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ON JANUARY 15 LAST, ALP President Warren Mundine, the scourge of the Latte Left, went on the offensive on the Land Rights issue. He wants the ALP's national conference in April to embrace laws that would give Aborigines the right to buy and sell their own homes and businesses on what is now communal land. He was quoted in the Australian thus:
"There can't be any confusion about this: I want us to make it clear that we are about this, that we want an economy for indigenous people."
He said the ALP had to stop focussing on the debate about indigenous "rights", saying the State Labor governments, including NSW, had not gone far enough to change land-use ...