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Minister looks for a distraction

The Central Land Council says that Hermannsburg is an ideal example of a community which has opened part of its town to visitors and retained the permits system to protect the privacy of its citizens in the rest of the community.

“Yuendumu is another example of a community which has opened areas to visitors who wish to buy fuel or visit the arts centre but retains permits for its housing and other private areas,” CLC Director David Ross said today.

“Both of these communities have informally declared these areas open through consensus. If they wished to formalise the arrangements, it would be simple process of requesting the CLC to ask the Administrator of the NT to declare the area open under the Aboriginal Land Act,” he said.

“The overwhelming message we get from our 93 members throughout CLC's region - the southern half of the Northern Territory - is that Aboriginal people want to retain their permits.

“And in our survey for our review of the Northern Territory Emergency Response, 94 per cent of respondents said they wished to retain the permit system. This was also a finding by the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) review board.

“I think Minister Scrymgour is looking to provide a distraction from the more serious problems facing the Northern Territory Government at this time,” Mr Ross said.

Contact: Jane Hodson 0417877579

15 october 2008