only in your tiny mind was it a waste....on the other hand it could have been an advisory body to the government on issues affecting first Australians...thats it advisory...as opposed to , for example the faceless business people who talked john howard out of introducing an emissions trading scheme in 2003, when his cabinet was set to introduce it...fancy that ...a small number of faceless people influencing government policy which as it turns out has proven to cost billions . at this point you could put up your useless graph.
