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By Graham Ring - posted Thursday, 24 August 2006


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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First published in the National Indigenous Times on August 10, 2006, Issue 111.



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Graham Ring is an award-winning writer and a fortnightly National Indigenous Times columnist. He is based in Alice Springs.

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