‘Lifestyle choice’ or connection to country?

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Research into the Homelands Movement which began with a change in government policy in the late 1970s have showed measurable increases in health and well being.

The Prime Minister has inflamed indigenous Australia and come up against his own chief indigenous adviser after saying that remote outstations were a ‘lifestyle choice’ that could no longer be supported by Australian taxpayers. His critics point out that the rights of indigenous people to occupy their lands are part of international agreements to which Australia is signatory.

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