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Tent Embassy Under Spotlight
TENT EMBASSY UNDER SPOTLIGHT
3.8.2005. 12:51:09
3.8.2005. 12:51:09
continue reading: SBS http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=117389®ion=7Federal Territories Minister Jim Lloyd has refused to give a guarantee that the current residents of Canberra's Aboriginal tent embassy will have a place on a committee investigating the future of the controversial landmark.
Mr Lloyd said he believed that the site had been hijacked in recent times by people with interests that departed from the original intent of the embassy as a symbol of indigenous Australians' fight for land rights.
The tent embassy is a makeshift structure that was set up on the lawns of Old Parliament House amid violent protests in 1972.
It became recognised as a permanent site in 1992.
Over the past three decades, though, there have been repeated attempts by governments to tear it down and move embassy residents on after complaints the site is an eyesore and an international embarrassment. (....)
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