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 Jenny Macklin, John Tomlinson, Mal Brough, Marion Scrymgour, Mel James, National Indigenous Times, NT Stateline, Online Opinion, The ABC, the Dodson Report, Working Future, Yu Review
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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 [...]
September 26, 2008 – 5:41 pm
I gave up on hate as a waste of time many years ago and it is a very rare moment now that I can be bothered to even strongly dislike someone. Contempt and pity rise a little more easily but are still occasional pleasures. And I don’t like seeing small furry animals in pain and [...]
