August 31, 2009 – 4:31 pm
Macklin should resign as Minister – she has no results to show us, she doesn’t – or doesn’t know how to – listen or talk to Aboriginal people – she should go, and the sooner the better: Richard Downs, Alyawarra leader
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention
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Also tagged Alison Anderson, Alyawarra people, Ampilatwatja, Bess Price, Chair NT Indigenous Advisory Council, Dave Price, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Green left Weekly, Interventionwalkoff, Richard Downs, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Warren Mundine
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Mel James (ABC Stateline): Alison Anderson, this sounds very much like the policy that Mal Brough was proposing. It’s exactly the same isn’t it?
Alison Anderson, Indigenous Affairs Minister NT Government: Oh look, this has been a policy that’s been delivered and, um, developed by the Henderson Labor government. It’s got nothing to do with Mal Brough whatsoever.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth
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Also tagged John Tomlinson, Mal Brough, Marion Scrymgour, Mel James, National Indigenous Times, NT Intervention, NT Stateline, Online Opinion, The ABC, the Dodson Report, Working Future, Yu Review
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No-one in NT Chief Minister’s Henderson’s now-marginal, single-seat majority government has the intellectual or moral wit, rigour or vigour to think outside of the prevailing assimilationist paradigm that now runs in Australia’s management of indigenous affairs.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged Alison Anderson, Centre for Aboriginal Policy Research, indigenous hybrid economy, John Howard, Jon Altman, Lindsay Murdoch, Mal Brough, Mike Dillon, Paul Henderson, Territory Growth Towns, The Age, The Australian, The Fabian Society, Working Future - Remote Service Delivery
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November 12, 2008 – 1:59 pm
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has labelled the NT intervention safe house initiative a “massive stuff-up.”
15 months after Former Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough’s promise to provide safe houses at part of the NT intervention, not one of the 16 shipping-container based safe houses has opened its door for clients and no staff have been appointed [...]
October 29, 2008 – 1:38 pm
As I walked up the road yesterday morning to get some milk, I spotted Peggy Napaljarri Brown, Jenny Macklin’s best new friend and Valerie Napaljarri Martin sitting in the shade of a tree outside the ramshackle office of the Yuendumu Mining Company. Next to her sat Harry Jakamarra Nelson.
They all have better things to be [...]
October 28, 2008 – 3:54 pm
“I’ve found a friend!” Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin tells Crikey as she walks arm-in-arm across the dusty main street of Yuendumu with Peggy Nampijinpa Brown.
Jenny and Nampijinpa have just been to visit the several hundred people who have come down from their sorry business at West Camp where they are mourning the recent [...]
