Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House, recognising the extreme level of poverty and disadvantage experienced by many indigenous Australians and that there are in some indigenous communities unacceptable levels of social dysfunction and violence, calls on the Government to:

(1)

consult with Indigenous Australians to urgently develop and implement policies to alleviate this poverty and disadvantage; and

(2)

ensure that these matters are given urgent attention at the next meeting of Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting.

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