Concerns about the Northern Territory Police’s call centre operations have been around for a while.
Remote aboriginal communities
The cunning of consultation: school attendance and welfare reform
Kids, even in remote indigenous Australia, do not live by school attendance alone, they also need food. And families with no income will inevitably become an economic burden for others in their community, writes Jon Altman.
Cox: new intervention proposals … same old, same old
A new consultation process on more intervention proposals does not please the many critics of the current version’s costly failures.
Big Ideas Larissa Behrendt: indigenous policy — three fixes in three minutes
There have been claims that plenty of money has been spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with little impact. Here are three targeted policy initiatives that would give guaranteed good results, writes Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and director of research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology.
Why the NT Intervention might be good news
In an ideal world we would not have workforce shortages anywhere in Australia. But we do. And just maybe the NT Intervention is an effective short term way of recruiting new blood, writes Dr Sue Page.
