A Better Way for NT Aboriginal communities
If your government told you where and how you could spend your money, wouldn't you feel outraged?
If your government said it would only fix essential services to your property as long as you agreed to hand over control of your property for a fixed amount of time, wouldn't that sound ridiculous?
If someone came from outside your community and imposed upon you, your family and friends a system that you could plainly see would cause more problems than it solves, wouldn't you stand up and shout NO!
The truth is, this is how your Government treats Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory. In the NT this is the law. Aboriginal people have been standing up and shouting NO but their voices have been ignored.
Some of ANTaR's other campaigns:
Respect
ANTaR's Respect campaign calls on individuals to commit to a new relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.Read more...
Indigenous health
ANTaR has been campaigning for Indigenous health rights since 2004 and is one of the founding members of the Close The Gap coalition.Read more...
Treaty
ANTaR believes that constitutional change is essential to ensure that the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are fully protected.Read more...
Forming alliances the only solution
28 October 2009
Opinion piece by Janet Hunt, President of ANTaR. First published in the Canberra Times, 29 October 2009
One year ago the Federal Government received the final report of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Panel. It concluded “the intervention diminished its own effectiveness through its failure to engage constructively with the Aboriginal people it intended to help”.
"A Better Way" for NT Aboriginal communities
27 October 2009
ANTaR is launching its "A Better Way" campaign today. The campaign aims to highlight that there is a better way to work with Aboriginal people than the coercive and stigmatising approaches still continuing under the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) and related Aboriginal policies.
One year ago the Rudd Government's independent review recommended that governments must genuinely and respectfully engage with Aboriginal people to find solutions to child abuse and related community problems. Yet, punitive and discriminatory measures remain in place for the 73 prescribed Aboriginal communities.
This little ditty is at the heart of an innovative Aboriginal Men’s Centre.
The Goori Men’s Recovery Centre, in Cleveland, has been awarded the ANTaR Qld 3rd Annual Close the Gap Award for their well-structured and culturally appropriate approach to helping men recover from drug and alcohol addiction problems.
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