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Langton the head of the failed aboriginal industry wants to cement her position using The Voice

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Yes, there have been many advisory groups and consultative groups and councils. 

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There's no evidence to suggest that they didn't work. 

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I think it's one of the biggest disasters in Aboriginal affairs policy in the last 40 years. 

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ATSIC was trouble from the first vote. 

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It was supposed to be a revolution in Aboriginal affairs. 

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Been around since the very first one. 

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There's there's no evidence for the proposition that they didn't make a positive difference. 

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In fact, some of them made an enormously positive difference

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Is the Money making any difference. It's all very well to spend taxpayers money, but surely we should be looking at whether that money's helped people or. 

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Not, but you know, it was in a room like this, elsewhere on the planet. 

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And we know from the evidence that what improves people's lives is when they get a say. And that's what this is about. 

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Are you kidding me? 

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If you're they don't actually communicate with communities. 

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You know they're. 

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Sitting in their little ivory towers, talking to politicians, talking to socialists and communists, they're not talking to the Aboriginal people while they claim to be. 

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Representing us. 

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