Garawa elder is challenging Labor incumbent Gerry McCarthy in the seat of Barkly,which ALP has held since 1990Prominent Aboriginal campaigner and artist Jack Green will stand as an independent in the upcoming Northern Territory election, hoping to give remote-living Indigenous Territorians a voice.
The Garawa elder from Borroloola in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, or announced his candidacy external Parliament House in Darwin on Thursday,and said his years of activism and butting up against the government have trained him well for the combat of parliament.
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Source: theguardian.com