PM to discuss stolen generation compensation today Source: AAP | Published: Tuesday April 18, 3:01 AM Prime Minister John Howard will be asked to create a compensation scheme for the stolen generation when he meets with Northern Territory Aborigines today. Four delegates of the NT Stolen Generation AboriginalCorporation and their lawyer have an appointment with Mr Howard in his parliament house office at 6pm for a meeting organised last week in an attempt to avert a protest. Mr Howard would be asked to create a compensation mechanism to resolve the 2,100 stolen generation cases before the federal court in Darwin, Northern Australia Aboriginal Legal Service solicitor Koulla Roussos said. The mechanism would combine compensation - which the government has refused to pay - with the $63 million the government promised in response to the 1997 Bringing Them Home report on past assimilation policies. "We're looking at combining services that should be available to stolen generation people as a result of the $63 million allocation and also combining compensation entitlements for the reparation mechanism," Ms Roussos said. Mr Howard will attend a cabinet meeting and the opening of a Korean War memorial in Canberra before meeting the Aboriginal delegation. -- _________________________________ Truth is a pathless land. --- Krishnamurti ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
