Responsibility for driving outcomes in Aboriginal Affairs sits across multiple governments, stakeholders and sectors. Collaborative action supports increased capacity, reduces costs and fragmentation, and consolidates place-based responses, leading to improved outcomes for Aboriginal South Australians. This Action Plan supports improved coordination across policy, program and service delivery, and implements tailored local solutions through a place-based, cooperative response.
These actions will:
- Improve the accessibility of government services
- Deliver better services through a place-based approach
- Enable collaboration between government and Aboriginal people.
Establish a Custody Notification Service
Lead agency: Attorney-General's Department
Lead minister: Attorney-General
Deliverable: Work with ALRM and SAPOL to establish a Custody Notification Service and conclude funding arrangements with the Commonwealth Government.
Contributes to: Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses
Status: Completed
Engage an Aboriginal Witness Assistance Officer
Lead agency: Attorney-General's Department
Lead minister: Attorney-General
Deliverable: Provide support, education and awareness to victims and witnesses involved in criminal prosecutions, and in particular Aboriginal victims. The role will also educate staff in the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions about cultural and community considerations in matters where Aboriginal people are involved.
Contributes to: Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses
Status: On track
Improve Online access to by-laws pertaining to Aboriginal lands
Lead agency: Attorney-General's Department
Lead minister: Attorney-General
Deliverable: Provide support, education and awareness to victims and witnesses involved in criminal prosecutions, and in particular Aboriginal victims. The role will also educate staff in the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions about cultural and community considerations in matters where Aboriginal people are involved.
Contributes to: Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses
Status: On track
Create a new category of burial place for the burial of Aboriginal ancestral remains
Lead agency: Attorney-General's Department
Lead minister: Attorney-General
Deliverable: Amend the Burial and Cremation Act 2013 to facilitate the burial of ancestral remains that are repatriated or discovered during the course of ground-disturbing works.
Contributes to: Building strong and capable Aboriginal communities
Status: On track
Energy concessions for remote Aboriginal communities
Lead agency: Department for Human Services
Lead minister: Minister for Human Services
Deliverable: Develop and commence delivering a sustainable energy concession model to remote Aboriginal communities, aligning with the introduction of electricity tariffs, through the Remote Area Energy Supply Scheme Future Sustainability Program overseen by the Department for Energy and Mining.
Status: On track
Improved Child and Family Support services to Aboriginal Families, Children and Young People
Lead agency: Department for Human Services
Lead minister: Minister for Human Services
Deliverables:
- Reforming the Child and Family Support System to be trauma-informed and through a cultural lens to improve the services and outcomes for Aboriginal children, young people and families.
- Implementation of a culturally sensitive model of care through direct allocation of funding to Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations.
- Development and implementation of a cultural practice framework for deployment in the Department’s Safer Families Services.
- Development and implementation of a culturally-responsive and trauma-response workforce plan.
Contributes to: Building strong and capable Aboriginal communities and Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses.
Status: On track
New Disability Accommodation Aboriginal Services Model
Lead agency: Department for Human Services
Lead minister: Minister for Human Services
Deliverable: Co-designed development and delivery of a culturally appropriate service model for Aboriginal people receiving care and support in the Department’s Disability Accommodation Service.
Contributes to: Building strong and capable Aboriginal communities
Status: Completed
Implementation of the Aboriginal Housing Strategy
Lead agency: SA Housing Authority
Lead minister: Minister for Human Services
Deliverables:
- Launch of the Strategy and implement Local Decision Making Frameworks.
- Aboriginal People can move from social housing to home ownership.
- Investigate opportunities for longer term investments and expansion of transitional accommodation to support a sustained response for Remote Visitors to Adelaide and Port Augusta.
- The provision of $4 million in grant funding to Aboriginal Community Housing Limited towards the delivery of 40 targeted long-term housing outcomes in Bedford Park for Aboriginal Elders.
Contributes to: Building strong and capable Aboriginal communities and Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses.
Status: On track
Aboriginal Emergency Department Access Team
Lead agency: Department Health and Wellbeing
Lead minister: Minister for Health and Wellbeing
Deliverable: New team to work extended hours on a 7-day roster to reduce length of stay, left at own risk and discharge against medical advice rates.
Contributes to: Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses.
Status: On track
Develop and Implement the Aboriginal Cultural Reflection Organisation Audit Tool
Lead agency: Department Health and Wellbeing
Lead minister: Minister for Health and Wellbeing
Deliverables:
- Develop Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) organisation wide audit tool.
- Implement the Audit Tool across CALHN sites to obtain baseline reflections.
- Support CALHN programs and service areas to develop action plans to improve the experience of Aboriginal patients and their families.
- Measured improvements over time.
Contributes to: Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses.
Status: On track
Develop the South Australian Road Safety Strategy to include a section that is specific for Aboriginal peoples
Lead agency: Department for Infrastructure and Transport
Lead minister: Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
Deliverable: The areas of attention will include research, community engagement and collaboration to address the over representation of Aboriginal road users in road trauma as well as incarcerated due to Road Traffic offences.
Contributes to: Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses.
Status: On track
Improve the citizen and business interaction with government through digital delivery of services including the SAGOV Services Portal and drive digital inclusion
Lead agency: Department of the Premier and Cabinet
Lead minister: Premier
Deliverable: An Aboriginal Engagement Strategy to ensure the requirements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are incorporated in the design, testing and development of the SA Government Services Portal and the agency-based services that are delivered via the Portal.
Contributes to: Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses.
Status: On track
Lead the Aboriginal Affairs Executive Committee
Lead agency: Department of the Premier and Cabinet / Department for Correctional Services
Lead minister: Premier and the Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services
Deliverables:
Deliver a work plan for government to:
- support growth of the South Australian ACCO sector
- support economic participation by Aboriginal people and grow Aboriginal businesses
- support vulnerable families
- address over representation in the justice sector create opportunities to identify and develop emerging Aboriginal leaders across the public sector.
Contributes to: Creating opportunities for Aboriginal jobs and businesses and Building strong and capable Aboriginal communities.
Status: On track
Embed all five elements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle
Lead agency: Department for Child Protection
Lead minister: Minister for Child Protection
Deliverable: Ensure the Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017 embeds this principle, pending passage of legislation.
Status: Completed
Multi-agency facility Umuwa
Lead agency: South Australia Police
Lead minister: Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services
Deliverables:
- Enhanced delivery of services to communities on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands.
- Complete infrastructure to enable facility to be used.
Status: On track
South Australian State of Environment (SoE) Report
Lead agency: South Australian Environment Protection Authority
Lead minister: Minister for Environment and Water
Deliverable: Incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives about the state of the environment into the South Australian State of Environment (SoE) Report.
Contributes to: Building strong and capable Aboriginal communities
Status: On track
DEW will work with First Nations groups and other partners to co-design a repatriation policy for repatriation of old people (ancestral remains and materials) to Country on National Parks and Crown land
Lead agency: Department for Environment and Water
Lead minister: Minister for Environment and Water
Deliverables:
- Develop a repatriation policy and work with First Nations groups on the policy and its procedures that also contributes to a proposed SA government Repatriation Plan.
- First Nations groups provide input into the draft policy and /or procedure and are involved in subsequent consultation processes and evaluation, including ensuring that sites of cultural significance along with cultural knowledge and interests are appropriately considered and respected throughout the process.
Status: On track