<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9f4e7d19-7d7b-4183-bb32-d5446a145217/B497920F-9ED1-4FB8-930A-F5081A7376FF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory07n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory07n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory07n.htm"><P>A NORTH East indigenous group has called for the abolition of the Aboriginal Affairs Victoria (AAV) office in Wangaratta following a dispute over local rock art.</p> <P>The Dhudhuroa Native Title Group has accused the AAV of being paternalistic and of undermining traditional owners in the Mudgegonga area near Myrtleford.</p> <P>"<B>The funding of this office is an affront to all traditional owners across the state,</B>" group co-chair, Gary Murray, said.</p> <P>"<B>The hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay non-indigenous bureaucrats to peddle and meddle in our cultural heritage would be better allocated to the traditional owners.</B>"</p> <P>The attack comes as AAV prepares to commence restoration work on Aboriginal rock art at six major sites in Mudgegonga on Monday.</p> <P>The project, which will impact on 450 motifs dating back more than 3000 years, will be funded by the AAV and involve members of the Dhudhuroa, Waywurru and Taungurung tribes.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B497920F-9ED1-4FB8-930A-F5081A7376FF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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