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The politics of apology and the laws of compensation : Comments
By Nilay Patel, published 14/2/2008Many international conventions binding on Australia recognise a right to an effective remedy for the stolen generations: but what are the legal issues?
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“The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently found that the Indigenous housing stock had increased by only 2 per cent since 2001 and in the Northern Territory there are 271 fewer houses than there were five years ago. This is despite well over $1 billion spent since 2001,”
Mr Brough said.“The PricewaterhouseCoopers review of CHIP found in some cases houses in remote communities were costing in excess of $600,000. And yet many of these houses are lasting only ten years."
The houses were not just falling down by themselves were they. If they were, we are sorry that were not built stronger.
David