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Empowering Aboriginal communities.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)(Report)

Leaving aside the global question of climate change, the rebuilding of our relationship with Indigenous Australians into a partnership based on justice is the greatest and most urgent task facing the new Rudd government. This means achieving living standards and life opportunities for Indigenous people that are comparable with the rest of the population.

There can be no doubt about our responsibility to redress the continuing consequences of 200 years of dispossession, murder and deprivation. Recently quoted by Melbourne barrister Geoffrey Gibson, Hannah Arendt put it this way: 'Every government assumes political responsibility for the deeds and misdeeds of its predecessor ...

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