Jordy Mifsud

A very proud, I think most of all you know, we’re very progressive state and you see us leading the way with treaty and a lot of other different things happening in this space. So, yeah, I think the main thing I feel is great sense of pride in my mob and being an Koori person as well. Yeah.

Yeah. So I think, like what I just said, having the ability to make those decisions ourselves rather than just be consulted on and you know, whether government decides to take what we have on board or not? Yeah. I think just that shift in power and having the ability to really, you know, drive change for ourselves without having to keep begging, you know, the government for that handover of responsibilities.

Yeah, I think, I mean, there’s a lot of different things that need changing for sure, but I think like most people, changes in health, education and justice are probably a big ones that yeah, have a very big impact on our mob. And we are very disadvantaged in all of those systems. So, yeah, a lot of changes through that. But I think most of all just, you know, gaining some power back to I guess have a say in dictate, you know, what happens for us in those spaces, I think will be kind of a key thing that I hope treaty is able to achieve.

Yeah, I think you see some Tio groups really doing well, particularly in the economic development sense. And I know Eastern Maar are certainly starting to look at what we can do ourselves and implement for Eastern Maar people. So I know Jahja, Barong and Gibson mob out there doing some amazing work. They have tons of people employed through the traditional owner
corporations. So yeah, hopefully iMac can yeah, take a lot of learnings from them, what they’ve done well. But I think, yeah, there’s so much opportunity in this space. Right. Like it’s yeah, we can do anything we want to achieve, I guess. So yeah. Just looking forward to all those opportunities, particularly around like, tourism and that 40 economic development for, you know, for mob which is, yeah, a really exciting space and there’s endless opportunities. So just looking forward to seeing, you know, how they progress in the future. And yeah, looking forward to getting down on country and, you know, seeing more presence of mob through different sites and just everywhere you look really hopefully. Yeah