For us it is more of a business issue, but essentially we are no longer going to play. The letter has now been sent through and we will wait for the storm.
The bigger issue is that the well meaning government wanted to improve conditions in indigenous communities, and maybe in some there has been improvement, but in the community we have been involved with, I can only see a whole bunch of extra (poorly trained) government employees trying to justify their existence, at great cost to the general community and the businesses involved. (I guess we got(we paid) satellite internet out of it)
The indigenous people of this community were already doing OK and the intervention (IMHO) has done nothing to make things better for them. Not to say that it hasn't helped some people elsewhere.
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