NT Intervention

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin and Member for Lingiari and Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowdon launching the Stronger Futures report earlier this year.

NATIONAL: Australia’s Catholic bishops have urged the Senate to block daft legislation to extend the Northern Territory intervention in Aboriginal communities.

Dhurili leader Reverend Djiniyini Gondarra is an outspoken opponent of the Gillard government’s controversial Stronger Futures policy. (AFP PHOTO/BEN STANSALL)

NATIONAL: The Stronger Futures legislation, which will expand the NT intervention, has not yet passed the Senate. JEFF MCMULLEN* believes Australia should stand against the discriminatory bills.

NATIONAL: The federal government will spend more than half a billion dollars over the next 10 years to improve Indigenous education in the Northern Territory.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks as Minister for Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon (left), Northern Territory Chief Minister Paul Henderson (2nd from right) and Minister for Indigenous affairs Jenny Macklin (right) look on at Hidden Valley Town Camp, Alice Springs in June last year. The Prime Minister was visiting Alice Springs to meet locals and assess the progress of the Northern Territory intervention. (AAP Image/Grenville Turner)

NATIONAL: The opportunity to shine a light on the atrocious Stronger Futures legislation came about more through good luck than good management, writes PROF JON ALTMAN.

NATIONAL: Liberal frontbencher Christopher Pyne has backed calls to put a minimum price on alcohol in the Northern Territory to curb drunkenness.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: The federal government plans to spend $825 million over the next ten years to boost policing and services in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

NATIONAL: There is palpable pain in Indigenous communities, a Labor senator says, as the federal government navigates the next phase of the NT intervention.

NATIONAL: The federal government’s plan to extend the Northern Territory intervention for 10 more years could be thwarted in the Senate later this week.

A file shot of a protest against the NT intervention.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Human rights activists have criticised government plans to extend the Northern Territory intervention, saying it is a cancer killing Aboriginal communities.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: A jump in the number of Indigenous people who contracted a bacterial disease in 2009/10 has been linked to the federal government’s intervention in outback Aboriginal communities.

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