On the political front, it might be a significant symbolic victory for the Howard government to have co-opted a renowned leader of the land rights movement to its current view that traditional owners of townships should encumber their freehold title with 99-year leases to gain equitable access to public housing and utilities. But on the longer-term policy front this victory might be pyrrhic, writes Jon Altman.
Emergency intervention
Brough’s bills: 500 pages of pure insanity
Only a card-carrying member of the Liberal Party could now argue that the ‘emergency intervention’ was anything but a political stunt. But if you still have your doubts, then take a gander at the legislation that has sprung from it, writes Chris Graham.
