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Craig Hayes
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Australian Indigenous Intervention, An NT Perspective.
September 30, 2007 - 02:06 AM
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George C. Owens
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Re: Australian Indigenous Intervention, An NT Perspective.
September 30, 2007 - 05:08 PM
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Remote-Dude,
I just copied and pasted this from your other Thread,
I was recently asked to provide the Australian Democrats on a response to the Australian Governments' actions in the Northern Territory regarding the Sacred Children report which stated that the abuse of Aboriginal Children in the Northern Territory is an unaddressed issue.
There seems to be three main points of contention here. The first two are valid in my mind, the other is arguably valid if you belong to a strong beer and alcohol drinking culture like the one that exists in the NT.
1) If you are going to act on a report such as the one conducted here in the NT, then surely you would adopt more than 50% of its recommendations if you were serious about addressing the issues in the report. I am prepared to say that the Howard Government has done some things right, but on the list of things it has handled badly, Indigenous affairs is one. For them to ignore the 97 recommendations in the Sacred Children Report and do their own thing confuses most people up here and leaves me staggering with disbelief.
2) No one I've spoken to has been able to complete this sentence: "The Federal Government needs to acquire Indigenous land here in the Territory because...."??? The removal of the permit system could be a separate issue but seems to be spoken of in the same context: Why have we removed two key components to Aboriginal self determination without trying to work with in their customs and culture first.
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Re: Australian Indigenous Intervention, An NT Perspective.
September 30, 2007 - 05:09 PM
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3) There is ongoing news here in the Territory about how the Federal Governments Alcohol and Pornography Restrictions are unworkable, or easy to find loopholes in, or going to ruin some businesses, or not going to have any more impact on most communities that the current laws already enacted under NT Legislation or Aboriginal Law. The overall assessment of the Federal Governments new laws is that they are another layer of unworkable Bureaucracy. Certainly I have read nothing positive on a local level here about these new restrictions and I suspect strongly that this issue alone will cost Federal CLP sitting member David Tollner his seat here in Solomon and I rarely make predictions like that.
I have posted this because it is easy to hear about the NT, be shocked, and then dismiss it. Please comment if you aren't one of those that have dismissed us
bye,
george
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