The Senate Committee report into my legislation on a compensation system for the Stolen Generations was tabled yesterday. The Committee didn’t directly support a national system of compensation, but did put forward some other useful recommendations. Read more »

Brendan Nelson has reportedly pulled the Coalition out of the federal government’s “bipartisan commission on Indigenous housing”, apparently because “Mr Rudd refused to include former Indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough in the group.” Read more »

Pre-Budget speculation gets fairly tiresome after a while – mostly just scene setting leaks and people writing and saying things to fill the space before they have something substantial to write and talk about.  Budget night provides the relief of actually getting into the real thing after a lot of mostly empty shadow-boxing. Read more »