The UN Committee that monitors breaches of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) will report on its examination of Australia this weekend.
NT Intervention
Crikey Says: Where to from here?
As we hit the publish button, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin is announcing the passage of the welfare reform bill, thereby restoring the Racial Discrimination Act.
NT intervention three years on: government’s progress report is disturbing
Today we are halfway through the Howard government’s original normalisation phase for the NT intervention and the latest six-monthly report is both serious and disturbing, writes Professor Jon Altman.
Cox: Should we base policy on opinions or evidence?
MP Jenny Macklin says that she hears positive feedback from women about income management in the NT intervention, yet all evidence shows IM doesn’t work. How do you balance personal claims against expert evidence? asks Eva Cox.
Senators, don’t use women’s needs as an excuse for bad policy
Since when did feminism condone compulsory loss of rights for categories of women? Please don’t use women’s needs as an excuse for bad policy as it sounds a bit like Phillip Ruddock wearing his Amnesty badge while persecuting asylum seekers.
Federal NT intervention will cause more harm than good: new report
The Intervention into indigenous communities in the NT — started by the Howard government and continued under Rudd’s watch — is likely to cause more health problems than it fixes, says a damning health report, writes Melissa Sweet.
The Ampilatwatja walk-off: why the Intervention doesn’t work
Bob Gosford sits down under a shady tree to discuss the NT intervention and income management with Richard Downs of the Alyawarr people, who walked away from the nearby township of Ampilatwatja to camp on Aboriginal freehold land.
Larissa Behrendt talks: postcards, the walk-off and the Intervention
Bob Gosford chats to Professor Larissa Behrendt about some hot-button issues affecting Indigenous Australians — including the sale of postcards featuring naked Aboriginal children.
Slurry: our moral fibre is pushing up daises
John Coates tells Walter Slurry about the demise of Australia…
Income management works. Roll it out.
The government’s plan to extend income management beyond the NT intervention to the rest of Australia is good policy, says former Howard government adviser David Moore. Tough love is needed to protect women and children.
Jenny Macklin turns a deaf ear to intervention gripes
Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin is waging a PR war on the findings of a report critical of the government’s NT intervention.
Racial equality impossible under the constitution
One hundred and forty years after the firstAboriginal Protection Act, Indigenous peoples in Australia are still being subjected to regimes of surveillance, control and discrimination, says Dr Aron Paul.
After the NT intervention: violence up, malnutrition up, truancy up
The latest, and arguably most comprehensive findings, on progress in the Northern Territory intervention are damning of its effectiveness and extremely disappointing, says Jon Altman.
Intervention lets Territory grog runners walk free
Canberra is weak as piss on grog in the Northern Territory, and several NT Magistrates are angry that their sentencing options for grog-runners have been seriously compromised by the Intervention.
Drink to the end of an Intervention era
The NT intervention is going military, writes our NT insider, with a leaked invite to a going away party for NT boss of the Department of Family and Community Services, Housing and Indigenous Affairs, Brian Stacey.
Intervention’s welfare management to extend across Australia
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.
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?
What happened to the NT intervention?
It’s been over two years since the NT intervention barged into indigenous communities with racist practises that wouldn’t be acceptable in non-indigenous Australia, says Alistair Nicholson.
Green economy could grow remote Australia
Indigenous Australians should be included in debates on the distribution of natural resources, because a green economy presents an opportunity for progress in regional and Indigenous communities, writes Patrick Dodson.
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.
We should be welcome UN’s Intervention interfering
Last week, the UN’s special rapporteur on indigenous rights released his criticisms of the NT intervention, much to the chagrin of many Aussie pollies. However, Australia shouldn’t continue to ignore objective international advice, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Peter Costello and the alleged ABC bias
Crikey readers weigh in on Peter Costello and whether the ABC does have an editorial bias, the late US Senator Ted Kennedy and the Northern Territory intervention.
Has Anderson finally gone bush and joined the “anti-interventionistas”?
After consistently supporting the Northern Territory Intervention, former MLA Alison Anderson appears to have done a political backflip and withdrawn her approval of the program, reports Bob Gosford.
Australia: the pot calling the kettle black in the pacific
Australia’s treatment of its own indigenous people seriously undercuts its credibility as a moral leader on human rights in the pacific region, says the Fiji Daily Post.
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.
