Election of Indigenous Representation

With all the attention focused on Indigenous people in crisis, with government appointed consultants, committees, task forces and out spoken self proclaimed Indigenous leaders. They are all ignoring the most important issue, the right to vote our own representation body.
At no time do the respected Indigenous Leaders bring demarcately elected vote of representation of Indigenous people back on the table.
They are feeding off the kudos of self importance and forgetting to talk to the grass roots, for the exception of government funding trips to confirm they involved in breaching human rights of their own people.

These Elder’s of such are the same people that presided on ATSIC and were criticized by the government for not doing their jobs. Now the same government has them representing Indigenous people issues all over again. If this is not setting the Indigenous Nations to fail once again, what is?

It is time for freely elected Indigenous Representation to be brought to the forefront of discussion. The Indigenous representation we as a nation’s have is an insult, nothing better then puppets of the government.
There are hard core questions of our rights to asked, not just comment’s of putting fires out the government has started.

The state and federal government continue to ignore indigenous rights and go along with old club of Indigenous leader’s that complain about treatment of our own people and still sit on advisory bodies?

The same bodies that oversee ill-conceived, on the run policy based on hype and political positioning for themselves. Indigenous people need independent representation.

A new approach to Indigenous affairs is needed, yet I see them going down the same line of listening to out of touch Individuals. Its time for a change, there is new blood and new ideas. Indigenous people are restricted in opinions that are not theirs. I did not elect the current Indigenous voice to represent me and will not accept their government empowerment to do so.