Homelands policy, 1987

Extract from the 1987 homelands policy

‘Return to Country’, the 1987 report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, included an appendix titled ‘Department of Aboriginal Affairs Departmental Guidelines – Homeland centres and outstations’.

To see the 1980s version of Commonwealth policy on Aboriginal homelands, download the appendix (PDF 125kb).

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