Author and anthropologist Peter Sutton talks to Marcia Langton about the declining standards of health and education in remote indigenous communities, and what needs to be done to address it.
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Video of the Day: The jig is up: Peter Sutton and Marcia Langton
Up to their ankles in sewage, a remote community’s patience runs out
The NT community of Ampilatwatja is overrun with raw sewage, and with complete inaction from the government, the residents have finally cracked.
Intervention tension festers in the Territory
The postponement of the NTER Review Board report is characteristic of the whole unhappy intervention adventure, writes Graham Ring.
Indigenous broadcasters pin Peter Garrett to the wall
Forget the paintings minister, and start by giving broadcasters some walls, writes Ellie Rennie.
Mungatopi up on drug charges
Northern Territory Country Liberal Party candidate and prominent indigenous Catholic Tristan Mungatopi has been charged with drug possession, writes Bernard Keane.
Crikey Policy Comparison Pt 4: Indigenous affairs
The government’s 500 page bill on the Indigenous intervention raced through the lower house of federal parliament and stopped to catch its breath — albeit fleetingly — in a senate committee before becoming law. So how do the two major parties differ on the issue?
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.
Chaney and Calma: Let’s tackle the invisible gorilla of indigenous affairs
Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Fred Chaney, Director of Reconciliation Australia, addressed the National Press Club yesterday. Their message: let’s talk long term.
How to overcome indigenous disadvantage: Productivity Commission chairman tells
This evening, Gary Banks, chairman of the Productivity Commission, will deliver a speech entitled ‘Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage in Australia’ to the Second OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy”, in Istanbul, Turkey. To follow are some timely extracts.
The Tuesday Top Twenty
Peter Costello has been toppled. The Treasurer has tumbled down the charts in this week’s Crikey/Media Monitors Top Twenty, pushed out by a trio of premiers – Peter Beattie, Morris Iemma and Steve Bracks.
Save the children, yes, but what’s with the land grab?
One of the most worrying aspects of the Government’s proposal is the plan to further amend the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT) so as to scrap the permit system to enter Aboriginal land and to allow the Federal Government to acquire whichever Aboriginal townships it chooses under five-year leases, writes Sam de Silva.
Tom Calma: More questions than answers
My concern with the Federal Government’s proposal is that it doesn’t put in place the preventative measures that indigenous people need to stop the violence, and then prevent it from reoccurring, writes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 22 June, 2007
Rudd does a Beazley.
