which also sounds like they don’t have an official group of Indigenous peoples advising the government on anything that is an Indigenous issue, which is super bad.

What do you mean by “official”? There isn’t one “official” indigenous group in australia, there are hundreds. There have been and are dozens of indigenous advisory panels already working with government that are being ignored. In fact about a month ago a second senior advisor resigned from one of the indigenous advisory boards to the Police because shock horror - they were ignored.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/14/queensland-first-nations-advisory-panel-marlene-longbottom-quits-police

Here’s another from earlier in the year. Yet again resigned because they were being ignored.

https://thewest.com.au/politics/law-and-order/indigenous-advisor-quits-after-qld-police-shooting-c-10211090