Pilbara Aboriginal leaders meet to discuss local issues
First Nations leaders in Western Australia’s north are meeting to discuss action on key social, economic, and political goals for communities in the mining rich region. The annual Yule River Bush meeting is the largest gathering of indigenous leaders held in the Pilbara since the rejection of the National Voice to Parliament.
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00:00Here today on Garyarra Country in the Pilbara, Indigenous leaders from around the region
00:06are meeting to discuss issues affecting them and their communities and the solutions needed
00:12to address them.
00:13Those are coming in the areas of health, housing, education, community safety and well-being.
00:19The focus of today's event is the Call to Action Statement, which was formulated at
00:23last year's meeting and has been refined over the past 12 months.
00:27It sets goals in both the long and short term, seeking to address those issues on the ground
00:31here in the Pilbara, overlapping with many of the Closing the Gap targets.
00:37This meeting place here at Yule River, 1600 kilometres north of Perth, is a significant
00:41one.
00:42It has ties to the 1946 Pilbara strike and the land rights movement that started in the
00:471970s.
00:48Political representatives have today been asked to join the meeting, hearing from community
00:53members about what those issues are and what role the government should play in addressing
00:58them.
00:59Green Senator for WA, Dorinda Cox, has been joined by two members of the WA Parliament,
01:04who have responded to questions from the community about direct issues that are affecting them,
01:10including gaps in accessing health care and issues in communities.