It took two years until Centrelink allowed the store in Mapuru about kms east of Darwin to accept the BasicsCard. The Intervention legislation of , that continued as Stronger Futures laws from , are a complex set of oppressive and racist laws The level of spin by our government to shine the [welfare] card in the best possible light is something we should all be talking about.
NT Intervention creep is a term used to describe Aboriginal people who flee from their smaller communities, which are covered by the intervention, into the larger cities such as Darwin or Alice Springs, driving up the number of homeless people.
On any given night up to people slept rough in Darwin in [44]. Intervention creep comes at a price—Darwin City Council is able to confiscate and destroy their belongings and fine them. In Alice Springs Aboriginal locals blame people escaping the intervention for a significant increase of lawlessness, drunkenness and violence, and putting more stress on the already overcrowded town camps.
This monster — intervention — needs to be destroyed and buried. You cannot drive change into a community and unload it off the back of a truck.
That is the lesson of the Intervention. Dr Ian Norton, an emergency response expert and former head of WHO's emergency medical team initiative, made the following comments about lockdown communication during the COVID pandemic: [46]. There is a growing number of resources on the Northern Territory intervention developing in Australia.
The website of Concerned Australians has many great resources about the NT intervention. This article, written by Chris Graham of The Tracker magazine, is an extremely important historical document that exposes false reporting causing Aboriginal misery: A ministerial official posed as a community doctor and lied about paedophile rings and told all sorts of other lies to an ABC report, which helped trigger the intervention.
Many Aboriginal people believed this story. Kate Finlayson produced a story about the NT intervention from the point of view of an Aboriginal artist, Kevin Wirri. Kevin lives with his family in one of the town camps that dot the dusty bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs. Kate returns after a long time to find her friend's young son, Elton Wirri, has become a famous Aboriginal artist.
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Please note that this website might show images and names of First Peoples who have passed. Close this Wishing you knew more about Aboriginal culture? Search no more. Get key foundational knowledge about Aboriginal culture in a fun and engaging way. Stop feeling bad about not knowing. Make it fun to know better. Definition: White cockies In Aboriginal communities people coming in and talking to them and then going again while nothing happens are known as 'white cockies'.
Story: "You are forcing us to abandon our culture"— Aboriginal elder "I write because the so-called intervention in the Northern Territory is not working and there is a desperate need for another review. They only think they do.
Fact It took two years until Centrelink allowed the store in Mapuru about kms east of Darwin to accept the BasicsCard. Would you agree to the above comment if it was made to you in the context of the intervention? The police presence was increased in prescribed communities. And customary law was no longer allowed to be considered in bail applications and sentencing in criminal court cases.
The trigger for the Intervention was the release of the Little Children are Sacred report. The NT government commissioned the report in response to public allegations of rampant child sexual abuse and violence in Aboriginal communities.
As in many earlier reports, the authors pointed to a range of complex social issues — including poverty, overcrowded housing, lack of educational and employment opportunities, and alcohol and substance abuse.
They also emphasised the need for community-driven solutions. The report gave the government political cover to introduce coercive and unpopular measures it had developed over the previous decade but not implemented. These included the abolition of the permit system, township leases, and welfare quarantining.
In political terms, the Howard government faced little opposition to the Intervention. Cabinet was not consulted, and the government was able to take advantage of its Senate majority to push through the legislation.
With a federal election around the corner, Labor leader Kevin Rudd saw no electoral advantage in criticising the Intervention, framed as it was in terms of deviance, dysfunction and abuse of vulnerable children. Income Tax Assessment Act A raft of reforms and regulations were introduced by this package of legislation, including: Restricting the sale, consumption and purchase of alcohol in prescribed areas.
This included the prohibition of alcohol in certain areas prescribed by the legislation, making collection of information compulsory for purchases over a certain amount and the introduction of new penalty provisions.
Compulsorily acquiring townships held under title provisions of the Native Title Act with the introduction of five year leases in order to give the government unconditional access.
Sixty-five Aboriginal communities were compulsorily acquired. Linking income support payments to school attendance for all people living on Aboriginal land, and providing mandatory meals for children at school at parents' cost. Introducing compulsory health checks for all Aboriginal children. Introducing pornography filters on publicly funded computers, and bans on pornography in designated areas.
Abolishing the permit system under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act for common areas, road corridors and airstrips for prescribed communities,. Increasing policing levels in prescribed communities. Secondments were requested from other jurisdictions to supplement NT resources. Marshalling local workforces through the work-for-the-dole program to clean-up and repair communities.
Reforming living arrangements in prescribed communities through introducing market based rents and normal tenancy arrangements. Commonwealth funding for the provision of community services. Removing customary law and cultural practice considerations from bail applications and sentencing in criminal trials. Changes under successive governments After an initial focus on preventing child sexual abuse, successive federal governments re-designed and re-framed the Intervention.
Article 3 of the Declaration states that: 'Indigenous peoples have the right of self-determination. The tackling alcohol abuse measure : the purpose of this measure was 'to enable special measures to be taken to reduce alcohol-related harm to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. This site uses cookies to personalise your experience. If you continue using the site, you indicate that you are happy to receive cookies from this website.
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