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Decades of policy failure to blame for Indigenous disadvantage: Oxfam

Oxfam Chief Executive Officer Helen Szoke

Oxfam Chief Executive Officer Helen Szoke Source: AAP

Scathing about Australia's track record on Indigenous policy, a new report demands better community engagement to address what it calls "appalling rates of disadvantage".


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Scathing about Australia's track record on Indigenous policy, a new report demands better community engagement to address what it calls "appalling rates of disadvantage".


Oxfam's findings have been delivered just weeks before the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum, which included Indigenous Australians in the national census and allowed the Commonwealth to create laws for them.


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