Senator Rachel Siewert delivers an apology to the Forgotten Australians - children who were physically, sexually and emotionally abused while in Australian orphanages, babies homes and foster care - in the Senate on behalf of the Australian Greens.

This footage was sent to us by the West Timor Care Foundation, and is just one of many reports in the past several weeks about impacts of the oil spill on the people of Indonesia.

The video appears to show that oil is impacting on legal fishing grounds for Indonesian fishers. We have also heard reports of oil much closer to the Indonesian coast during the past several weeks - and as yet these reported sightings of oil and dead fish are apparently yet to be investigated by Australian authorities.

If your government told you where and how you could spend your money, wouldn't you feel outraged?

If your government said it would only fix essential services to your property as long as you agreed to hand over control of your property for a fixed amount of time, wouldn't that sound ridiculous?

If someone came from outside your community and imposed upon you, your family and friends a system that you could plainly see would cause more problems than it solves, wouldn't you stand up and shout NO!

The truth is, this is how your Government treats Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory. In the NT this is the law. Aboriginal people have been standing up and shouting NO but their voices have been ignored.

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