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Stronger Futures hearing a waste of time: Scullion

CLP Senator Nigel Scullion.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Senate committee hearings into the proposed Stronger Futures laws are a waste of time because the government hadn’t fully consulted with Aboriginal communities, the Opposition says.

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NT Aboriginal leaders reject Stronger Futures

A file shot of a protest against the NT intervention.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Aboriginal community leaders and advocates have rejected federal government plans to extend the Howard-era Northern Territory intervention policy, saying they haven’t been properly consulted.

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NT intervention hearings hit the road

A file shot of an anti-Intervention rally in Melbourne. Hearings on the proposed Stronger Futures legislation, which will take over from the intervention, will be held in the NT next week.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Aboriginal community groups are expected to voice their opposition to the federal government’s planned second phase of the Northern Territory intervention, during parliamentary hearings next week.

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Stronger Futures still discriminatory: Nicholson

NATIONAL: A second round intervention in the Northern Territory would racially discriminate against Aboriginal people and fail any potential High Court challenge, a former chief justice says.

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Girl suicide rates rose after intervention

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Suicide rates among Aboriginal girls have jumped since the Northern Territory intervention was introduced five years ago.

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Peak bodies call on government to move on from intervention

NORTHERN TERRITORY: A coalition of Aboriginal peak bodies in the Northern Territory has hit out at the federal government’s Stronger Futures legislation, calling for a departure from the trend of “interventions”.

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Stronger Futures referred to committee; closing date after Christmas

NORTHERN TERRITORY: The controversial Stronger Futures legislation has been referred to parliamentary committee, with the submissions due after Christmas, and before the next Parliamentary sitting.

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We’re not all boozers, NT elders say

NORTHERN TERRITORY: A group of Aboriginal elders says the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention brands all Indigenous people as alcoholics and child molesters.

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Mal Brough lining up for Slipper’s seat

NATIONAL: Peter Slipper has been given a temporary reprieve by his party’s Queensland executive, which has decided to delay a decision on the Sunshine Coast MP’s fate.

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Stronger Futures is the same intervention: Amnesty

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: An international human rights group has called on the Gillard government to move on from the mistakes of the past, warning its Stronger Futures legislation is just a re-badged NT intervention.

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