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A report into an ambitious housing scheme for Australia‘s Aboriginals has found that not one dwelling has been built in the year since it began.
The project aims to construct 750 homes in the Northern Territory and refurbish hundreds of others.Officials blamed “administration problems” for the delays – which prompted one minister to quit. The slow pace of this ambitious programme to help Aboriginal families almost brought down the Northern Territory government when a former minister quit in disgust at the lack of progress.

Treatment of Aborigines ‘racist’ (news.bbc.co.uk)
Art and nature flourish in Australia’s `Top End’ (thestar.com)
UN envoy in Aboriginal assessment (news.bbc.co.uk)
Facing a Crisis, Aborigines Stage Interventions of Their Own (nytimes.com)
Gap dividing Aborigines growing (news.bbc.co.uk)
UN accuses Australia of ‘entrenched racism’ (guardian.co.uk)

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The BBC writes that a report has come out in Australia about Aboriginal social and economic trends. The report is not good:

The report measured 50 key indicators of disadvantage, and found that there has been no improvement in 80% of them.
There have been no gains, for instance, in literacy or numeracy rates.
In an otherwise bleak assessment, one of the few areas of improvement was employment.

Prim Minister Mr Rudd