Lou, I am not a ministerial adviser! Nor have I a whole bureaucracy at my disposal to consult with all the aboriginal communities. The Libs may dictate what they want (as they always did without the slightest consultation with anyone, as in the case of their invasion of NT) but I prefer that my PM talks with the people about whom he's going to write a law. Ask them how that law should be framed and what should be the vocabulary within it.
Alas, it seems that all this is above your head, so, leave it to the experts, particularly those with some conscience, which is what I believe, we have this time round.
I would not be surprised in the least, however, if, after the law has been enacted and after many years, when the Libs get back into govn't they don't undo all the good work the Labs have done in this area... like they did with Mabo and with much other legislation. It's like going back to the past with them! They'd love to take us all back to the days of the squatters.
