NT: Nation's first female Aboriginal govt minister on the job

AAP General News (Australia)
02-06-2004
NT: Nation's first female Aboriginal govt minister on the job

By Karen Michelmore

DARWIN, Feb 6 AAP - When Australia's first female Aboriginal government minister walks
into Northern Territory parliament later this month she'll be fighting nervous butterflies.

Marion Scrymgour is a strong woman who once famously ripped into former federal minister
Bronwyn Bishop for failing Aborigines on aged care.

She said she developed a tough shell to survive more than a decade in the "nasty and
downright dirty" world of black politics, before entering parliament.

But while she has trod the …