Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Amendment Bill 2015.

Labor supports this bill, which makes changes to the institute's governance and refines its goals so that it can operate more effectively. Indeed, we have supported the work of this enormously important Australian cultural institution since it was created under the name 'Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies' by the Menzies government in 1964.

The institute received its present name and governance structure when the act that this bill amends was passed under the Hawke government in 1989. Since then, the AIATSIS Council—I think I have it! This is a hard one, this acronym!