Tasmania Premier Will Hodgman

Australia Day, A Time To Reflect And Reset

Victor P Taffa

On Australia Day we come together and celebrate what is great about Australia and being Australian, Premier Hodgman said.

It is a time to reflect on what we have achieved as a great nation and re-commit to making Australia, and our state of Tasmania an even better place.

“This Australia Day we are looking to reset our relationship with Tasmanian Aboriginal people.” Premier Hodgman said.

The recently released draft management plan for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area provides a once in a generation opportunity to reset our relationship with Tasmanian Aboriginals.

“We are determined to ensure that the Tasmanian Aboriginal community is fully engaged in the process to bring about increased recognition of the cultural heritage of the area.” Premier Hodgman said.

“We also want a greater emphasis on cooperation with Tasmanian Aboriginal people in the management of the area in order to properly recognise, preserve and celebrate its global significance.”

“This discussion with the Tasmanian Aboriginal people will also include not just how to make the most of Aboriginal tourism opportunities, but also the possibility of increased management responsibility.”

“I am also personally committed to reopening discussions about land hand-backs. As a longstanding supporter of amending the Commonwealth Constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of this land, we are also considering a similar amendment to Tasmania’s Constitution Act.”

“I look forward to engaging with the Tasmanian Aboriginal people on these opportunities.” Premier Hodgman said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editor Victor P Taffa is a proud Australian who was not born in a foreign, distant land. In standing for Public Election, Victor P Taffa does not bow or scrape to any foreign leader or policies of foreign interests.

Unless people can write a new constitution that is better than what we have at present then it should be left alone.

In attempting to become a Republic, as was the case in 1999, unless republicans can write a new constitution and present that to the Australian people for deliberation then it should be left alone.

In becoming a nation in January 1901, it took at least 30 years of hard slog and debate. Building a Sydney Harbour Bridge took from 1815 until 1932, the Alice Springs-Darwin Railway took 120 years and Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs Railway took 100 years.

Tearing down things for a quick gain is not in everyone’s interests.