The Intervention

Health and Houses

Matjjin-nehen - April 13, 2008 - 4:45pm

Over the past 10 months or so, I’ve made it clear that housing, in my opinion, is one of the most important factors of indigenous affairs right now. The state of the vast majority of dwellings in most aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and probably elsewhere is quite honestly despicable.
Despite this raw fact, and [...]

Eleven years in the making

Matjjin-nehen - February 7, 2008 - 11:24am

In less than a week, the federal Australian Government will catch up to the eight states and territories, and only a decade behind them.
The Bringing Them Home report was tabled in Parliament on May 26, 1997. Within two days, Western Australia and South Australia, both Coalition-governed states at the time, had issued unreserved apologies¹. By [...]

Museum-pieces

Matjjin-nehen - March 15, 2008 - 3:46pm

Last weekend, a group of 16 Warlpiri women, including one three-month-old infant, travelled the 300 kilometres from Yuendumu to Alice Springs, to receive training in swimming skills and first aid, as they are about to become Yuendumu’s first life guards, ready for when the community’s new pool arrives in July.

However, the manager of the establishment [...]