Following the release of news of the Coalition’s cuts Attorney-General Dreyfus was scathing. Tony Abbott is big on talk but is nowhere to be found when it comes to supporting Indigenous Australians to get the legal assistance they deserve. The Coalition’s cuts amount to an almost 15 per cent cut to Indigenous legal services to 2016-17. There can be no doubt that Tony Abbott is a hypocrite when it comes to supporting Indigenous Australians … Not since the Howard Government have Australians faced the threat that representation in Australia’s courts would be only for the wealthy. blogs.crikey.au/northern/2013/09/06/bashing-the-blacks-on-legal-aid-the-lnp-paves-the-road-to-assimilation-by-incarceration/
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:17:51 +0000
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