The NT Intervention, two years on. Pat Anderson

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June 2009 marks the second anniversary of the ‘National emergency response to protect Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory’, announced by the former Federal Government in 2007.

Pat Anderson, the co-author of the Little Children are Sacred report into abuse of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory, reflects on the Inquiry that led to the report; and the intervention that used it as a justification, but failed to implement its recommendations. She explores the differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal perceptions of the issue, and argues that effective action to protect and nurture Aboriginal children is undermined when Governments put their own agendas and priorities ahead of the evidence and the lived realities of Aboriginal life.

Social Justice Intiative, University of Melbourne, June 2009

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