Walk With Us – new book exposes Australian Government’s Northern Territory Internaention
Intervention’s measures are inhumane, degrading, Green Left, September 10, 2011 Nicole Watson, a research fellow at the University of Technology Sydney’s Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, gave the address below at the Sydney launch of Walk With Us: Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice at Gleebooks, Sydney, on September 11 “…..if you look at the measures, and the 500 pages of legislation that was subsequently rushed through the parliament, it has nothing to do with child protection.
At a community level, the intervention has enabled the Commonwealth to seize control of Aboriginal lands — not only the most valuable asset of many communities, but the lynchpin of identity and culture.
The imposition of government business managers has usurped community initiative and contributed to a sense of powerlessness. Research by credible bodies, most notably the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association, has proven the harmful psychological impacts of these measures…..
Walk With Us provides an unflinching gaze into life under the intervention…..
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