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  • Call for Aborigine 'paternalism'

    06/21/2006 10:25:24 AM PDT · by Jedi Master Pikachu · 7 replies · 367+ views
    BBC ^ | June 21, 2006
    Australia's health minister has proposed sending administrators to run struggling Aboriginal communities. Tony Abbott said allowing Aborigines to manage their own affairs had in many cases failed, highlighting issues of health, poverty and abuse. A new form of "paternalism" was needed, he said, to build governing structures in failing communities. Opposition lawmakers attacked the plan, accusing him of a return to heavily criticised policies of the past. "What we know of 200 years of Australian history is that paternalism didn't work," said Chris Evans, indigenous affairs spokesman for the Labor Party. "Paternalism is what saw the black children taken away...