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You can be sure that when disputes over this “deal” are broadcast over the media, the average white punter’s perceptions after seeing Aboriginal people protesting against (what to them is a generous billion dollar gift from the government), this will only reinforce negative and resentful white attitudes, such as ‘why are they being given all this money by the government and still not satisfied? They are greedy.’

The strategy of bussing people around is not new. It was used effectively during the Swan Brewery protest in Perth where Aboriginal dissidents were ferried in from Wiluna to speak against local Nyoongar Elders who were trying to protect their spiritual heritage from development. The Wiluna people were not related to the Swan River Nyoongars but this didn’t matter to the politicians.