Co-designing the models and processes for an Indigenous Voice to Tasmanian government and parliament.
Reconciliation provides benefit to Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples and other Australians. This project will increase Aboriginal Tasmanian self-determination rights to engage with research design and outcomes that deliver wellbeing to whole communities and populations through cultural legitimacy of Indigenous knowledges and practices. A benefit for Tasmanian Aboriginal communities the production of a model Indigenous Voice to Tasmanian Parliament to reduce Aboriginal Tasmanian disadvantage in civic engagement. The model will increase the ways in which plural opinions are valued through Indigenous leadership and flow outwards through mainstream governance and management of public policy.
Additional benefit will come from showing to the general public how a relationship is strengthened through capacity-building in government to accommodate Indigenous forms of governance and management, such as an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. This will increase the confidence and legitimacy of decision-making processes in government and Aboriginal Tasmanian communities that work towards mutual benefit through reconciliation.