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What a TV link to a remote community taught me about good government
The latest Productivity Commission report shows all governments struggling to make the fundamental changes needed to give Indigenous communities their voice.
Tom BurtonGovernment editorToo many years ago, I was sent to Cape York as a federal official to prepare for the first remote television service in Australia to be turned on.
It was the mid-1980s and new government satellites had been launched to enable thousands of regional and remote communities to get up to five digital television channels. For many, it was the first time they would be able to watch television.
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