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.
Jenny Macklin
What if the Senate held an inquiry into remote stores — and nobody came?
On 5 February, 2008, the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Affairs held one of its two scheduled public hearings. One witness turned up, writes Bob Gosford.
ACCC alert: Macklin decides where dollars go in Yuendumu
Kevin Rudd’s Christmas bonuses will flow right past the Big Shop, straight into the tills of Outback Stores or down the 300 kilometres of rough roads to Alice Springs, writes Bob Gosford.
Yuendumu video — “The Intervention is rubbish”
The controversy about the conduct of and reports by some members of the media that travelled to Yuendumu to cover the opening of the new local swimming pool continues, writes Bob Gosford.
Yuendumu: the pool, the press, protocols and permits
There are real local concerns about false links between the swimming pool and Macklin’s NT Intervention and whether journalists get and write their stories in a fair, balanced way, writes Bob Gosford.
‘My name was used telling lies’: the media come to Yuendumu
Minister Macklin made no connection between the Yuendumu Pool and the Intervention. But then, she didn’t have to. Others did that job for her, writes Bob Gosford.
Yuendumu to Macklin: ‘We don’t want this intervention’
Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin was yesterday given a statement signed by 236 members of the 914-strong Yuendumu community.
The NTER review board – an opportunity lost
Jenny Macklin asked for an independent review and, when she didn’t like the findings, the submissions and the mounting evidence, she rejected it out of hand, write Larissa Behrendt and Nicole Watson.
NT intervention: Macklin ignores review board in favour of anecdotes
Minister Macklin has responded very swiftly to reject the key recommendation of the NTER Review Board that she appointed, writes Jon Altman.
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 doctors thumbs down for NT intervention
If this is an independent and transparent process, then I’m a monkey’s uncle, writes Melissa Sweet.
Questions for Jenny Macklin
Some questions concerning the proposed Federal law to fine parents of non-attending students.
I was watching Channel 10 on Saturday night
From little things…
Aurukun Wetland Charters: The Australian got it wrong
The Australian chose to portray Aurukun Wetland Charters in a negative light. This was clearly an opportunity to report on something positive and instead was simply a headline grab, writes Aurukun Wetland Charters manager Tony Varnes.
The Oz’s SS Macklin yarn deserves to sink without a trace
Can any of this be actually regarded as journalism? asks Chris Graham.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The simple facts are that The Australian’s MV Pikkuw story was an erroneous beat up.
The Australian’s SS Macklin has holes in it
Quite a few of what we call “facts” were omitted from today’s Oz story on Macklin’s luxury boat stay. And here they are, writes Chris Graham.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The evidence is in. Jenny Macklin at the Press Club yesterday on indigenous welfare v Kevin Rudd at his press conference on binge drinking.
The Media Monitors’ Top 20
Popularity is probably no-comopensation for NSW premier Morris Iemma, who has leapt up the charts this week on the back of various unravellings.
More bad figures for Nelson: Morgan
Opposition leader Brendan Nelson has clocked up his second nine per cent in a week, writes Christian Kerr.
Aboriginal Australia: the hard line according to Jenny Macklin
Did Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin use Sorry Day to announce a policy position that would have provoked uproar if it came from the Coalition? That’s what appears to have happened on The 7:30 Report last night, writes Christian Kerr.
Rudd says much more than just sorry
Some days the Commonwealth Parliament is truly the heart of the nation – or maybe the soul, the place from where the mood of the nation stems, eloquent of tongue and generous of spirit. Today was one of these, writes Christian Kerr .
The Media Monitors Top 20
Not much movement in the Top Five, with Morris Iemma celebrating the Year of the Rat by being ubiquitous if not exactly popular.
The Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20
Dr Nelson may or may not be sorry that he has finally received enough coverage this week to get him up to second in the Tuesday Top Twenty.
