Yawuru Elder and Sydney Peace Prize winner Patrick Dodson has questioned the ongoning involvement of Federal government bureaucrats in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities and says that there has to be a rational approach…… without people having to suffer….. to prove that there is a way to improve and deliver public policy.
Mr Dodson, a co- chair of the expert panel on constitutional recognition for Aborignal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian constitution, raised the issue when delivering the the inaugural Mahatma Ghandi Oration .
Speaking on CAAMA RADIO Mr Dodson says the constant factor in the lives of his l people has been the role of the public service from the first native protectors to the welfare agents and all sorts of bureaucratic agencies that now run and manage or interfere going ino the Northern territory intervention..
Mr Dodson says the lives of Aborignal people is now dominated by bureaucrats …and that this interface has to be changed …or removed !
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