NATIONAL: Australia’s Catholic bishops have urged the Senate to block daft legislation to extend the Northern Territory intervention in Aboriginal communities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NORTHERN TERRITORY: Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists around the country make their voices known about the controversial Stronger Futures legislation.
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NATIONAL: The first march of the 40th anniversary was peaceful, but attracted little media attention.
Churches call on Senate to block Stronger Futures
NATIONAL: Australia’s Catholic bishops have urged the Senate to block daft legislation to extend the Northern Territory intervention in Aboriginal communities.