the Army provided support to the indigenous communities selected by ATSIC
short for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
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- Even then, ATSIC boundaries cut across existing regions, at least in NSW.
- For all its difficulties, ATSIC has overseen important initiatives.
- The troubles at ATSIC highlight a number of issues peculiar to indigenous organisations.
- The end of ATSIC is a case of a government trying to divest itself of responsibility in line with neo-liberal ideology.
- The one really large program for which ATSIC remained responsible was the Community Development Employment Projects.
- An ATSIC discussion paper on reforming indigenous economic development proposes to establish a new statutory authority called Indigenous Business Australia.
- ATSIC has recently come under fire from the Minister for perceived conflict of interest at the level of the ATSIC Board of Commissioners.
- At the 1999 ATSIC elections, only 22 per cent of those eligible voted.
- The abolition of ATSIC conforms to neo-liberal forms of governance at a number of levels.
- She later became a prominent public servant and chairperson of ATSIC in Canberra.