Independent NT politician Yingiya Guyula says the $4 million already spent on the treaty process has been squandered.
In its response, the NT government said instead of maintaining the commission, it had decided to hold a series of First Nations forums over the next 18 months to two years to "test" whether Aboriginal Territorians agree with the commission's recommendations or not, and to and close the commission.
The government also plans to start a truth telling process by getting its Aboriginal Interpreter Service to start recording peoples' stories."After these recommendations came through from the independent commissioner, the NT government took it back into their own bureaucracy," Mr Guyula said. "And now they're going to put it back into a discussion within the government itself, it's just going around and around and around in circles."
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