First published in ABC News

An anti-intervention campaigner, Barbara Shaw, says many Aboriginal people still do not understand the full extent of the Northern Territory Emergency Response and only associate it with welfare quarantining.

Aboriginal community leaders from across the Territory are meeting in Darwin today to mark this weekend's second anniversary of the intervention.

The Alice Springs town camp resident says the the Prescribed Areas People Alliance will this afternoon release a statement at the Territory's Parliament House calling for genuine consultation with Aboriginal people.

She says the intervention has not improved housing or health in communities and has caused confusion due to a lack of consultation.

"Nobody knows what the intervention is," she said. "Everybody thinks it's just income management."

"They don't know about the five year lease take over. They don't know the compulsorily land acquisition the five year leases, the extra policing. They don't know anything about the legislation because nobody went out and consulted them with it."

The Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin, says it is normal for people to have different views on the intervention.

She says she is committed to holding consultations in each of the Territory's 73 prescribed communities.

"It's important that we have a respectful relationship, that we are able to talk with each other and have a better understanding of what people in communities think and that they also understand why the Government is implementing particular changes."