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Like May flowers, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues website springs to colourful life each year before the two-week session in New York. Now in its fourth year, the 2005 forum has new members, with Australia's former indigenous rights ombudsman, barrister and Australian National University chair in Indigenous Studies, Mick Dodson, newly representing the Pacific.
The handover from the first Pacific representative--energetic and popular indigenous Hawaiian, Mililani Trask--took place in April in Brisbane.
Mick Dodson is an ideal representative. He is at home in a range of overseas and domestic territorial, legal and political experiences. He has been struggling to apply them, and like others, has spent more time looking at comparative practicalities than simply the annual festivals of carefully crafted resolutions that accumulate in Geneva or New York.
Returning from his first UN foray in the early...
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