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The NT intervention is unravelling: Altman
Fortunately, the full intervention fiasco has only been rolled out to a handful of communities. This was because of incompetence resulting from lack of adequate consultation and reluctance to collaborate with effective community-based Indigenous organizations. So calling an immediate moratorium on the intervention and urgently reviewing its workability and sustainability would make good policy sense, writes Jon Altman.
“Going for Growth” in crime, prisons and taxes
The Coalition Government’s Election 2007 Policy, “Tough on Drugs”, was released over the weekend. If this desperate policy is ever implemented, we can be confident of a growth in crime which will require increased resources for police and prisons and which in turn can only be paid for by increased taxes.
Abolishing CDEP: Coming soon to a community near you
The abolition of CDEP under the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention is proceeding in many Indigenous communities, but the transition process isn’t always a smooth one, reports Thomas Hunter..
Mal Brough and the command(eer) economy
Hidden in the 500 or so pages of the government’s National Emergency Response legislation is Mal Brough’s plan to commandeer community stores — an extraordinary move, which would be inconceivable anywhere else in Australia.
Brough exercises his work choices, fires 8,000 workers
Indigenous affairs Mal Brough is forcing Aboriginal people out of work in order to make them reliant on welfare. Seems strange but there is a logic at work here, albeit a perverse political one. Read on.
