Podcasts about northern territory intervention

Ben Abbatangelo is a proud Gunaikurnai and Wotjobaluk man and a social commentator. He's the former deputy CEO of global non-profit AIME, has appeared regularly on The Project and the ABC and has written for The Guardian and The Saturday Paper. Based on some of his recent work, I've sensed that Ben's been going through something of a political shift of late, towards somewhere a bit more radical, and I was keen to talk him about it. In this conversation we discuss what that shift has involved, the naivety he's left behind and what it means for his politics now. Ben also tells me about the legacy of the Northern Territory Intervention, explains the situation in Alice Springs and lays out the questions he's asking about the upcoming Voice to Parliament referendum and his sympathy for a progressive No vote. Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I'm currently touring my new stand up show IT IS I all over the country: SYDNEY (this week!) | CAIRNS | TOOWOOMBA | BRISBANE To get discounted tickets to Sydney, use the promo code PODCAST For discounted tickets to my shows in Brisbane, click here Later in the year I'll be coming back to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!  Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out now @BenAbbatangelo Ben's piece on The Project about First Nations people's response to the Queen's death BEN'S ARTICLES: Reconciliation action plans let settlers take up more space, not relinquish it Inside the Northern Territory Intervention How to solve the real problems in Alice Springs Cause of the Week: The Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (martuwarra.org)

In 2007, the Federal Government launched the Northern Territory Emergency Response, also known as the Intervention. It included restrictions on alcohol, changes to welfare payments, acquisitions of parcels of lands, education, employment and health initiatives, restrictions on pornography and other measures.  When Mary Keaney saw the confronting images on the news, she uprooted her life to travel there and work for the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flies into Alice Springs amid calls for action on alcohol-fuelled crime crisis. What is the Northern Territory Intervention? Indigenous elders welcome Alice Springs alcohol curbs but plead for more help. Advocates say PM's Alice Springs alcohol response ignores calls for needs-based domestic violence funding. Meta to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts. Linda Reynolds launches defamation action against Brittany Higgins's partner David Sharaz. Missing radioactive capsule: WA officials admit it was weeks before anyone realised it was lost. The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things. The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone. Twitter: @JorgeTsipos @TomDHeath @UnnaturalShow Instagram: @JorgeTsipos @Tom.Heath @UnnaturalShow

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// 7:15am - Barbara Shaw (IRAG) - Karrinjarla Muwajarri Mparntwe Rally//Arrernte activist Barbara Shaw from the Intervention Rollback Action Group or IRAG spoke at a rally on Saturday the 18th of June in Mparntwe Alice Springs calling for Karrinjarla Muwajarri, no guns in community. The Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign, organised by members of the Yuendumu community, demands a ceasefire and the restoration of self-determination to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In this speech, Barbara Shaw connects the 15th anniversary of the Northern Territory Intervention with state violence in Aboriginal communities. Our thanks to the Punk Tree Hour crew on 8CCC Community Radio Alice Springs and Tennant Creek for sharing this recording with us! You can find out how to support the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign at karrinjarlamuwajarri.org, and more information about IRAG is available via their Facebook page - Intervention Rollback Action Group.// 7:30am - Music and Promotion//Event promotion: Emerging Writers Festival and Schizy Inc: Gnarly Writers, showing tonight at EWF Thursday 23rd of June from 7:30-8:30PM at Loop Project Space & Bar// Gnarly Writers celebrates storytellers who've been in the public mental health system for decades. These artists will bring you insights into the system and into healing, which might just come in handy to anyone starting out on a mental health lived experience apprenticeship or seeking validation for a lifetime of service. This event emphasizes that writing one's own story can be more than a chance to impart words of wisdom: it's also an act of freedom from a lifetime of being recorded. Find out more here // Radiothon promotion: Thursday Breakfast is raising money for 3CR's 2022 Radiothon!//Donate over the phone: CALL 03 9419 8377 OR SMS 0488 809 855//Donate online at 3cr.org.au/donate, or via our CrowdRaiser at givenow.com.au/cr/breakfast.//Don't forget to nominate Thursday Breakfast when you make your donation!// 7:45am - Zianna Fuad - Blockade Australia//Then we are joined by Zianna Fuad, a member of the climate activist group Blockade Australia. To speak on the heavily armed police raid at a NSW property on Sunday the 19th of June. The raid was triggered after activists spotted camouflaged, unmarked police officers filming them. Followed by dozens of police storming the site and detaining protesters. 7 protesters were charged on Sunday with a range of offences, 5 of them have been slammed with extremely punitive conditions such as being denied bail and maximum sentences of 10 years. Join their event on Monday 27th of June in Sydney DAY ONE here// 8:00am - Anna Weekes//We also speak to Anna Weekes from Frack Free Arts NT about the continued sponsorship of arts programming from fossil fuel giants such as Santos who is a sponsor of the upcoming Darwin Festival. Anna is a community cultural artist who has worked within Australia and internationally on community directed arts projects for social justice. Anna has a passion for the creation of personal and group expression through the arts with a focus on art as a passage for social commentary to provoke thought and change. Anna has also received the Kirk Robson Community Cultural Arts Development award for her work over the past 10 years in the field. Sign the open letter to end funding by Santos here// 8:15am - Mammad Aidani//Finally, we are joined by Mammad Aidani, who is a human rights advocate, poet, playwright, theatre director and psychosocial resarcher. He speaks with us today about the play 'I said this to the bird', which is currently showing at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies with upcoming performances from the 24th to 26th of June.Ticket details are available here.//Mammad's research investigates the violence, torture, trauma and suffering experienced by Iranian and Middle Eastern immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers who have resettled in Australia and the West. He is currently the vice president of PEN International Melbourne. He teaches Hermeneutics and Phenomenological philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and his writings have been banned in Iran. You can read an essay by Mammad on exile, '300 words for truth,' here in Overland.// Songs//R U My Love - ParvynNilotic - Elsy WameyoKush (Amadou Suso Replay) - SO.Crates//

