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Brough holding us to ransom, says Tiwi community
Friday, 10 November 2006 9:35:12 AM
By Tara Ravens

DARWIN, November 10, 2006: An Aboriginal community says it is being held to ransom over federal government demands that it agrees to a 99-year lease.

Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Mal Brough on Wednesday told a remote community on the Tiwi islands north of Darwin that the islands would only get a new school if it agreed to a 99-year lease.

Mr Brough delivered the ultimatum when he visited the community of Nguiu on Bathurst Island.

A boarding school for Tiwi Island youth is planned for nearby Melville Island.

But …