If you don’t want to chat with the next door neighbour, that’s your own affair.
But Ministers of the Crown, who oversee the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars of public money, have a duty to be accountable. The Minister for Indigenous Affairs needs to have a working relationship with the highest-circulating Indigenous-specific newspaper in the country.
Let’s be clear. Some remote communities have serious problems which must be addressed with a great deal of thought, careful planning, and thorough consultation with Aboriginal people.
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Hyperbole has no place here.
Indigenous Australia needs generals to help plan its long term future, not captains to organise emu parades.
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