[Commpsych] Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory

[Nathan Harris]

Hi

I wanted to alert everyone to a petition that is being put forward to  
the senate by a community group asking that the Racial Discrimination  
Act be reinstated in the Northern Territory.

The petition, and more information, can be found at: http:// 
www.gopetition.com.au/online/20268.html

I would encourage people to forward this petition onto their networks.

cheers,

Nathan

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Nathan Harris
Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet)
Australian National University

HC Coombs Extension
Australian National University
Australian Capital Territory, 0200
Ph: +61 (0)2 61258442


> From: Heather Gridley <Heather.Gridley at vu.edu.au>
> Date: 5 November 2007 12:08:17 PM
> To: commpsych at lists.curtin.edu.au
> Subject: [Commpsych] FW: [womenforwik] "TRACKING THE INTERVENTION"  
> - 4	CORNERS MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER
>
> "TRACKING THE INTERVENTION" – 4 CORNERS MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER
>
> Next on Four Corners: How is the national intervention changing the  
> lives of indigenous people in the Northern Territory? Are children  
> safer? A tale of two far-flung communities…
>
>
> After decades of hollow promises, it was time to cut the talk. In  
> Canberra’s eyes the rolling scandal of child sexual abuse in  
> indigenous communities demanded action, swift and certain.
>
> So the Federal Government grabbed control of 73 Territory bush  
> communities, dispatching soldiers and police to "stabilise"  
> townships and squads of doctors and nurses to check the kids. It  
> declared it would ban grog and porn, quarantine welfare payments  
> and scrap the visitor permit system.
>
> Four months on from the dramatic announcement, what impact is the  
> intervention having on the thousands of people it is supposed to  
> help? Among the majority who are neither diehard opponents nor  
> committed barrackers for the intervention, is the early confusion  
> and fear giving way to wary optimism - or to a familiar weary  
> cynicism?
>
> Four Corners has been on the ground in the Territory to prepare the  
> most comprehensive television report so far assessing the  
> intervention. Reporter Matthew Carney journeys to two vastly  
> different communities…
>
> At tropical Maningrida, on Arnhem Land’s coast, bedevilled with  
> problems but blessed with energetic leaders and potentially  
> abundant resources, there is scepticism from the outset. People are  
> fearful about ceding control over land and assets. When the ex- 
> policeman appointed by the Government to bring change to Maningrida  
> flies in to introduce himself, he quickly encounters resistance.
>
> The locals have independently taken their own initiative to deal  
> with sexual abuse. They wonder about the effectiveness of the child  
> health checks and worry about what will happen when welfare  
> payments are overhauled.
>
> At Finke, 2000 kilometres to the south, on the edge of the Simpson  
> Desert, most residents embraced the intervention as an opportunity  
> to garner real jobs, funds and facilities.  Here the intervention  
> is much further advanced than at Maningrida. But, as a simple  
> excursion to the town store soon makes clear, the process is still  
> bound bizarrely in red tape. And workers now without jobs are  
> wondering where their money went…
>
> Join Matthew Carney "Tracking the Intervention" – on Four Corners,  
> 8.30 pm, Monday 5 November on ABC TV.
>
> This program will be repeated about 11.35 pm Tuesday 6 November;  
> also on ABC2 at 9.30 pm Wednesday and 8 am Thursday.
>
> Four Corners
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/
>
> --
> Claire Smith, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, GPO  
> Box 2100, Adelaide. SA 5001. Australia
>
>
>
> President, World Archaeological Congress
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>
>
> Women for Wik - Monitoring the Federal Action in the Northern  
> Territory
>
> http://www.womenforwik.org
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>
>
> Sixth WAC Congress, WAC-6, University College Dublin, Ireland, 29th  
> June-4 July 2008
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