Your message might as well be a government press release and reflects only one side of the discussion.

If you to ask EITHER the aboriginal groups themselves OR the businesses that are looking to develop resources you will hear a very different story, just as you would in Canada.

In fact if you subtract the place names and talk to most people in Australia about issues surrounding indigenous people you would get basically the exact same kind of comments as you would get here in Canada, both positive and negative.  Our two countries very closely mirror one another in this and many other ways.