The Federal Government will shortly announce the extension of income management Australia-wide as part of its reintroduction of the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory.
Jenny Macklin
Sorry Macklin, but we need a new Indigenous Affairs minister
Kevin Rudd has become an expert in paying lip service to symbolic indigenous issues but his government is failing with the NT intervention and its many faults, writes John Tomlinson. Time to look outside the box?
Dealing with Centrelink is a full-time job for some pensioners
Aged pensioners who supplement their pensions with paid employment, even occasionally, must now report their circumstances to Centrelink every fortnight, writes Ava Hubble.
Labor cannot fail Indigenous Australia again
Generally, Labor may have been Aboriginal Australia’s party of choice, but recent challenges with the Coalition implemented NT Intervention highlight Labor’s need to re-engage with Indigenous leadership again, writes The Australian.
Racist, not working: UN bashes NT intervention
Make no mistake, the United Nations’ criticism of Australia’s Northern Territory intervention was a flogging of colonial proportions.
Jenny Macklin’s special brand of consultation
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has discovered an interesting kind of consultation involving fences, writes Chris Graham.
New indigenous advisory body, just don’t call it ATSIC
A new independent indigenous body will elect it’s own representatives, with a 50:50 gender split, from Aboriginal organisations. But unlike it’s predecessor ATSIC, its primary focus will be advocacy.
Guy Rundle: Ozwatch: highlights from the world’s wackiest broadsheet op-ed page
Guy Rundle wraps the highlights from the world’s wackiest broadsheet op-ed page, brought to you by those funsters at The Australian.
Alice camps injunction is down to Macklin
The Federal Court has delayed acquisition of Alice Springs town camps. Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin should have seen this coming.
Anderson quits, NT government on the brink
The ALP may have lost the numbers in the NT parliament, after Minister for Indigenous Policy, Alison Anderson, walked out on her cabinet post this afternoon.
Macklin’s town camp plans stonewalled
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin’s plans for sub-leases on Aboriginal town camp have hit a snag, with the Federal Court granting a temporary injunction following claims town residents were “blackmailed” into the plan.
There’s no Alice town camps deal, not now and not likely
The truth is, the battle for the Alice Springs town camps is just beginning, despite Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin’s latest deal.
Macklin botches Alice Springs town camp compulsory acquisition
Jenny Macklin has botched the compulsory acquisition of the Alice Springs town camps for the second time in as many months, and now faces the prospect of having to cut a deal with Tangentyere Council.
No fairy floss, no show, for NT kids under income management
Thousands of Aboriginal Territorians, half of whose income is controlled through income quarantining and management, won’t be able to access money through their Basic Cards to get into the Royal Darwin Show this week.
Feds build 1000th home in three months… in Rudd’s electorate
Stimulus package housing is one thing, intervention housing quite another, writes Chris Graham.
The truth about the NT intervention and government consultation
The government’s community consultation can never, will never stack up in court as resembling anything like “informed consultation” with Aboriginal people.
Macklin advised not to consult Aboriginals over town camps
Jenny Macklin was advised by her department against formally consulting with Aboriginal people over the compulsory acquisition of their land, reports Chris Graham.
Aboriginal radio banned from Macklin town meeting
Why did Jenny Macklin’s office refuse to let CAAMA Radio record a town meeting on homes she intends to compulsorily acquire? asks Bob Gosford?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: First Dog and the Peter Costello conspiracy
What did First Dog know about Costello’s departure and when did he know it? Readers want answers. Plus climate change, Iran, Indian students and more.
Is Macklin ignoring her own legal advice on town camps acquisition?
No other Australian is asked to surrender land rights to secure basic services, write Alison Vivian and Larissa Behrendt.
Jenny Macklin explains her new Indigenous policy to Walter Slurry
Jenny Macklin on Closing the Gap, as told to Walter Slurry.
Tips and rumours: More Rudd/China connections?
The China conspiracy theorists will love this one!
The ugliest Budget in decades way behind schedule
The Budget process is significantly behind schedule, according to sources in the Canberra bureaucracy, delayed by the continuing collapse in revenue projections and the need to find all possible savings, writes Bernard Keane.
How the NT intervention is harming children
Income management shames those who live under it and takes us back to the days of the mission. It sets Aboriginal people apart from their fellow Australians, writes Irene Fisher.
