{"id":1420680,"date":"2023-12-31T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/jan\/01\/howard-government-canada-un-declaration-indigenous-rights"},"modified":"2023-12-31T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T13:01:02","slug":"howard-government-worked-with-canada-to-oppose-un-declaration-on-indigenous-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/31\/howard-government-worked-with-canada-to-oppose-un-declaration-on-indigenous-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard government worked with Canada to oppose UN declaration on Indigenous rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet papers from 2003 show the government pursued talks without consulting peak Indigenous body \u2013 which it then abolished<\/p><p>The Howard government fought strongly against recognising the right of Indigenous peoples to \u201cself-determination\u201d and worked secretly with Canada to try to change a draft UN declaration, newly released cabinet papers show.<\/p><p>The cabinet papers from 2003, released by the National Archives on Monday, show that some Australian government departments held concerns about potential impacts of the UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples, but Australia\u2019s talks with Canada on amendments were being pursued with \u201cno Indigenous consultation about the process or its product\u201d as such input would be \u201cpremature\u201d.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/jan\/01\/howard-government-canada-un-declaration-indigenous-rights\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/jan\/01\/howard-government-canada-un-declaration-indigenous-rights\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet papers from 2003 show the government pursued talks without consulting peak Indigenous body \u2013 which it then abolishedThe Howard government fought strongly against recognising the right of Indigenous peoples to \u201cself-determination\u201d and worked sec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1208,1730,72406,91,2883,6,1853,1275,1809,13082,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420681,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420680\/revisions\/1420681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}