Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation Statement: please click here

Elders Statement of 29 June 2017: please click here  or here

Mparntwe-Alice Springs Stand Up 2017 statement: please click here or please click here

Eminent Australians Statement of 28 August 2017: please click here

Melbourne launch of the Eminent Australians Statement on 28 August 2017: please click here or  for the flyer here

"10 years since the Federal Government Intervention and everyone needs to remember that we experience the failings of that invasion every day." Yingiya Mark Guyula MLA, Independent member of Nhulunbuy and Elder and spokesperson of the Yolŋu Nations Assembly. From his recent Open Letter to the Northern Territory Government: Genuine outcomes for Yolngu communities, June 1st 2017 here

 

 

 

Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 6pm

Forum and Discussion
Redfern Community Centre
29-53 Hugo St, Redfern, Sydney

Facilitator: Jeff McMullen, Journalist and Filmmaker

Speakers: Amelia Pangarte Kunoth-Monks, Stephen Hodder-Watt Bunbadgee, Josie Crawshaw and Nancy McDinny from the NT, Nicole Watson

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/459055084443182/
(please like and share)

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/WgarNews/status/865528593924866049 and https://twitter.com/WgarNews/status/865851216957329410




Saturday, 24 June 2017 - 1.30pm

Northern Territory Intervention - 10 years of racist shame

Sydney Rally and March

Meet at Archibald Fountain, North end of Hyde Park
and march to Redfern Park


Speakers from the Northern Territory

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/492712027519174/ (please like and share)




For the poster (A3): please click here

For the colour leaflet (A5): please click here

For the leaflet double-sided for printing: please click here

For the leaflet: please click here

 

STICS T-Shirts for sale: please click here



The sudden and brutal upheaval of Aboriginal people’s lives in the Northern Territory in June 2007 by the Howard Government called the “Intervention” & its extension in 2012 by the Gillard Government for 10 years the so-called “Stronger Futures” has caused widespread havoc and distress.

The statistics tell us that:

• Child removals have increased; children are not safer.
• Housing is still overcrowded and in an appalling state
• Indigenous incarceration rates are increasing rapidly
• Suicide and self-harm incidents have increased
• The gap has not closed
• Violence is a continuous threat
• Poverty, trauma and despair is ongoing
• 99-year leases are just a Land grab

This racist, paternalistic policy denies First Nations peoples their Human Rights and is maintained by both major parties. It must be repealed and First Nations peoples be given the right to self-determination and build their own future.

Let’s use our Collective voice to finally help


REPEAL THE INTERVENTION!

 

Satellite Events:



Monday, 19 June 2017 – 5pm for 5.30pm start

THE INTERVENTION TEN YEARS ON:
Northern Territory Women Speak

Room 005, Level 3, Dr Chau Chak Wing Building (Building 8), 14-28 Ultimo Road, Ultimo

RSVP: Registration essential, click here.

The Northern Territory Intervention, launched by John Howard in June 2007, was the biggest attack on Aboriginal rights in many generations. The Australian Army was sent into Aboriginal communities and the Racial Discrimination Act was suspended to push through a host of draconian measures to allow the Commonwealth to take control of Aboriginal people and their lands.

A decade later, the Intervention has disappeared from public debate, but Aboriginal communities continue to deal with severe breaches of their human rights. Many of the measures remain in place, extended until at least 2022 under ‘Stronger Futures’ legislation. Conditions in communities have deteriorated, with many social indicators such as rates of incarceration, child removal, attempted suicide and school attendance going backwards. Intervention policies such as the quarantining of welfare payments and withdrawal of resources from remote Aboriginal communities have spread out across Australia.

This forum offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from Aboriginal women from the Northern Territory about their experiences of life under the Intervention, their struggles against injustice and their vision for a positive future.

The panel will be hosted by Prof. Larissa Behrendt, Chair of Indigenous Research at UTS and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS.

Speakers include:
Pat Turner - An Arrente woman with many years experience campaigning for Aboriginal rights and working as a senior public servant, including as Deputy CEO of Centrelink and CEO of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Pat is currently the CEO of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Heath Organisation.

Nancy McDinny - A Garrwa and Yanyuwa woman living on her homelands near the Borroloola community in the Gulf country. Nancy is an artist, linguist, Elder and community leader who has campaigned strongly against mining developments on her lands.

