National Aboriginal Alliance federal intervention database

Sunday, 28 October, 2007

AAP

Angry words and abuse greeted federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough when he visited an Aboriginal community in Darwin to announce plans to make it into a normal suburb.

Under a sweltering Top End sun, Mr Brough said Bagot community had been neglected by the Northern Territory government and deliberately ostracised, despite its location in the heart of the city.