First Nations people have rallied across the country in a national Day of Action, demanding police stop carrying guns in remote communities. The protest also marks 15 years since the start of the Northern Territory Intervention.

The Stronger Futures laws, which include alcohol bans on multiple NT communities, are due to expire in July

What is the legacy of the Northern Territory Intervention?

What is the legacy of the Northern Territory Intervention?

What is the legacy of the Northern Territory Intervention?

What is the legacy of the Northern Territory Intervention?

With the end of the 'Stronger Futures' legislation in sight, where to from here?

With the end of the 'Stronger Futures' legislation in sight, where to from here?

Tony Albert's “Brothers” engages with issues of race, police violence, discrimination and identity. This single installation features twenty-six portraits of young Aboriginal men with targets painted onto their chests, as well as designs and symbols that Albert associates with strength and resistance. Albert was inspired by events that took place in Sydney in 2012, when two teenage Aboriginal joyriders were shot and injured at the hands of police. Following this, a protest was held at Sydney's Town Hall, and friends of the victims appeared with targets drawn on their chests. For Albert, the target symbolizes the daily experiences of being racially targeted. It also refers to the stereotypes applied to Aboriginal people as a result of government policies, such as the Northern Territory Intervention. Tony Albert is a Girramay artist. His work is held in numerous public and private collections internationally. In 2014 he won both the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize and the prestigious $50,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. He is known internationally and recently unveiled a major commission in Sydney's Hyde Park, a monument dedicated to Australia's Indigenous military service men and women. Brothers (Moving Targets) 2015 41 3/8 x 28 1/4 in. (105.09 x 71.76 cm) Tony Albert, Indigenous Australian, b. 1981  Scarred pigment print on paper Gift of the Artist, 2016

See the work on the Kluge-Ruhe's Website.Tony Albert’s Brothers engaged with issues of race, police violence, discrimination and identity. This single installation features twenty-six portraits of young Aboriginal men with targets painted onto their chests, as well as designs and symbols that Albert associates with strength and resistance. Albert was inspired by events that took place in Sydney in 2012, when two teenage Aboriginal joyriders were shot and injured at the hands of police. Following this, a protest was held at Sydney’s Town Hall, and friends of the victims appeared with targets drawn on their chests. For Albert, the target symbolizes the daily experiences of being racially targeted. It also refers to the stereotypes applied to Aboriginal people as a result of government policies, such as the Northern Territory Intervention.Tony Albert is a Girramay artist. His work is held in numerous public and private collections internationally. In 2014 he won both the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize and the prestigious $50,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. He is known internationally and recently unveiled a major commission in Sydney’s Hyde Park, a monument dedicated to Australia’s Indigenous military service men and women.