Kylie Sambo - A Warlmanpa and Warumungu woman living in Tennant Creek, Kylie was 14 years old when the intervention was launched and has consistently spoken out about the negative impacts on Aboriginal youth. Kylie is a hip hop artist and played a leading role in the fight to protect her traditional lands at Muckaty from a nuclear waste dump.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1672735183035409/ (please like and share)




Thursday, 22 June 2017 – 6pm for 6.30pm start

“Politics In The Pub”

Gaelic Club, 1/64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills NSW

Speakers: Stephen Hodder-Watt Bunbadgee, Lardiland Eva Cox

For more info: please click here

 

 

Events in other cities:



Alice Springs


24-26 June 2017
10 years ago on June 21 2007 the NTER (Northern Territory Emergency Response, aka the Intervention) was announced...
There will be a convergence from June 24 -26 2017 in Alice Springs. Barbara Shaw is calling out to people to come together to talk about it all, and work together to come up with ways to overcome these problems. We want to talk about all the issues, such as youth (in)justice and children being taken from their families. ...

You can see Barb’s call out at https://youtu.be/0mDHM5WapEA

For the poster: please click here

For the workshops: please click here

Mparntwe-Alice Springs Stand Up 2017 statement: please click here

For more info about the Intervention, its measures and effects:
https://rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com/10-years-of-the-intervention/




Melbourne


Wednesday 21 June 2017 - 6pm - 7.30pm

Thursday, 29th June 2017 - 2.45pm for 3pm – 5.45pm

A Conversation with NT Aboriginal Elders and Community Leaders
10 YEARS OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY INTERVENTION
& WORKING TOWARDS TREATIES

RMIT Building 80, 4th level, Room 11, 445 Swanston St, Melbourne - Directions here or Tram stop (route 64, stop 7)

Introduction: Jon Altman, research professor in anthropology at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University

Speakers: Josie Crawshaw, Elaine Peckham, Uncle Harry Jakamarra Nelson, Frank Baarda

For the poster: please click here

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1416115268445355/ (please like and share) and http://melbournecatholic.org.au/About-Us/forum-to-mark-10-years-of-nt-intervention

Message from Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM, senior Elder and Dhurili political Clan Leader of the Yolngu people of North-East Arnhem Land

In 2007 under the Howard Government Aboriginal peoples’ lives in the Northern Territory were suddenly and brutally traumatized. Labeled the ‘Northern Territory Emergency Response’ or ‘NT Intervention’ the policy was later expanded in 2012 by the Gillard Government for ten years and rebranded as ‘Stronger Futures’. These imposed Government policies have caused widespread havoc and disempowerment amongst First Peoples’ communities in the NT, breached human rights and United Nations guidelines, and were not consented to.

The policies are failing. Aboriginal land rights have been weakened and the Gaps are widening.

The people have long called for this LEGISLATION TO BE SCRAPPED.
The sovereignty of the clans and First Nations Peoples must be recognised and respected.
There has been a resounding call for substantive reform and PATHWAY TO TREATY/IES.

Elders Statement of 29 June 2017: please click here

Photos from the event:

(distant Jon Altman talking): please click here (Aboriginal flag and audience)

Aunty Elaine Peckham talking: please click here

Lt- Rt: : Uncle Harry Jakamarra Nelson, Vincent Forrester, Frank Baarda, Aunty Elaine Peckham, Alexis Wright (standing), Jon Altman, Jeff McMullen (standing): please click here
 
Jeff McMullen (standing); Uncle Harry Jakamarra Nelson; Vincent Forrester... Aunty Elaine Kngwarreye Peckham: please click here

New Book: Published 1 May 2017



'And there'll be NO dancing'

Perspectives on Policies Impacting

Indigenous Australia since 2007


Editor(s):
Elisabeth Baehr, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
Contributors:
Leon Terrill, Dorothee Klein, Barry Judd, Victoria Herche, Victoria Grieves, Lindsay Frost, Michelle Dunne Breen, More...


Book description:
... Fourteen essays by scholars from Australia and Germany examine (historical) contexts and discourses of the Intervention and subsequent policies impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007 from the perspective of diverse academic disciplines including history, sociology, law, Indigenous studies, art history, literature, education and media studies. They invite readers to engage in the debate about human rights, about Indigenous self-determination, and about the preservation of Indigenous culture.

For an extract: please click here

For further info:
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/and-therell-be-no-dancing

 

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