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Aboriginal Legal Aid Calls for Public Funds

The Independent Weekly | September 25, 2009

http://www.independentweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/aboriginal-legal-aid-calls-for-public-funds/1633180.aspx

The Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement has made what it calls a reluctant and embarrassing plea to the public to help fund legal services for indigenous South Australians.

… [A] page two advertisement, which “reluctantly and embarrassingly calls on the Australian community” to donate $750,000, coincides with the National Indigenous Legal Conference in Adelaide and a visit by Commonwealth Attorney-General Robert McClelland. [more …]


Comment:

The following comment was rejected by the editors of the The Independent Weekly.

Let me see. Have White tax payers fund the legal expenses of