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Outlines background and history of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation; overviews the work of the Council from its establishment in 1991 to its winding up on 31 December 2000; contains six recommendations for future actions to continue the reconciliation process; covers addressing disadvantage; legislative actions by state and federal governments to recognise the principles in the Australian Declaration Towards Reconciliation and the Roadmap for Reconciliation, to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of Australia, to put in place a process to unite Australians through an agreement or treaty.