The Greens' backing of Aboriginal self-determination has won it the support of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, which in an unprecedented move launched an advertising campaign urging Indigenous Australians everywhere to get behind the Greens as a protest vote against 'the assimilationist [is that even a word?] policies' of the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal-National Coalition.
In response, Aboriginal academic and community leader Marcia Langton argued that a vote for the Greens is a vote against Indigenous rights, citing the Wild Rivers Act as an example:
'They can't say they are standing up [for] Indigenous rights and support the denial of the right to economic development.'
Wild Rivers Act
Sara Hudson is a Policy Analyst at The Centre for Independent Studies.
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Greens’ backward Indigenous policy could risk bipartisan understanding
The Greens' backing of Aboriginal self-determination has won it the support of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, which in an unprecedented move launched an advertising campaign urging Indigenous Australians everywhere to get behind the Greens as a protest vote against 'the assimilationist [is that even a word?] policies' of the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal-National Coalition.
In response, Aboriginal academic and community leader Marcia Langton argued that a vote for the Greens is a vote against Indigenous rights, citing the Wild Rivers Act as an example:
'They can't say they are standing up [for] Indigenous rights and support the denial of the right to economic development.'
Wild Rivers Act
Sara Hudson is a Policy Analyst at The Centre for Independent Studies.
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