Sentence examples for indigenous representatives from inspiring English sources

He then dismayed Protestants by signing off on a document that relegated their churches to mere "ecclesial communities"; outraged indigenous representatives in Latin America by insisting that evangelisation in the New World did not represent "the imposition of a foreign culture"; and angered Jews by setting the controversial wartime pope, Pius XII, on the road to beatification.

(He later sought to calm the waters by meeting with indigenous representatives).

Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson proposed a plebiscite at Monday's meeting of political and Indigenous representatives in Sydney.

"I think it was absolutely appalling," Mick Gooda, one of the top indigenous representatives in the government told The Australian newspaper.

Of the 17 extractive projects - hydrocarbons, mining and infrastructure - that have been subject to prior consultation to date, not one of them has been opposed by indigenous representatives".

"The EIS process has involved consultation with a significant number of stakeholders including elected representatives, federal and state government agencies as well as non-governmental agencies, local councils, Indigenous representatives, the private sector, public organisations and local residents," he said.

The moment that the indigenous representative kicks an indigenous woman, I have no defense for keeping him".

An Indigenous representative who met with the company, Adrian Burragubba of the Wangan and Jagalingou people, has claimed that an Adani Mining general manager revealed last year the company's public job numbers were overblown.

In fact, almost 12 months before the roll out of the IAS and six months before last year's budget, the national Indigenous representative body National Congress of Australia's First Peoples was informed that they would no longer receive funding from the government.

In Australia, Indigenous peoples were granted rights to equal pay in 1965, and a 1967 referendum transferred some powers in respect to Indigenous peoples from the states to the federal government, leading to the establishment of an Indigenous representative body, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC).

Indigenous youth representatives will travel to Canberra on Monday to meet four Indigenous MPs as part of a campaign to raise awareness of reasons to recognise the First Australians in the constitution.