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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (17 February) . . Page.. 287 ..
Reforms in the ACT Children and Young People Act 1999 will ensure that the racial, ethnic and cultural identity of Indigenous young people is recognised and preserved. This Act incorporates the Indigenous Child Placement Principle.
Strategic plans are being developed in the areas of Indigenous employment, health, education, justice, housing and training. These plans will help address the underlying issues related to the Bringing them home recommendations.
An Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee will be appointed to provide a forum for liaison and consultation on Indigenous justice issues.
A Regional Centre for Social and Emotional Wellbeing will be established, in conjunction with Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service and the ATSIC Queanbeyan Regional Council.
The Indigenous Education Unit within the Department of Education and Community Services has been restructured.
Under the new model, Canberra has been divided into six zones, and Indigenous Education Workers (IEWs) work with schools to develop and monitor individual education plans for the Indigenous students in their zone.
Mr Speaker, the Government is proud of its achievements in implementing the Bringing them home Report recommendations.
I commend the 1998/99 Implementation Report to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MS CARNELL (Chief Minister) (4.13): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the State of the Territory Report. I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Mr Speaker, I ask similarly for leave to have the speech incorporated in Hansard, in the interests of time.
Leave granted.
The speech read as follows:
In tabling the State of the Territory Report today, I'm very pleased to say that this report is the first of its kind in Australia. The Government has produced this report because the sound economic position we have now
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