While the Murdoch-owned Geelong Advertiser described Sarah Hathway as “divisive”, she has a proven track record of standing up against corporate greed, which is what people expect of their local representative. Angela Carr reports.
Aboriginal services
There are at least two truisms in Aboriginal affairs. The first is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. I’ll come back to that one. The second is that the road through Aboriginal affairs, while often paved with good intentions, is sometimes paved with bad ones.
I’m going to assume that when Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin held a gun to the head of Alice Springs town campers and told them that unless they signed over their land for 40 years it would be compulsorily acquired, that her intentions were good.