Fed: ATSIC was a failure and we don't need a replacement: Nelson

AAP General News (Australia)
04-18-2008
Fed: ATSIC was a failure and we don't need a replacement: Nelson

Federal Opposition leader BRENDAN NELSON's rejected calls for a new national body to
represent Australia's Indigenous people.

Dr NELSON says the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission was a failed
experiment and a new body could only hinder the flow of funding into indigenous communities.

Indigenous leaders are expected to raise the issue of a new peak body at the 2020 Summit
to be held in Canberra this weekend.

ATSIC was abolished in 2005.

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KEYWORD: SUMMIT INDIGENOUS (SYDNEY)

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