WARREN Mundine has accused the West Australian government of “infrastructure apartheid” by threatening Aboriginal people and treating them differently to white communities. 
 
The plan to slowly shut more than half the remote communities in the state has also drawn an ­impassioned response from the Bishop of ­Broome, Christopher Saunders, whose diocese takes in more than 100 Kimberley communities.

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett has admitted his government would be forced to close up to 150 of the state’s remote Aboriginal homelands after accepting a one-off $90 million payment from the Abbott government to take over responsibility for municipal and essential services.

The South Australian government has warned that it too would have to shut communities if it was offered an inadequate funding deal by the federal government.

Bishop Saunders has accused federal and state governments of “turning their backs on the needs of our nation’s first Aust­ralians and … promising a new dispossess­ion that can only result in further injustices and gross sufferin­g”.

Mr Mundine, the head of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advis­ory Council, met federal Indig­enous ­Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion about the issue and concluded that the Barnett government was using a funding stoush with the federal government to renege on its obligations to fund services for all its citizens, regardless of colour.

“They should be providing ­municipal services for all people in their state,’’ he said.

“How can it be that everyone in the state except Aboriginals get the funding, that’s where my anger is. It’s almost like an infrastructure apartheid system.

The Federal Court ruled on Mabo and Wik that Aboriginal people could only exercise there claim for native title if they maintain a connection to their land.....This is why Aboriginal people have remained in remote communities or risk losing any right to country they have lived on for centuries.....This is obviously a move by the Federal and State Governments to remove Aboriginal people from their ancestral lands and claim them for the State by stealth.....What a transparent act of bastardy from this Government who could not get the land any other way so they will steal it from the Aboriginal people!!!

well now all you lefties can allow the Abos to go and live as they once did as true tribal people living off the land.  no support from outside.  wouldn't thet be wonderful?  the Noble Savage showing us how resilient they are?

longweekend58 wrote on Nov 15^th, 2014 at 11:19am:



Isn't that what they want??

Always blaming us for destroying their way of life?

Not to mention totally destroying the Stick research facility.

well now all you lefties can allow the Abos to go and live as they once did as true tribal people living off the land.  no support from outside.  wouldn't thet be wonderful?  the Noble Savage showing us how resilient they are?

longweekend58 wrote on Nov 15^th, 2014 at 11:19am:


I think you have summed up the true contempt and lack of respect the right have for Aboriginal people and any rights they may have.....How typically Christian of you and Tony Abbott to treat Aboriginal people as lesser citizens than other Australian's.....No other people would be forced off their land without compensation accept for the Abo's!!!