With the Federal Election Campaign trail in full swing now, Living Black takes a look at the Coalition and Labor party policies on Indigenous Affairs and how they impact on two different families from two very different worlds.

Yvonne Sim’s has lived in the Sydney Suburb of La Parouse all her life. Her Dad campaigned for citizenship rights in the 1967 referendum. Today she feels not much has changed. She lives in an overcrowded house feels her calls for more housing are constantly being ignored. She says she won’t be voting for the Coalition.

“Damn you Howard, Damn you! You will not get my election vote”.

The Emergency Intervention in to the Northern Territory is a hot election issue in Indigenous affairs.

We speak to one family in a community that embraces the intervention.

Wadeye is situated in the Northern Territory approximately 400kms South West of Darwin.

It’s a community that has been dealing very closely with the Federal Government as opposed to other communities who feel they have been dealing with only ‘messengers’ and not the decision makers themselves.

According to Thamarrurr Council CEO John Berto many promises has already been delivered on including more funding for Sport and Recreation, road upgrades and building more houses.

“We’ve now got about fifteen houses about to be handed over at the end of this year…that’s a lot of houses in one given year”.

Local Community resident Michelle Parmbuk has already made up her mind about who she’ll be voting for;

“Ill vote for John Howard because his doing a lot of work for our community”.

Other community members are not so willing to reveal who they will be voting for, saying that both parties need to put up good polices before they make there decision.