South Australia

Foley's Folly

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 22/04/2012 - 8:46pm

There’s a certain satisfaction that comes from knowing that the former South Australian treasurer for Mike Rann’s ALP government, Kevin Foley, is the now head of Foley Advisory - a consultancy firm for the development industry. A post-parliamentary career ‘advising’ developers (advising what exactly? How to assimilate development aspirations with government policy? How to cut re…) certainly seems to confirm criticisms that the Rann Government was resolutely pro-development industry. Maybe call this the ‘We told you so’ affectation.

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Aboriginal Political Party is born to fight injustice

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 09/03/2012 - 3:25pm

Gerry Georgatos

The Aboriginal Political Party (APP)
has been born in South Australia and it
has based its first principle on fighting
injustice.

Leading the way are APP executive
officers, Kaurna Elder, Lynette Crocker and
Dr Dylan Coleman, the 2011 recipient of
the Queensland Premier’s David Unaipon
Indigenous Literary Award.

On February 19, the 176th South Australian
Letters Patent commemoration was held by
the APP.

“As we move towards a referendum on
constitutional recognition we must consider
the 1836 Letters Patent which defined the

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Adelaide

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South Australia

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Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Aboriginal Political Party

South Australia

Letters Patent

Kaurna