Morrison’s Plan Unhinged
A Northern Territory environmental group has won a court battle over a Morrison government grant to develop the Beetaloo Basin onshore gas field. The Environment Centre NT argued in the federal court that the $21m grant for exploration wells was legally unreasonable on multiple grounds.
There has been nothing but silence after The Australian revealed the NT Government kept over $2 billion of its Indigenous aid budget.
The scathing report from The Australian came at a time when all eyes were on the NT after a shocking case of child sexual abuse hit Tennant Creek. The NT is facing a mountain of problems right now. From Indigenous health to housing, unemployment to education. Indigenous communities really need all the help they can get. The situation is nothing short of a national disgrace.
While many people have their fingers pointed directly at Aboriginal communities, no one seems to be questioning the $2 billion of Indigenous funding that was taken out of Indigenous aid budgets by the NT Govt. Can you honestly say that problems would be so bad in these communities if the $2 billion was invested like it was supposed to be?
Every government department I have visited in the Territory, its personnel are a sea of White privilege. Every private sector enterprise I have visited is a sea of White privilege. There is no one-third of the workforce comprised of Aboriginal Territorians. This was the case two and three decades ago. It is obvious that the work of yesteryear in touting affirmative actions, the goal of workforce parity, was a lie.Today, the Northern Territory remains to Australia what Mississipi, Alabama and North and South Carolina were to the United States decades ago.
Source: NT and Commonwealth governments remain racist disgraces — apartheid
Former human rights commissioner throws her support behind statement prepared with Indigenous elders that calls for the law to be repealed
Dylan Voller, who’s been at the centre of the Northern Territory Royal Commission investigating mistreatment of youth at Darwin’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, today appeared in the NT Supreme Court via video link from Alice Springs. Voller’s supervision conditions were changed to allow him to occasionally spend the night at his brother’s house in Alice Springs while transitioning out of BushMob. “I’ve been really looking forward and am re-integrating back into the community like a normal person.”
Source: ‘I’m happy proving everyone wrong’: Dylan Voller bail relaxed for good behaviour | NITV
Exclusive: Dylan Voller is being “made an example of”, claims an organisation that works with disadvantaged young people.
Source: Parole Board Rejected Offer To Rehabilitate Teen At Centre Of NT Royal Commission – BuzzFeed News
A key witness to the NT child protection royal commission is giving evidence today.
ABC 7.30’s Leigh Sales and film crew travel to the NT to witness Chief Minister Adam Giles hurtle down the slippery slope to oblivion at this Saturday’s election. Richard Koser was there.
Source: Leigh Sales interviews NT Chief Head Kicker Adam Giles on the eve of his demise
The NT detains young people at a rate three times higher than the other states and territories.
Shocking video showing a 17-year-old boy being strapped into a mechanical restraint chair in the Northern Territory in March 2015 is obtained by Four Corners.
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