There is not evidence of a national plan to link indigenous people to all Australia's documentary heritage. There is some discussion of the formation of a national network of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander library staff. That the State and Territory Libraries establish advisory mechanisms appropriate to State and local needs and which will result in improved access in libraries to documentary heritage for Aboriginal and Torres Stair Islander people. If the advisory mechanisms proposed in the resolution RH1 are effective, this resolution will not be necessary. Even the way be describe it has been shown to be, in numerous instances, discriminatory or even offensive.
Attention needs to be given to the acquisition of materials which reflect the Aboriginal view.
Since it is only relatively recently that their oral traditions have been extended to the written word, care needs to be taken to ensure that institutions acquire this too. The documented experience of growing numbers of Aboriginal people has given impetus to others to record their experience. This, in turn, has sparked renewed interest in Aboriginal writing, in their history and traditions and in new interpretations of their heritage. Increasingly, and unsurprisingly, Aboriginal people with to see and read it. This raises the censorship issue in a different context and sits at odds with the anti-censorship and freedom to read precepts of modern librarianship and, indeed, of society.