not equipped to negotiate effectively. One stakeholder said they had seen through their work over many years young people who are racially victimised or bullied leaving the school system, which risks long-term impacts on their socio-economic status later in life. Further, this means that students perpetrating this behaviour in an education setting that fails to hold them to account are entering adulthood with a belief that such behaviour is acceptable. ‘There is a constant need for education to counter hateful narratives that reach young people.’42 First Nations Linking the Framework with related national frameworks and strategies, particularly the Closing the Gap National Agreement, was called for by some participants to ensure outcomes for First Nations communities are also central. They noted that the Framework presents a significant opportunity to address the disparity caused by the majority of anti-racism work being focused on CALD communities; the disconnect in how government works with First Nations and CALD communities in this policy space; the significant government work with and for First Nations communities that centres equity but not racism, and the new Closing the Gap priority on addressing structural racism in government institutions, in order to create a cohesive national approach to addressing racism. ‘So, it needs to be really, I think a national anti-racism framework has to be very clearly linked to some of those other national kinds of frameworks. So, the multicultural framework, the Closing the Gap, you know, all of those sorts of big-ticket policy areas have to be linked really, really tightly to a national anti-racism framework. And there need to be actions within that framework that are compulsory, if they're not, like I said, if they're not compulsory, you can forget it, I'm telling you now, it's just not going to happen. I've been trying internally to have people look at having our own anti racism strategy. That's gone nowhere. And look, and that's not because people don't want to do it. I know that at the end of the day, everyone's heart’s in the right place. You know, they see the value in it, but when like I said, when you've got such a big rambling agency like ours, with so many expectations placed on it, you get the big-ticket items are the things that are going to get, you know, done first.’43 42 43 Federal interviewee (Community) Federal interviewee (Departmental) 27