Backdoor privatisation and renewed trauma for Dharug custodians.
Dharug Strategic Management Group Ltd (DSMG) recommends complete rejection of the Bill as a poorly conceived and poorly drafted initiative that fails on too many criteria to allow even conditional support.
ABOVE: DSMG cares for the Blacktown Native Institution site in Oakhurst in Western Sydney. Sculpture: 'The flannel flowers remember children taken' by Sharyn Egan, artist, Nyoongar woman. Photo by Michael Mangold.
DSMG believes “a single Trust overseeing the public assets will simply be unable to build genuine and lasting trust with local communities and in the absence of existing relationships of trust and understanding with First Nations custodians, will fail to understand how profoundly our Nura builds community through belonging together in places.”
We invite you to read these impassioned words from First Nations custodians.
