This process has been informed by work happening within the Commission. This includes the community solutions proposed in the Sharing the Stories of Australian Muslims project calling for enhanced media regulation, legal protections at the intersection of racial and religious discrimination, and for public education; and the Wiyi Yani U Thangani project, specifically the recommendation for a national framework to respond to and heal the intergenerational trauma experienced by First Nations women and girls. It also reflects the Commission’s approach in the Free and Equal project calling for a proactive approach to protecting human rights, including by modernising federal discrimination laws and the protection against racial discrimination, and draws on wider Commission work on human rights and technology, and capacity building. Relevant, significant, and complementary work is also taking place across governments. In this initial scoping process, the Commission has also been informed by commitments under Closing the Gap, State and Territory treaty and truth-telling processes, recommendations from the Uluru Statement from the Heart for a Voice to Parliament, the development of a new National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children, including the interconnected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan and the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children. The report findings connect with the 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit and current Australian government policy regarding skilled migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and temporary visa holders as well as findings to date from the Disability Royal Commission. Overview of the findings During the framework scoping process, the Commission heard that a national anti-racism framework would be pivotal to encouraging institutional change. A National Anti-Racism Framework is a significant step towards achieving racial equity in Australia for all, including Aboriginal people. The Department is supportive of such a framework and sees it as a great opportunity for institutional change. — submission from the Northern Territory Government, Department of the Attorney-General and Justice, NARF project, May 2021 – April 2022 The Commission consistently heard that a framework and initiatives arising from it could only be effective if the harms of settler colonisation experienced by First Nations peoples were acknowledged. Project participants also urged that addressing the continuing impact of colonisation on First Nations peoples is central to anti-racism efforts in Australia and that the success of a framework initiative is predicated on recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights and their leadership in anti-racism initiatives. The focus in this Report on the experiences of First Nations peoples as a threshold for anti-racist action, recognises the inviolability of human rights. It recognises that these rights may not be taken away at any time or infringed in any way and must be fully respected and defended. As former Race Discrimination Commissioner and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Professor Tom Calma AO has observed, this is a matter of the ‘inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family’.10 National Anti-Racism Framework Scoping Report 2022 | 24