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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - The Australian government Tuesday introduced bills in Parliament to fight child sex abuse among Aborigines, in a plan condemned by critics as discriminatory and an attack on indigenous culture.
In introducing almost 500 pages of legislation, Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough described Outback Aboriginal communities as "a failed society where law and order and behavior have broken down and where women and children are unsafe."
"Do we respond with more of what we've done in the past or do we radically change direction with an intervention strategy matched to the magnitude of the problem?" Brough told Parliament.
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