Tag: Intervention

A Smear on the Nation, by Joe Morrison

The stain of the Intervention on Indigenous–non-Indigenous relations.

NTER Took the Children Away, by Thalia Anthony

The Intervention’s role in state-based child abuse.

Aftermath, by Melinda Hinkson

In the aftermath of the Intervention there has been a profound shift in the terms of national attention to Indigenous affairs.

The Real Cost of Closing Remote Communities, by Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird

Doing the sums on the contribution made by traditional Aboriginal economies

Iraq and Our Democracy by Alison Caddick

If the non-response to the marches against the Iraq war in 2003 confirmed a disabling political cynicism in many people, today we witness the political fruits of two decades of aggression in the Middle East and its fallout.

Tearing Syria Apart by Jeremy Salt

A war is being waged in and on Syria. Protecting the people from the dictator is no more than the usual pretext for attacks on Middle Eastern countries.

Do No Harm

Arguing for humanitarian intervention By Jasmine-Kim Westendorf

Driving In The NT

A new report shows how Intervention measures are criminalising Indigenous drivers By Maggie Knight

Shifting Fortunes: Mount Nancy

21 Jun 2012

On the ground in Mount Nancy Town Camp By Barbara Shaw

Hope-Less Futures?

21 Jun 2012

Women and children feel much safer now we are told. It is only when we go to the ground and recall that any relations between Aboriginal people and police in the present are built upon a deeply fraught history that the prospect of increased policing takes on a different inflection. By Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson

Developing the North

Alison Caddick

The intervention in context

Peter Billings (ed.), Indigenous Australians and the Commonwealth Intervention, special issue of Law in Context (Federation Press, Sydney, 2011)