I never quite understood how Mal Brough managed to escape genuine mainstream media scrutiny so often during his brief but, shall we say, “exciting” time in Indigenous affairs. Unfortunately for Brough, however, the media didn’t get to decide the outcome of the contest for his parliamentary seat.
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Why do Aboriginal people have to give up rights for services?
I don’t support the NT intervention, and I happen to think that Mal Brough is an all-singing, all-dancing clown. But I do think Aboriginal kiddies in the central desert finally getting access to a basic health check is a good thing. And I think it’s great that some Aboriginal communities are, for the first time in their history, seeing a full-time police presence.
Tips and rumours
Federal government newspaper advertising has been cancelled from next week. What could this possibly mean?
Rumours are flying around the NT about a recent punch up between Mal Brough and his colleague NT Senator Nigel Scullion. They were at Lasseters Hotel Casino in Alice Springs when fisticuffs broke out. One eyewitness says Scullion hit first but […]
Mal Brough: you’re either with us, or against them
Melbourne University was the venue last night for Indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough to present the annual Alfred Deakin Lecture, on “The emergency response to protect Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory”.
Club Yunupingu: Brough’s land deal of last resort
The Black Prince of north east Arnhem Land and long time chairman of the Northern Land Council Galarrwuy Yunupingu, has set himself up at loggerheads with Aboriginal leaders throughout Australia with the signing yesterday of a memorandum of understanding with Indigenous Affairs minister Mal Brough.
Workforce participation minister pushes 6000 on to the dole
Dr Sharman Stone is being nothing if not creative in trying to justify her colleagues’ approach to axing the Community Development Employment Program. And that starts with her title.
700 checks, two abuse referrals: the NT intervention in action
When John Howard and Mal Brough announced the “national emergency” over child sexual abuse it was seen by many people as an appropriate call to arms. It seemed logical – even necessary – that the army should be included in the strategy. So what has the result been so far?
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Peter Garrett embraces the dark side … Brough’s takeover targets … APEC … Horse flu … Iraq is the new Vietnam … Andrew Johns … online pirates beware … ATM fees …
Brough gets lost in the Territory
It’s now clear that the act of parliament that set out the “prescribed communities” will have to be changed. Word has it that an overlay has been done on one of the Top End’s largest Aboriginal communities, to find that about 90% of the community has been left out.
Brough’s takeover targets: a shopping mall, a car yard, a pipeline …
Earlier this year, Aboriginal MP Karl Hampton opened extensions to the Yeperenye shopping centre. The trouble with this shopping centre, for people like Mr Brough, is that it is owned by Aboriginal people, writes Henri Ivrey.
NT intervention: it’s urgent, but we’ll take Xmas off
When Prime Minister Howard and Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough made their big announcement about the National Emergency in Aboriginal Affairs in the Northern Territory it reminded many of us here in central Australia about Colin Powell’s United Nations speech on the Iraq emergency.
Spin v reality: Alice anger over intervention legislation
A fiery public meeting of 300 people in Alice Springs yesterday was told by Indigenous leader Pat Turner that the Federal Government’s intervention legislation was “a national shame”, writes Graham Ring from Alice Springs.
No protection for ceremonial and sorry business in the NT
Crikey has seen legal advice on how Brough’s new laws will negatively affect Aboriginal religious and ceremonial practices, particularly in relation to the closure of land and country outside of the townships now seized by the Commonwealth, writes Bob Gosford.
The CLP, booze-cruisers and the price of a drink
There are serious political consequences for Federal Minister for Community Services, Senator Nigel Scullion , Federal MP Dave Tollner and local Country Liberal Party (CLP) MLA Terry Mills arising out of the recent CLP fundraising booze-cruise to the Tiwi Islands north of Darwin, writes Bob Gosford.
Nguiu leases might be 99 years in coming
Adam Kerinaua was always a gutsy footy player—part of a great tradition of Tiwi Aussie Rules players prepared to take on bigger opponents. He played in the forward pocket for the Brisbane Lions in his teens, and ended his playing days for St Marys as full forward. And it’s been that way over the last few months in his opposition to the Mal Brough push for a 99-year lease over the Bathurst Island township of Nguiu.
Brough exercises his work choices, fires 8,000 workers
Indigenous affairs Mal Brough is forcing Aboriginal people out of work in order to make them reliant on welfare. Seems strange but there is a logic at work here, albeit a perverse political one. Read on.
The Tuesday Top 20 (on Wednesday)
The changing of the guard on Spring Street – and other state pollies trying to crash the party – means we’ve got a very different list of acts in the Crikey/Media Monitors Top 20.
Tiwi lease gives the lie to Aboriginal permit policy
A document has fallen into the hands of Crikey that clearly reveals that, if Aboriginal communities tow the line, they can retain the permit system—irregardless of the national emergency over child abuse on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, writes Henry Ivrey.
Scrapping CDEP is just dumb, dumb, dumb
Ministers Joe Hockey and Mal Brough’s decision to abolish the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in remote Indigenous communities in the NT will have marked impacts on the arts industry, the management of Indigenous Protected Areas, and community based Caring for Country ranger projects. And it’s not just these success stories that will suffer; it’s likely that there will be wider local, regional and national costs from this myopic ill-considered policy shift, writes Jon Altman.
Brough schedules Tiwi showdown on Show Day
Mal Brough’s decision to hold a meeting with Tiwi traditional owners to finalise the 99-year lease of Nguiu on Bathurst Island during the Darwin Show is a Machiavellian one.
Local Government in the NT – Howard & Brough’s plan for privatisation by stealth?
Local Government in the NT has been in a mess for decades and Howard and Brough’s intervention is about to make it a lot worse, according to Kerry Moir, President of the NT’s Local Government Association.
Airing the truth on NT permit changes
From day one of Howard and Brough’s concocted emergency in the NT, the proposed changes to the permit system under the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act stood out as having only the most tenuous connection to the issue of addressing child abuse in remote NT Aboriginal communities.
NT mining royalties land in Mal Brough’s Queensland electorate
Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough took $100,000 from Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory and gave it to the organisers of a cultural festival in his own Queensland electorate of Longman, writes Chris Graham.
What is needed for the Howard/Brough plan to work
Here’s what experience might tell us about the chances of success of the Howard/Brough plan for Aboriginal Australia, writes David Coles, former Northern Territory public servant, in Club Troppo
Grog to become compulsory in the NT
There’s times when it’s no consolation to say that you read it in Crikey first. There’s some things you just don’t want to be right about.
