Fed: ATSIC says giving away assets - report

AAP General News (Australia)
02-19-2005
Fed: ATSIC says giving away assets - report

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission says it's giving away everything
it owns so the federal government can't acquire its assets.

The government is abolishing ATSIC, and its services will be taken over by other agencies
within months.

However, ABC radio says the ATSIC board of commissioners has moved to transfer the
control of its assets to hundreds of indigenous corporations.

ATSIC chairman GEOFF CLARK says the peak indigenous body's valuable art collection
belongs to Aboriginal people.

And he says the ATSIC board believes the organisation's properties should be used to
help Aboriginal people.

A spokesman for Indigenous Affairs Minister AMANDA VANSTONE says her office has not
been formally advised of the resolutions.

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KEYWORD: ATSIC (SYDNEY)

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