As a Nation, we have the privilege of knowing who our continent's first peoples are, and we can share in their culture that has helped build Australia into the country it now is.

With the millions of dollars spent on these people each year, it is a national disgrace that many of them seem to live in abject neglect.

The day that the representatives of the Derri Aboriginal Corporation arrived with cheque in hand at the ICooks Factory in Dandenong for a meeting to ‘ink the deal’ which had been negotiated over many months, the State Government closed the factory by Health Order. The Derri people were confronted with a taped-up business with Health closure notices pinned to the door. They had no choice but to turn around and go home, deal blown there and then.

But what was this deal that had these aboriginal elders travelled thousands of kilometres to secure? And what was the impact of the outcome?

Full story at https://caainc.org.au/aboriginals-victims-of-slug-gate/