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Aboriginal lawyer launches his Senate campaign for Federal election

 Independent Senate candidate Ribnga Green launches campaign for Federal Election AN ABORIGINAL Senate candidate has likened the nation’s soft foreign ownership laws to the takeover of Australia by the first Europeans.  Miles Kemp adelaidenow May 12, 2013

Speaking at his campaign launch at Rymill Park yesterday, independent candidate Ribnga Green, 59, said South Australia’s iconic agricultural areas such as the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale must be better protected from foreign investors.

Mr Green, an Adelaide lawyer, aims to be the first South Australian Aboriginal politician at the Federal election in September. He said if elected he would push for agricultural areas of Australia, including SA’s wine regions, to be declared essential to the “national interest”.

“I know what it is like to lose an entire continent as an Aboriginal person and I wonder if Australian people generally value the whole issue of land ownership,” Mr Green said.  “There are food-bowl areas which should be protected in the national interest and as part of Australia’s ability to supply food to other areas of the world, also.

“Land is also something which is not just a commercial enterprise but a spiritual one.

“Valuing land for reasons other than commercial value is something I think I can share with the rest of Australia.”…… http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/independent-senate-candidate-ribnga-green-launches-campaign-for-federal-election/story-e6frea83-1226640641295

May 13, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL