Aborigines may benefit from lucrative gas field
Sarah Smiles; 1/5/08
Aborigines living in poverty in the Kimberley could be the biggest winners from a future multibillion-dollar gas development off the West Australian coast, according to the Kimberley Land Council. They stand to receive billions in royalties from the resources project — potentially the biggest in Australia’s history — and could use it to take control of health, housing and education services, it says. “We aren’t letting governments off the hook from these responsibilities,” the land council’s director, Wayne Bergmann, said in a speech to the National Press Club yesterday. But he said Aboriginal people needed to take control of their economic future.
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