Nt Intervention: Aboriginal Policy Australia
“In the Name of the Child”: An analysis and critique of The Northern Territory National Emergency Response (NTER)
“…the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians.
It begins, I think, with the act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion”.
Labor Prime Minister, (1991-1996), Paul Keating, Redfern Address, Sydney, 1992
“Mr Speaker, I move that this House… expresses its deep and sincere regret that indigenous Australians suffered injustices under the practices of past generations and for the hurt and trauma that many indigenous people continue to feel as a consequence of those practices… and believes that we, having achieved so much as a nation, can now move forward together for the benefit of all Australians”.
Liberal Prime Minister (1996-2007), John Howard, puts the Motion of Regret to Parliament,Thursday, 26 August, 1999
“We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians… And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry”.
Labor Prime Minister (2007 – present), Kevin Rudd, National Apology address, Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Introduction:
This paper looks at the social policies impacted on Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory with the passing of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007, (NTER) and other Acts, along with requisite legislative amendments[i], to facilitate these policies. The object of the NTER Act is to improve the well‑being of certain [Aboriginal] communities in the Northern Territory (NTER, 2007 – Section 5)[ii] . It is argued
“…the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians.
It begins, I think, with the act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion”.
Labor Prime Minister, (1991-1996), Paul Keating, Redfern Address, Sydney, 1992
“Mr Speaker, I move that this House… expresses its deep and sincere regret that indigenous Australians suffered injustices under the practices of past generations and for the hurt and trauma that many indigenous people continue to feel as a consequence of those practices… and believes that we, having achieved so much as a nation, can now move forward together for the benefit of all Australians”.
Liberal Prime Minister (1996-2007), John Howard, puts the Motion of Regret to Parliament,Thursday, 26 August, 1999
“We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians… And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry”.
Labor Prime Minister (2007 – present), Kevin Rudd, National Apology address, Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Introduction:
This paper looks at the social policies impacted on Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory with the passing of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007, (NTER) and other Acts, along with requisite legislative amendments[i], to facilitate these policies. The object of the NTER Act is to improve the well‑being of certain [Aboriginal] communities in the Northern Territory (NTER, 2007 – Section 5)[ii] . It is argued
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