NT Intervention

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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”.

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.

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

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.

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.

Tag Archives: NT Intervention

Stronger Futures hearing a waste of time: Scullion

NT Aboriginal leaders reject Stronger Futures

NT intervention hearings hit the road

Stronger Futures still discriminatory: Nicholson

Girl suicide rates rose after intervention

Peak bodies call on government to move on from intervention

Stronger Futures referred to committee; closing date after Christmas

We’re not all boozers, NT elders say

Mal Brough lining up for Slipper’s seat

Stronger Futures is the same intervention: Amnesty

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