[Media Release] Data shows intervention is a disaster: national rallies planned

Media release – 5/6/08 for immediate release
Extensive surveys conducted by activist groups in Darwin and Alice Springs demonstrate that the federal government’s intervention in the Northern Territory is compounding hardship in Aboriginal communities.
In a submission made to the Federal Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities last week, Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition [...]

[NSW] Show solidarity with Aboriginal activists in the Territory: Protest at Redfern Centrelink this Tuesday May 13

Protest at Redfern Centrelink
End the racist NT intervention–no welfare quarantines
National Day of Action against NT intervention
No Racist Welfare Quarantines!
Reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act!
Rally Tuesday May 13
12:30 Redfern Centrelink 140 Redfern st
Speakers recently returned from solidarity work in NT communities
The NT intervention is sinking into deeper crisis. Thousands of people from remote communities are being forced [...]

[WA] Midland Centrelink Protest Demands an End to Quarantining

Annolies Truman, Perth
21 adults and 10 children gathered outside Midland Centrelink on April 14 to demand the end of welfare quarantining in the Northern Territory and to keep the quarantine laws out of Western Australia.
Organised by the WA Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC), the protest demanded the repeal of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act [...]

Media Release: NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AT CENTRELINK TARGETS WELFARE QUARANTINING

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION – END DISCRIMINATORY WELFARE QUARANTINING: Monday 14th April
A coalition of Aboriginal Rights groups around the country will protest on Monday at Centrelink offices to highlight the ongoing discrimination of welfare quarantining under the NT ‘Emergency Intervention’, and expose the detrimental impacts of the quarantine roll out.
In February, the Canberra Convergence [...]

HREOC Social Justice Report gives clear direction to the Labor Govt

Media release 31/3/08
The Aboriginal Rights Coalition welcomed today’s release of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Social Justice Report into the Northern Territory Intervention into Aboriginal communities. Commissioner Tom Calma’s Report provides an independent analysis, critically assessing the race-based welfare quarantining and the contravening of the Racial Discrimination Act which he claims has [...]

Media release: 188 taken into custody in Alice – raids linked to intervention

Media release 7/4/08 – For immediate release
ABC news is reporting that 188 people were taken into custody in Alice Springs in a “special operation” targeting alcohol consumption and loitering on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of April. Police have been given increased powers under the NT intervention.
Police have said arrests focussed on youth who, “might [...]

Media release: Intervention Earthquake Shakes Top End

Media release 7/4/08 – For immediate release
Spokespersons from the Bagot Town Camp in Darwin say they are now feeling the effects of the Northern Territory Intervention:

The population of Bagot has risen from an average of around 500 to 1200.
Of the 57 houses at Bagot 3 are earmarked for demolition. In the meantime all houses are [...]