Australia pressed Tony Blair to avoid meeting ‘troublemaker’ 1999 Indigenous delegation, archives reveal
by Ben Quinn and Caroline Davies from World news | The Guardian on (#6YSY4)
Representatives led by Patrick Dodson met Queen but memo reveals PM advised to plead diary problems'
Tony Blair's government was privately lobbied by Australia not to meet representatives of Indigenous communities who were described as troublemakers".
Papers released from Britain's National Archives shed light on the behind-scenes-discussions about a delegation that came to the UK in late 1999.
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