World Socialist Web Site: What the 2007 Northern Territory “intervention” reveals about Australia’s Voice referendum
World Socialist Web Site: Australia’s Northern Territory schools crisis shows ongoing impact of 2007 “Intervention”
Last week marked the 10th anniversary of the controversial Northern Territory Emergency Response, better known as the intervention. Kylie Sambo, a 24-year-old Warlmanpa and Warumungu woman from ...
The Coalition has declared the radical Northern Territory intervention, extended by Labor for a further 10 years, should be moving to a "normalisation stage" where Aborigines are leading the reforms ...
The Conversation: Ten years on, it’s time we learned the lessons from the failed Northern Territory Intervention
Ten years on, it’s time we learned the lessons from the failed Northern Territory Intervention
A phoney political debate has developed over the fact that the Northern Territory Labor government in Australia is maintaining a punitive school attendance-based funding model, implemented by the ...
The Conversation: ‘Just ask us, come and see us’. Aboriginal young people in the Northern Territory must be listened to, not punished
The media frenzy about the “crime wave” in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), and the way the Northern Territory and federal governments are responding, are cause for serious concern. Everyone has the right to ...
‘Just ask us, come and see us’. Aboriginal young people in the Northern Territory must be listened to, not punished
Since colonisation, “interventions” to curb Aboriginal “crime” and alcohol have been deployed to control and harm First Nations communities and people. Nowhere is this more true than in the Northern ...
Ten years ago this month, the then prime minister, John Howard, and his Indigenous affairs minister, Mal Brough, launched the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) into remote Indigenous ...