Australian Government "Intervention" Deepens in Aborignal Communities
Submitted on July 21, 2011
By Susan Allan - 21 July 2011
Launched in 2007 by the [right-wing] Howard government, fully backed by the Labor Party, the [Northern Territory Emergency Response Intervention] has become a testing ground for a continuous assault on welfare recipients, indigenous and non-indigenous alike. Labor’s next phase seeks to go further in closing “unviable” remote communities, opening up Aboriginal land for exploitation and creating a “work-ready” cheap labour force.