June 21 marked 13 years of the failed Northern Territory Intervention.To mark this date, groups Concerned Australians, the Intervention Rollback Action Group and Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney held an online forum featuring five First Nations speakers speaking from on country across the NT via video link, moderated by First Nations Professor Larissa Behrendt AO. This week we bring you excerpts from the forum, featuring Aunty Pat Ansell Dodds of Grandmothers Against Removals Mbarntwe (Alice Springs), Amelia Kunoth-Monks of Arlparra (Utopia), and Barbara Shaw, founding member of the Intervention Rollback Action Group, speaking from Mbarntwe. The full forum included First Nations speakers Harry Jakamarra Nelson, Warlpiri Elder from Yuendumu, and Yingiya Mark Guyula MLA - a Liya Dhalinymirr leader of the Djambarrpuyngu people. Stephen Gray, Lead researcher of the recent Monash University Castan Report, Northern Territory Intervention: Evaluation Report 2020 and Greg Marks, international human rights law expert in Indigenous rights and former NT resident also spoke.The forum can be heard in full at the Concerned Australians website. 

In episode 7 Carly speaks with Anna Carlson who is a cofounder and organiser of the Brisbane Free University, co-host of 4zzz's Radio Reversal and a freelance radio producer, illustrator, writer and community (dis)organiser. She is mid way through her PhD, supervised by Dr. Alissa Macoun, Associate Professor Chelsea Bond, Dr. Liz Strakosh, and Dr. David Singh. Her research examines the relationship between surveillance and colonial governance in (so-called) Brisbane, focusing on how surveillance functions to produce and maintain settler colonial regimes of possession, ownership and belonging. Anna is a white settler currently based on Yuggera country, and committed to finding ethical paths between colonial complicity, accountability, solidarity and resistance. Some texts that Anna mentions in our conversation, or that have framed her thinking around colonialism & surveillance:Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2015) The White PossessiveSimone Browne (2015) Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of BlacknessStuart Hall et al (2013) Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the state and law and order (2nd Edition)Natalie Harkin (2019) Archival PoeticsAlison Whittaker (2018) blakworkChelsea Bond (forthcoming) Another Day in the Colony Irene Watson (2009) "In the Northern Territory Intervention, what is saved or rescued and at what cost?", Cultural Studies Review Chelsea Bond & David Singh (2020) "More than a refresh required for closing the gap of Indigenous health inequality", Medical Journal of Australia Elia Zureik, David Lyon, and Yasmeen Abu-Laban (Eds) (2010) Surveillance & Control in Israel/PalestineAmy McQuire (2019) "Black and White Witness", MeanjinAlison Whittaker (2018) 'White Law, Blak Arbiters, Grey Legal Subjects: Deep Colonisation's Role and Impact in Defining Aboriginality at Law', Australian Indigenous Law Review (20)Evelyn Araluen Corr (2018) "Silence and Resistance: Aboriginal Women working within or against the archive", ContinuumRuth Wilson Gilmore & James Kilgore (2015) "The Case for Abolition": https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/06/19/the-case-for-abolitionPodcasts:Let's Talk (with the Academics) (On race, health and responsibility in the colony): https://989fm.com.au/listen/programs/lets-talk/989fm-presents-a-special-lets-talk-with-the-academics/Nick Estes (2018) "Native Resistance and the Carceral State: Rustbelt Abolition Radio": https://rustbeltradio.org/2018/07/11/ep19/AND, my amazing colleague Shreya and I interviewed a bunch of great activists and academics on the intersections of colonialism, race and policing in COVID-19 for our radio show (Radio Reversal) last week, so head over to 4zzz to listen back to that show for the next 6 weeks!http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/radio-reversal

