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The fire at the Camp Sovereignty Aboriginal protest action staged to coincide with the Melbourne Commonwealth Games was finally extinguished last week. Some believe it has thrust indigenous rights back onto the political agenda, while others believe the action has inadvertently reversed years of hard work.
Mixed signals lead one to wonder whether the Commonwealth is pulling back from shouldering its share of the cost of aged care.
While many Australian people remain divided on the question of capital punishment, we can rejoice in the fact that in this country there is public debate about the issue.
Dr Binoy Kampmark is a former Commonwealth Scholar who lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.
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