<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/399eb824-4bd1-4298-b213-dd949cf85dcd/E2A10875-64EB-468A-97A3-F297583D1179/" 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/chStory04n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04n.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/chStory04n.htm">THE Rural City of Wangaratta will introduce its own formal recognition of indigenous Australians through a new protocol to be put to councillors tomorrow night.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></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/chStory04n.htm"><P>But the gesture is expected to be met with mixed reactions from a community divided in its stance on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology.</p> <P>At the centre of the dispute is Sophie Mirabella (MHR, Indi) who did not attend Parliament during Wednesday’s proceedings with the belief it was not supported by the majority of her constituents.</p> <P>She labelled the move as "<B>divisive</B>" and “hasty”, and said there should have been further debate on the definition of ‘stolen generation’.</p> <P>At the same time, a team of local voters were organising a rally of their own to say sorry, and a petition calling for Mrs Mirabella to say sorry.</p> <P>The rally will be held this Thursday in the King George Gardens.</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/E2A10875-64EB-468A-97A3-F297583D1179/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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