The Territory Labor Government and RegionalLeaders of East Arnhem Land today signed an agreement to work towards morelocal decision making.
The Chief Minister Michael Gunner joinedthe Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, ARDS Aboriginal Corporation,Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation, Miwatj Health, the AustralianGovernment and the East Arnhem Regional Council in signing the Yolngu RegionLocal Decision Making Partnership.
The commitment marks a new and betterway of working together to properly recognise and support local decisionmaking, service delivery and empowerment in the Yolngu region.
All signatories havecommitted to community engagement, co-design, and collaborative decision makingwith the aim of helping Yolgnu communities realise their social and economicdevelopment aspirations.
Quotesfrom the Chief Minister, Michael Gunner
Thispartnership marks a new way of working together to properly recognise andsupport local decision making in the Yolngu region.
Itacknowledges that for over 50,000 years the Yolngu people of East Arnhem Landhave successfully maintained their language, customs, land and sea, song linesand laws and these systems still exist today.
Thepartnership signed today will simplify local and regional governance and ensuredecisions for Yolngu people are locally led.
Localdecisions are the best decisions.
