The Federal Government is offering to provide petrol bowsers to a remote
Aboriginal community if it agrees that children there will shower every
day and household rubbish bins will be emptied twice a week.
The Federal Opposition has released a draft shared-responsibility
agreement between the Government and the Mulan Aboriginal Community in
Western Australia.
Under the deal, the Government would provide petrol bowsers and new
health programs, while the community would agree to meet certain
standards including getting children to school and making sure their
faces are washed twice a day.
Labor's Indigenous affairs spokesman Kim Carr is not impressed.
"I see it as being very one-sided, it is unbalanced and it would appear
all the obligation is on one side of the community," he said.
He has told the ABC's "AM" program that it is an issue the National
Indigenous Council should be raising, when it meets senior government
ministers today. |