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should not be seen simply as a package of goods and services to be delivered to theircommunities. ‘It entails accepting the rights of Indigenous peoples and establishingprocesses which translate abstract principles into the actual enjoyment and exercise ofrights’ (Dodson 1995 page 97). These rights are both individual human rights andcollective rights that arise from the status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoplesas Indigenous peoples. They include the right of Indigenous peoples to selfdetermination.Social justiceRecommendation 42: That to address the social and economic disadvantages thatunderlie the contemporary removal of Indigenous children and young people theCouncil of Australian Governments,1. in partnership with ATSIC, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Officeof the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner andIndigenous community organisations dealing with Indigenous family andchildren’s issues, develop and implement a social justice package for Indigenousfamilies and children, and2. pursue the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission intoAboriginal Deaths in Custody which address underlying issues of socialdisadvantage.Endnotes1 A homeland has been defined as an area with which an Indigenous young person recognise anancestral or cultural links.2 For example, see the National Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody,the Toomelah and Mornington reports of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissionand the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner’s Fourth AnnualReport.3 The other two tiers of response were the Commonwealth Native Title Act and the Aboriginal LandAcquisition Fund.