The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (1990–2005) was the Australian Government body through which Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were formally involved in the processes of government affecting their lives,established under the Hawke government in 1990. A number of Indigenous programs and organisations fell under the overall umbrella of ATSIC.
Yarrabah is a coastal town and locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Yarrabah,Queensland,Australia. It is an Aboriginal community. In the 2021 census,the locality of Yarrabah had a population of 2,505 people.
The electoral district of Algester is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Algester,Parkinson,Hillcrest,Boronia Heights,Forestdale,Larapinta,Heathwood,Forest Lake,Doolandella and Pallara,as well as the Greenbank Military Range. It borders the electoral districts of Sunnybank,Stretton,Logan,Lockyer,Bundamba and Inala.
The Torres Strait Islander flag is the official flag of the Torres Strait Islanders,an Indigenous people of Australia. It was designed in 1992 by Bernard Namok,winning a local competition held by the Islands Coordinating Council,and was recognised by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in June 1992. It was granted official status in 1995 under the Flags Act 1953 along with the Australian Aboriginal flag.
Michael Hugh Lavarch AO is an Australian lawyer,educator and former politician. He was the Attorney-General for Australia between 1993 and 1996,and from 2004 to 2012 was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology (QUT),his alma mater,where he has been since then emeritus professor. As of August 2020 he is co-chair,with Jackie Huggins,of the Eminent Panel for the Indigenous treaty process in Queensland.
Yvette Maree D'Ath is an Australian politician. She is a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland representing the seat of Redcliffe. D'Ath is currently serving as Attorney-General and Minister for the Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence. She has previously held an extensive list of various ministerial and other governmental positions,including Minister for Justice and Leader of the House. She was previously a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the outer Brisbane seat of Petrie from 2007 to 2013.
Mark Lionel Furner is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of Australian Senate from 2008 to 2014,representing the state of Queensland. Since the 2015 Queensland state election,he has represented Ferny Grove in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Michael Alexander Mansell is a Tasmanian Aboriginal (Palawa) activist and lawyer who has campaigned for social,political and legal changes.
Curtis Warren Pitt is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since 2009,representing the district of Mulgrave. On 14 February 2015,he was sworn in as Treasurer of Queensland.
There have been 97 women in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since its establishment in 1860. Women have had the right to vote in the Assembly since 1905 and the right to stand as candidates since 1915.
Ian Bradley Walker is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal National member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2012 to 2017,representing the electorate of Mansfield. He was Minister for Science,Information Technology,Innovation and the Arts from 2013 to 2015 under Campbell Newman.
Mick Gooda is an Aboriginal Australian public servant. He has particularly served as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2009 to 2016 and as Co-Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory from 2016 to 2017. He is a descendant of the Gangulu people of Central Queensland.
Craig Daryl Crawford is an Australian politician currently serving as the Queensland Minister for Seniors and Disability Services and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships. He has been the Labor member for the Far North Queensland seat of Barron River in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015.
Shannon Maree Fentiman is an Australian politician. She has been the Labor member for Waterford in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015. Fentiman has served as the Minister for Women since 2020 and Minister for Health,Mental Health and Ambulance Services since 2023,following a cabinet reshuffle.
The Quandamooka people are Aboriginal Australians who live around Moreton Bay in Southeastern Queensland. They are composed of three distinct tribes,the Nunukul,the Goenpul and the Ngugi,and they live primarily on Moreton and North Stradbroke Islands,that form the eastern side of the bay. Many were pushed out of their lands when the English colonial government established a penal colony near there in 1824. Each group has its own language. A number of local food sources are utilised by the tribes.
Evelyn Ruth Scott was an Indigenous Australian social activist and educator.
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians refers to various proposals for changes to the Australian Constitution to recognise Indigenous Australians in the document. Various proposals have been suggested to symbolically recognise the special place Indigenous Australians have as the first peoples of Australia,along with substantial changes,such as prohibitions on racial discrimination,the protection of languages and the addition of new institutions. In 2017,the Uluru Statement from the Heart was released by Indigenous leaders,which called for the establishment of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament as their preferred form of recognition. When submitted to a national referendum in 2023 by the Albanese government,the proposal was heavily defeated.
The Third Palaszczuk Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland led by Annastacia Palaszczuk. Palaszczuk led the Labor Party to a majority victory in the 2020 state election and a third term in government since 2015. Cabinet's first meeting was held on 16 November 2020 in the Sunshine Coast suburb of Caloundra.
Albert Holt,usually referred to as Uncle Albert Holt,is an Aboriginal elder of the Bidjara people.
