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Phillipa McDermott:
"As part of our news and current affairs information and also
looking at our people in our community, we try to provide
a service that bests explains the current situation: whether
it's political, environmental, economic, or what have you,
whatever the debate of the day is, through our radio service,
and we try to provide that in a plain English sort of sense,
whether the - and also including debates about native title,
UN treaties, or whatever the issue is. And basically, you
know, those sorts of issues, of course, are totally relevant
to our Aboriginal people, and non-Aboriginal people. But are
only heard from a non-indigenous perspective. So there again
in a contemporary form, we try to analyse the situation, and
we get that analysis from our senior sort of broadcasters
and from other areas, our people from universities, and what
have you, to analyse those situations, and put down what the
real issues are for Aboriginal people. And you know, that
might - that usually is the eroding away of our rights, in
one form or another. And for Aboriginal people in our community
in Sydney, in the urban community, to understand how important
it is for us to keep fighting, to still fight on for those
rights. Because they are not enshrined in any sort of legal
document, and therefore they can be taken away from us at
the drop of a hat, which is what, you know, previous, and
this government, have been trying to do."
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