Social Policy Connections Statement of Support for the Yolnu Nations Assembly regarding the Stronger Futures Legislation. Social Policy Connections (SPC) is an independent, ecumenical, non-profit organisation, motivated and informed by Christian social thinking. Our aim is to expand awareness in Australia of social justice issues, as well as to influence public policy-nationally and globally-for the [...]
The Intervention is set to continue for another 10 years in the Northern Territory under the Stronger Futures legislation passed in the House of Representatives 27 February 2012. This brief history and impassioned plea to be listened-to should be watched by all Australians concerned with social justice.To view the campaign video, click here.
The Intervention in the NT is set to continue and to be expanded. The Minister says that this is what Aboriginal people asked for during the recent consultations. Read the “NT Consultations Report 2011: By Quotations” which is based on 10 consultations from different parts of the NT. Read what people really said. Click here [...]
Photo courtesy public16, flickr cc Cooperation not intervention: a call for a new direction in the Northern Territory Aboriginal peak bodies, community welfare, and public health groups from around the country are calling for a new direction in policies affecting Aboriginal Australians, based on cooperation rather than on ‘intervention’. ACOSS CEO, Dr Cassandra Goldie, says [...]
This paper raises a number of questions about the interpretation of consultations with Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory concerning the link between cuts to welfare payments and school non-attendance. The Federal Government’s recent report, Stronger Futures Report on Consultations, is based on the the belief that Aboriginal people support the proposal to remove welfare [...]
Melbourne 4 November, 2011 United First People’s Law men and women who are born leaders representing people of Prescribed Areas in the Northern Territory make this statement. Once again, they have gathered to openly discuss the future of our generation who have been subjugated by the lies and innuendo of the Federal Government, set out [...]
The Wadeye Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory has been transformed. 100 or so new homes have been built, and a large number refurbished. The community wanted and needed new houses, “more houses” being one of the requests to Government officials as they worked out what should be done after the first stages of the [...]
United Nations Hears that Australia Fails its Children in the Northern Territory Two reports were tabled at the United Nation’s Pre-Sessional Meeting on the Rights of the Child in Geneva. These reports looked closely at whether Australia’s commitments through the Convention on the Rights of the Child are being complied with. The first report, Listen [...]
Walk With Us – Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice, published in August 2011, is the long awaited sequel to the highly regarded and recommended This Is What We Said – Australian Aboriginal people give their views on the Northern Territory Intervention of February 2010. [...]
A follow up to “This Is What We Said”. In 2011 NT Aboriginal Elders and others give their views on the Intervention during its fourth year. For more information and a purchase order form go to www.concernedaustralians.com.au
