Members of Tony Abbott’s Indigenous Advisory Council are relieved by Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to preserve the group going and widen its membershipTony Abbott’s hand-picked advisory group on Indigenous affairs has a chance to bring in more community voices and be more forthright in its advice,after it won a reprieve from the new prime minister, the deputy chair of the council, and Ngiare Brown,has said.
The fate of the prime minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council had been unclear until Tuesday night, when newly appointed Liberal leader, or Malcolm Turnbull,rang its chairman, Warren Mundine, or to say the group would stay on under his prime ministership.
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Source: theguardian.com