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Amid the national outpouring of comment, get-togethers, and discussion forums in late May 2007 around the anniversary of the 1967 Aboriginal Constitutional referendum, another constitutional event almost slipped below the radar. On May 28 the Legal and Constitutional Affairs (LACA) committee of the House of Representatives, Canberra, issued its report on Northern Territory statehood (see also Arena Magazine 88).
The report, The Long Road to Statehood, makes only one recommendation: 'that the Australian Government update and refine its position on Northern Territory statehood and re-commence work on unresolved federal issues.' This, indeed, was something which the Northern Territory legislature and Statehood committees had asked for. The federal authorities, for their part, had made clear to LACA in a February hearing and, through Minister Philip Ruddock to bi-partisan NT representatives the same day, that they awaited a consensus in the NT on...
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