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Last July, the Northern Territory let the alcohol ban expire for hundreds of Aboriginal communities, calling it racist.
Research has found Aboriginal children who lived through the 2007 NT Intervention saw little impact from alcohol restrictions, other than bringing shame to communities.
Laws reinstating Aboriginal community alcohol bans have passed Northern Territory parliament following a frenzied national debate, and months after they abruptly lapsed despite the protests of ...
The Northern Territory government’s spending on Indigenous affairs must be audited to establish where huge sums of ...
Natasha Fyles, who leads the Northern Territory’s Labor government, derided it as “a race-based policy that disempowers” Aboriginal people. The crime wave is now causing a rethink.
Australia is to ban alcohol and pornography in Aboriginal areas in the Northern Territory in a bid to curb child sex abuse. All Aboriginal children in the territory will be medically examined. The new ...
Coroner finds systemic racism within Northern Territory police and says it may have influenced officer’s actions during fatal ...
In Australia, alcohol banned once again in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory In response to rising crime, the authorities have temporarily reinstated alcohol consumption bans ...
Alcohol bans will be reinstated in all Aboriginal town camps and communities in the Northern Territory. The Territory’s parliament passed the Liquor Amendment Act just hours after it was introduced on ...
Both the federal and Northern Territory governments and a peak NT organisation have come to a six-year multi-million dollar agreement aimed at improving the lives of Indigenous Territorians.
The media frenzy about the “crime wave” in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), and the way the Northern Territory and federal governments are responding, are cause for serious concern. Everyone has the ...