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FOR APPROXIMATELY thirty years the policies of separatism and self-determination which Nugget Coombs was able to impose upon the political elites of Australia, and consequently on Australia's Aboriginal people, ran without check or hindrance. The turning point came after the 1996 federal election with John Howard's appointment of John Herron as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. Herron began the Augean task of cleaning out the stables built by Coombs and his followers, but it took until March 2005 before the first piece of legislation required to begin the dismantling of those stables was passed--the ATSIC Abolition Act.
But now we are witnessing the consequences ...