The LGAQ has called for Queensland’s 17 Indigenous councils to help coordinate state and federal efforts to reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage.
“Now is an ideal time for new collaborative models to be set in place,” said LGAQ President Paul Bell. “We have good and competent local representatives – listen to them, engage with them.”
Cr Bell’s comments were made after the release of the Australian Government’s report on the Strategic Review of Indigenous Expenditure which, he said, showed that policies aimed at reducing Indigenous disadvantage needed to be properly targeted to local needs.
“Mayors and councillors in those communities are democratically elected to represent the interests of those community members,” he said. “They live and work in the community they represent.”
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