The Drum  Unfinished business: native title compensation
Opinion The Drum An elder holds an Aboriginal flag  This year
the WA Government is expected to finalise another significant
settlement.  Simon Fergusson: Getty Images  Today's Closing the
Gap speech made clear Tony Abbott's commitment to tackling
Indigenous disadvantage, but as Marcus Priest writes, there is
another sleeping giant from the days of Keating that the Prime
Minister will need to confront: native title compensation.  At
the time of Paul Keating's Redfern Speech in 1992 acknowledging
the dispossession of Aboriginal people, Prime Minister Tony
Abbott was but a pugilistic staffer in the office of Opposition
Leader John Hewson.  Hewson was later to refer to the passage of
Keating's Native Title Act as a "day of shame", but in his
Closing the Gap speech today, Mr Abbott revealed the Keating
speech had a big impact on him.  "My job was to disagree with
everything," Mr Abbott said today.  "While I could quibble with
aspects of that speech, I could