Long Road

Last week Australia finished up its “2020 summit,” a sport of big national think tank on a range of issues. Here are the questions, ideas and stats that informed the “Options for the Future of Indigenous Australia” session. I’m embedding their powerpoint as a slide show here. But you can get it yourself on the 2020 summit site here, along with the initial report, here.

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Also of interest is the Creative Australia session as it singled out Indigenous arts and as well as heritage movements that include digitizing national collections. The initial report states that:

Creativity is central to Australian life and Indigenous culture is the core to this. To measure, document and leverage the strengths of this culture, to articulate our role and improve protection of indigenous culture, language and heritage through a National Indigenous Cultural Authority.

Of course who will make up this new group is anyone’s guess. But there is a glimmer of hope here that there could be some national funds and importantly infrastructure aimed at Indigenous heritage projects which could include digital projects.