Remote Australia: The limits of government capacity. Fred Chaney

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In this stirring address to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Fred Chaney takes a critical look at the long-term failures of the Australian political system in relation to the nation's indigenous communities. He takes particular aim at the inability of bureacracies and welfarist policies to deliver any meaningful positive change in the lives of indigenous people in remote communities, and points to massive failures in education, health and housing to call for a complete re-think of the nation's stance on this issue.

Chaney is Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia and Deputy President of the National Native Title Tribunal. He is a former Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.