Tony Abbott by-passed the already-in-place National Congress of Australias First Peoples to create the Indigenous Advisory Council to provide advice on Indigenous issues, and handpicked Warren Mundine to chair it. Mr Mundine is now urging Mr Abbott to do what decades of Prime Ministers before him have either been unable or unwilling to: negotiate treaties with Australias Indigenous people. He says there should be separate treaties with each of what he calls the Indigenous nations or language groups that were present on the continent before European settlement began in 1788, and which still exist. Source: sbs.au/news/article/2014/01/27/mundine-calls-indigenous-treaties.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:25:22 +0000
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