aborigines to desert labor over intervention

Aborigines 'to desert Labor' over intervention support
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Aboriginal backlash? Kevin Rudd campaigning in Darwin on Saturday (AAP: Alan Porritt)
An Aboriginal rights group says many Indigenous people in the Northern Territory will not vote for Labor in the federal election because of the party's support for the Commonwealth intervention.

On a visit to Darwin yesterday, Opposition leader Kevin Rudd maintained his support for the Federal Government's intervention into Aboriginal affairs.

Eileen Cummings, from the group "Women for Wik" says Indigenous voters who traditionally supported Labor may vote for the minor parties instead.

"They're not going to be looking at either the Labor or the Liberal party for their votes. So who else can we go for? Maybe independent, the Greens?," she said.

"The only people who have supported us in this whole thing and voted against it were the Greens and the Democrats."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/04/2081029.htm