success says CAS director"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s indigenous population must unite to ensure proper political representation according to Curtin’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CAS Director Anita Lee Hong said competitive, fractured clans were preventing Australia from replicating the success of the Maori party<\/a> in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

At their recent election the all-indigenous party won five seats and helped form the minority government under Labor’s John Key.<\/p>\n

But Associate Professor Lee Hong believed an Aboriginal party wouldn’t occur in her lifetime.<\/p>\n

‘Not until we get over competing and fighting amongst ourselves could anything happen,’ she said.<\/p>\n

‘In Canada they use the term lateral violence to describe tall poppy syndrome attacks on excelling members of clans.<\/p>\n

‘Most people are really possessive about their clans and looking after their own interests \u2013 even some representative members of [the former] Australian and Torres Strait Islander Committee (ATSIC) couldn’t get along.<\/p>\n

‘It would be great if we could look toward New Zealand and take bits from their experience that we could use but people need to want to negotiate.’<\/p>\n

Associate Professor Lee Hong said it was easier to increase the number of Aboriginal members of existing parties.<\/p>\n

‘We have Ben Wyatt who’s currently the opposition treasurer and is doing a fantastic job representing all the people of WA. Ben would be the ideal next leader of the [WA] Labor party. He’s an excellent role model for other indigenous people aspiring to enter local, state or federal politics, ‘ she said.<\/p>\n

The 1840 New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi, and 1975 recognition of the treaty, helped established Maori cohesion as Ms Lee Hong hopes the Federal Government apology<\/a> will among indigenous Australians.<\/p>\n

She said it would be fantastic to have indigenous parties and councils in parliament like our neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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