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Extract from Australian
Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online, on 3 Oct 2002.
Canada and Australia have held groundbreaking talks on how best
to tackle Aboriginal Affairs Minister Philip Ruddock has met with Canadian
"There is a great deal of interest in Australia in areas
where we both Although Canada's 1.4 million Aboriginal peoples receive some
$8 billion Mr Nault, the Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development,
is Canada has more than 600 separate groups of native people, who
are also The plight of the First Nations is a painful embarrassment to
Canada, In December 2000, television cameras were on hand to record shocking
Mr Ruddock says he was particularly interested in what Canada
has done to "I think people are moving away from what has been called
the rights "Our First Nations peoples encourage me to look at Canada
all the time, Australia's indigenous people are likely to die 20 years earlier
than Later this week, Mr Ruddock is due to travel to the western Canadian
Mr Nault says he was happy to exchange views with another country
that "I'm very interested in how they, by using our mistakes,
I can say that "There's no doubt we think we have come a long way and if
they can learn "If we can learn something from them, then so much the better." |
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