Grattan: Keeping the faithThe problems that continue to face indigenous communities, despite repeated government attempts — and failures — to address them doesn’t bode well for the latest plan, says Michelle Grattan, but both sides must retain hope.
NT Intervention
UN envoy: NT intervention racist
The UN’s special rapporteur on indigenous rights Professor James Anaya has delivered a damning report card on the NT intervention, labeling it “discriminatory”, “demeaning” and “racist”. Read his full statement here.
Why don’t we hear these stories about Aboriginal Australia?
You might not guess it from the photos in the newspapers, but the largest concentration of Aboriginal people in Australia lives in western Sydney, writes anthropologist Professor Gillian Cowlishaw.
Time to start making sense, Galarrwuy
Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu has dumped a bucket on the NT intervention — a policy that only two years ago had his support Chris Graham is confused.
NT issues are pretty black and white
The political mess that is the NT continues to worsen, with a troubled public service, lack of services to indigenous communities and reliance on the federal government.
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.
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.
Mungo MacCallum: Calling for a government restructure to address Aboriginal issues
The one size fits all approach of the intervention is plainly inappropriate to societies as diverse as Indigenous Australia, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Australia’s human rights record under attack
Australia’s human rights record has come under scrutiny by the international watchdog, writes Dan Ziffer.
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.
Who speaks for Aboriginal people? You, Warren Mundine?
With the NT Intervention again in the news, Kim Hill wasn’t pulling his punches.
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.
Yeast search raises questions about NT police powers
Respected members of the Galiwin’ku community on Elcho Island, NT, have had their house searched by police looking for yeast, without a warrant, writes Eleri Harris.
Another day, another broken promise to black Australia
Chris Graham writes: welcome to the ‘Big-Kev-Crazy-Crazy-Crazy-Patriot-Everything’s-Gotta-Go-Black-Promises-Sale!’
An infuriated Justice Kirby’s last day in court
Is it any wonder that Michael Kirby should excoriate the conservatism of his colleagues as he did yesterday in the NT Intervention case? Asks Greg Barns.
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.
Remember the 2020 summit? Whatever happened to those Big Ideas…?
The Rudd Government may have hit the ground reviewing but that hasn’t meant it was totally in tune with the collective mindset of a number of summit groups, write Bernard Keane and Eleri Harris.
Safe houses in the NT – a $21 million “massive stuff-up”
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has labelled the NT intervention safe house initiative a “massive stuff-up,” reports 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.
NT intervention: Aboriginal Australians take their case to the UN
It is not surprising that Aboriginal Australians who have been denied justice in Australia will now embark upon a complaint to the United Nations in order to achieve change, writes George Newhouse.
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.
