Key Issues

Key Issue 1

Understanding Country - the importance of land and sea in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies.

Key Issue 2

Improving Relationships - between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the wider community.

Key Issue 3

Valuing Cultures - valuing the unique Indigenous cultures of Australia.

Key Issue 4

Sharing History - incorporating Indigenous Australia's part in Australian history.

Key issue 5

Addressing Disadvantage - as experienced by many Indigenous Australians with respect to health, housing, employment.

Key Issue 6

Custody levels - reducing the high rates of incarceration of Indigenous Australians.

Key Issue 7

Destiny - greater opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to control their destinies.

Key Issue 8

Formal Document - agreement on whether the process of reconciliation would be advanced by a document or documents of reconciliation.

CAR produced a pamphlet Reconciliation and its Key Issues, and a booklet on each issue, for distribution and use by schools and study groups and for informing the general public.