My name's Linda Burney and I'm from south western New South Wales.
I'm a member of the Wiradjuri nation and we have a huge land area, the Wiradjuri.
It covers the Lachlan, the MacQuarie and the Murrumbidgee Rivers.
The enormous effort of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in  
the 70s to demand and realise self-determination through the
establishment of legal services, children's services, 
Aboriginal medical services, Aboriginal pre-schools is being slowly and surely
whittled away - not by those communities, by in fact 
the philosophical position of government.