Fed: New welfare trial for troubled WA indigenous communities=2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-27-2008
Fed: New welfare trial for troubled WA indigenous communities=2

Ms Macklin said the problems facing indigenous communities stemmed from decades of
"entrenched preconceptions and vested interests" but the government was determined to
turn that around.

"We have to find new ways of doing things because the old ways have so comprehensively
failed and in doing so we must work with indigenous Australians in a partnership built
on respect and mutual responsibility," she said.

The state of indigenous Australia was like another country within Australia characterised
by neglect, disadvantage and …