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Indigenous people 'abandoned by Labor'

Former ATSIC leader Geoff Clark, says Aboriginal people feel they've been abandoned by the Gillard government.

A former leader of the now defunct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Geoff Clark, says Aboriginal people feel they've been abandoned by the Gillard government.

 

Geoff Clark led ATSIC until it was disbanded by the Howard government in 2004.

 

Mr Clark has told Greg Dyett the Labor Party has deserted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.


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