IT has long been recognised the Aboriginal community of Bathurst is a splintered and fragmented group.
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This was one of the main arguments advanced by the now defunct ATSIC in its takeover of Bathurst Towri some years ago.
Unfortunately, the fragmentation of the Bathurst Aboriginal community is still in evidence and existence today, highlighted by the present-day friction between the two peak Aboriginal organisations in Bathurst, the Bathurst Local Aboriginal Land Council and Bathurst Wiradyuri Elders, over the location of the go-kart track.
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While Bathurst Regional Council's recent approval for the go-ahead for the go-kart track on Mount Panorama is seen as a victory for the Bathurst Kart Club, it is a major catalyst in furthering the divide, differences and diversities between Bathurst's two peak Aboriginal organisations, destroying any chance of social cohesion, unity and reconciliation between the two groups and only continuing the fragmentation.
A victory for one, a tragedy for another.
