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Damning report on Aboriginal scheme – National – smh.com.au

Damning report on Aboriginal scheme
Sydney Morning Herald Stephanie Peatling and Joel Gibson
October 14, 2008

THE radical intervention into remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory has “fractured” the relationship between governments and indigenous people and led to an even greater sense of betrayal and misery among many people, an independent panel has found.

The board commissioned by the Federal Government to review the intervention after 12 months found it had not led to anyone being arrested for child sexual abuse – the grounds on which the previous government justified the intervention………………………….The board called for the intervention’s exemption from the Racial Discrimination Act to be removed and supported the reinstatement of the permit system for entry to lands…………………………………..

Pat Turner, of the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the Northern Territory, said she hoped the Government would take the report seriously and amend its approach.

She applauded its recommendations to compensate Aboriginal landowners on just terms for compulsory leases over their land and for its call for the intervention to be subject to the Racial Discrimination Act.

But Ms Turner, who has called the intervention a Trojan horse designed to seize Aboriginal land,

Damning report on Aboriginal scheme – National – smh.com.au

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October 14, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | indigenous issues