Indigenous treaties 'just playing games with words'
Indigenous treaties 'just playing games with words'
- This assessment, from constitutional
lawyers Greg Craven and Anne Twomey, comes after moves toward
state-based treaties with Aboriginal communities emerged in Victoria,
South Australia and the Northern Territory. Professor
Craven, vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, said
state governments were misleading Aboriginal communities and raising
false expectations by holding out the prospect of treaties.