I feel that I’m missing a lot of the backstory on Labor’s handling of indigenous affairs. Not denying for a moment that navigating one’s way through the policy and politics of reconciliation is hard, but it seems that they’re simply not doing very well at either.Why?Is it just keeping the focus groups happy and bugger the actual outcomes? Is Macklin simply incompetent? Or is there a belief (whether misguided or not) in the government that the current policies will work in the longer term?On another related topic, one question I have about the proposed – where’s the money to run it going to come from? |