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Australia gets first Aboriginal provincial government leader
Arab News Agency Published in Arab News Agency on 14 - 03 - 2013

The first Aboriginal to head a government in Australia took office on Thursday as chief minister of the Northern Territory, after staging a backroom coup.
Adam Giles won a controversial internal party vote on Wednesday, ousting his predecessor who was in Japan at the time.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard hailed Giles' victory, "whatever the circumstances".
"This is a moment in history for indigenous Australians," Gillard told parliament in Canberra.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott echoed the sentiment, noting "tumultuous" times in the territory.
"Still, in a very important sense yesterday was a very auspicious day for our nation," he added.
At a meeting in Darwin on Wednesday Giles claimed the top job with 11 votes of the Country Liberal Party's (CLP) 16 MPs.

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