National Aboriginal Alliance federal intervention database

Calling all Aboriginal people and supporters to converge on Canberra:
Stand up for Aboriginal rights on the first day of the new parliament.

Tuesday, February 12 2008
Meet Aboriginal Tent Embassy 11:30am
March to Parliament for 1pm rally

Turn back Howard and Brough's racist legacy!

- Reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act
- Demand immediate review of the NT intervention
- End welfare quarantines, compulsory land acquisition and 'mission manager' powers
- Implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs

Lets really try to join together in the fight against
child abuse. Yes there are problems for aboriginal people
addressing this shocking problem within our own communities but we need to act. What good is a broken
human being to the future of our cultures? We need strong kids to bring our cultures into the future. without strong kids
there will be no strong cultures for the future.

Federal indigenous affairs Minister Mal Brough, has instructed his office to write the most disgraceful, abusive letter to Aboriginal leaders an officer of the crown has ever written, Legal Director Michael Mansell said today.

(see attached PDF from the Minister's department)

A speech given by Little Children Are Sacred Report author, Pat Anderson, to the Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference in Alice Springs on 25 September 2007. It provides context around the federal intervention in the NT.

This story, by Ashleigh Wilson, provides response from the Aboriginal community of Kybrook Farm near Pine Creek.

This article by Ashleigh Wilson appeared in the Australian yesterday.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22683713-5013404,00.html

INDIGENOUS people continue to fall behind on a range of key health, crime and education statistics, with Aborigines accounting for just under half the number of deaths recorded in the Northern Territory in one year, despite making up just over 25per cent of the population.

Indigenous people also make up more than 90 per cent of people put in protective custody.

From diatribe to dialogue -
speech delivered by Patrick Dodson to the Dialogue Centre of Latrobe University.

Sunday, 28 October, 2007

AAP

Angry words and abuse greeted federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough when he visited an Aboriginal community in Darwin to announce plans to make it into a normal suburb.

Under a sweltering Top End sun, Mr Brough said Bagot community had been neglected by the Northern Territory government and deliberately ostracised, despite its location in the heart of the city.