'Dismal' indigenous policies slammed (fwd link)

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'Dismal' indigenous policies slammed

Jewel Topsfield
September 6, 2008

www.theage.com.au
Australia

THE Northern Territory intervention appeared to be a return to the form of
paternalism that had a "dismal track record" in the US, according to an
international expert on indigenous governance.

Professor Stephen Cornell said indigenous self-government and decision-making
was the only policy that had worked to tackle social and economic problems of
native peoples in the US and Canada in 400 years of colonisation.

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