The report of Rudd's review into the NT Intervention will come as no surprise to many. So why did Labor back the slap-dash policy in the first place?
editorial 14 Oct 2008 -By Marni Cordell
The report of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Review team, headed by West Australian Indigenous leader Peter Yu, has just been released and its findings come as no surprise to anyone who has taken even the most cursory interest in the Intervention's rollout.
The blanket measures applied to 45,550 Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory have caused anger, hurt, increased racism and confusion, the Report finds.
As well, it found that the Intervention's lack of consultation with the very people it was supposed to help has diminished its own effectiveness.
The Report recommends that compulsory income management be scrapped, that the number of police in communities be increased, that rent be paid to Aboriginal owners of land subject to five-year leases, that the Racial Discrimination Act be reinstated, and above all: that Aboriginal people be brought into the consultation process about the policy's redesign.
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