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Marion Scrymgour
 Elected member for the electorate of Arafura, Northern Territory
Minister for Family and Community Services, the Environment and Heritage &
Minister Assisting the Chief Minister on Women, Youth and Seniors
Marion Scrymgour is the first Aboriginal woman to be a minister in any government in Australia. She entered parliament with the explicit aim of improving the lives of Aboriginal women and children.
"One of the main reasons why I stood for this position was to get the issues that affect Indigenous women and children out into the open and on the table for discussion," says Marion. Read more ...
On October, Ms Scrymgour delivered the inaugural Charles Perkins Oration, in which she attacked the federal government over its controversial intervention into NT Aboriginal communities. The title of her address is 'Whose national emergency? Caboolture and Kirribili? or Milikapiti and Mutitjulu?'
Coverage of her views is in the video clips below.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2007/10/24/2069626.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2007/10/24/2068933.htm
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