Legislative Council Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2) 53 2 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Question Time Aboriginal Constitutional Recognition Aboriginal Constitutional Recognition The Hon. T.A. FRANKS Legislative Council Aboriginal Constitutional Recognition The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:45): Noting the Andrews government has entered into talks with First Nations people, will the Weatherill government be doing the same with South Australian First Nations people with regard to a treaty? The Hon. K.J. MAHER Legislative Council Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy Aboriginal Constitutional Recognition The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy) (14:45): I thank the honourable member for her question. We will always look to ways that we can have better and deeper engagement with Aboriginal South Australians. I think one of the ways we are leading the nation is with our Aboriginal Regional Authority Policy that sets up a framework for Aboriginal communities in geographical areas to be represented by a regional authority that can deal with government from one geographical area, almost on a leader-to-leader basis. I know that already the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority regularly has meetings with a number of ministers on a leader-to-leader basis: leaders of the Ngarrindjeri nation with the state government. I have noted it, and I will get more information about what Victoria is doing, but I think that, in directly negotiating and giving Aboriginal communities more of a say, I am pleased with the direction our regional authorities policy is going. But I certainly will inform myself more on what Victoria is doing.