NT: Jabiluka trespass case could affect all Aborigines = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-1999
NT: Jabiluka trespass case could affect all Aborigines = 2

Mr Dalrymple said it was easy but racist to stereotype Aborigines living in the bush as
stuck in the traditional ways of the past.

"Yvonne Margarula is a modern woman; although she is a woman of the bush she is allowed to
have modern motives," he said.

"She believed it was her duty to protect the country from a threat to it."

He said the law allowing Aboriginal people to live on their traditional land under the
Northern Territory's Land Rights …