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Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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Aboriginal Tourism

The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS (15:02): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation questions about Aboriginal tourism.

Leave granted.

The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS: I note that the Aboriginal tourism venture took out an award at the recent South Australian Tourism Industry Awards, and I congratulate all involved. My questions of the minister are:

1. How many successful Aboriginal tourism ventures are there in South Australia?

2. Does the minister agree that much more effort must be made in this area?

3. Is the minister aware of other successful models interstate that South Australian Aboriginal communities could replicate?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (15:03): I thank the honourable member for his questions and his longstanding demonstrated interest in Aboriginal affairs. Certainly, around Australia, there are some good examples of Aboriginal tourism ventures working quite well. Of course, Yulara Resort, in the centre of Australia, is Aboriginal owned and controlled. There are a number of Aboriginal owned and controlled tourism operations in South Australia that combine cultural awareness and cultural training with tourism.

Ones that I have been to recently include places like Camp Coorong (just outside Meningie in the South-East) and Iga Warta (in the Upper Flinders Ranges), which provide not only tourism but cultural awareness training opportunities. There are opportunities but the remoteness of many of our Aboriginal communities in South Australia do make it difficult and there are significant challenges.

Just off the highway, as you go through the APY lands, there is one arts centre that can be visited, but the remoteness of many traditional Aboriginal communities makes tourism a difficult task. But, there are opportunities, and I have been working with a couple of different Kaurna proposals for tourism closer to Adelaide. Tandanya is a stand-out institution that many visitors visit when in Adelaide that promotes and showcases Aboriginal culture to tourists in Adelaide.

There are a number, but we could always do more, and certainly the Northern Territory is recognised as a leader as a destination for cultural tourism, and many other places have Indigenous culture and tourism as parts of an overall package, but I acknowledge that more could be done.

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