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode features Debra Adelaide discussing her collection Zebra.Debra Adelaide’s Zebra is a collection of fourteen stories; from the hilarity of an intricately catered Xmas lunch to the horror of a future Australia where the Northern Territory Intervention is taken to a hideous conclusion. The titular story in the collection is a novella exploring the rule of a very different kind of Australian Prime Minister. Overseeing a period of calm and prosperity she’s unsure of herself privately but undoubtedly a public success; the stories focuses on her creation of a unique public garden for The Lodge while attempting to manage the relationships around her. Oh, and she’s also given a Zebra as a gift…

“We don't look back enough to go forward, I don't think. We need to look in the rear view mirror everyday.” Professor Mick Dodson AM, a Yawuru Aboriginal man, Australian barrister, academic and recently retired Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at ANU, talks to our own Julia Brown about some of the ongoing struggles for Indigenous Australians. They discuss education and language, calling out everyday racism and unacceptable behaviours toward women, the role of anthropology in Indigenous Australian affairs, the Northern Territory Intervention, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and self determination. The Native Title Act (or Settlement) is also mentioned, along with the Stolen Generations and the 2008 Apology. Their conversation concludes with a reflection on Indigenous meanings of health and well-being. QUOTES “These are probably the oldest languages in the world. There's something wrong with your values if you don't think that that heritage is of any worth.” “The thing that troubles me about anthropologists is that there's a level of preciousness that seems to afflict the discipline.” “I think the great thing that's happened in research of any sort but particularly anthropology is the ethical clearances processes... how are you going to be impartial, independent - that's where preciousness gets in the way.” “Maybe we should select people to study anthropology with greater scrutiny.” “‘Going native' ought to be frowned upon. You know, you can understand it but don't try and become it.” “In its essence self determination is having control of your destiny, as a group. It's a right of peoples... coupled with social justice it means that you as a group are in control of the decisions that affect not just your daily lives but what happens to you as a group, into the future.” “With the Uluru Statement, it's been framed in a negative way ... The response is really mean-spirited, and unfair, unjust, and a perpetuation of the colonial project really - ‘we'll decide what's best for you black fellas, cause we have the power and whatever you dish up we can say yes or no to.'" "The black armband is going to be worn until there's reason to take it off. And we haven't given, as a nation, any reason to take it off. And it's not about blaming the present generation. But we can blame them if they refuse to accept this history." "Subsection 26 of section 51 [of the Australian constitution] allows the parliament to pass laws that can be racially discriminatory. And they have. Since 1967, they have, at least five times, used that power to discriminate against Australia's Indigenous people and only Australia's Indigenous people." “There is a connection between culture and identity confusion... connecting the young with the broader family, clan, nation, universe, has broken down, through colonisation and dispossession.” “Yawuru people have a notion of Liyan, which is a feeling of well-being... health is not just a physical condition, it's also a spiritual and intellectual and cultural condition." CITATIONS Dodson, M. 1994. ‘The End in the Beginning: Re(de)finding Aboriginality' Wentworth Lecture. On the Northern Territory Intervention: https://www.monash.edu/law/research/centres/castancentre/our-research-areas/indigenous-research/the-northern-territory-intervention/the-northern-territory-intervention-an-evaluation/what-is-the-northern-territory-intervention The Uluru Statement from the Heart: https://www.referendumcouncil.org.au/sites/default/files/2017-05/Uluru_Statement_From_The_Heart_0.PDF This anthropology podcast is supported by the Australian Anthropological Society, the ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific and College of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and is produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association. Music by Pete Dabro: dabro1.bandcamp.com Show notes by Julia Brown

This week we have two reports that look at two perspectives on mining in Australia. We hear from Dusty a retired Hunter valley coal miner and ex CFMEU activist Dusty about a major employee privacy breach at BHP Billiton and follows up with an overview of coal mining projects in the area. We follow this with a first nation’s perspective on the Northern Territory Intervention and it’s role in opening up traditional lands to mining. 

It's been 10 years since the beginning of the Northern Territory Intervention, a far-reaching and disempowering intrusion into the lives of Aboriginal people. In June 2017 a conference in Alice Springs brought people together from across Australia to hear about the impacts and to work together to end this disgraceful government regime of control.Listen up for the call-out: a national weekend of action to end deaths in custody and shut youth prisons on 28-30 September.Links:Intervention Roll-back Action GroupShut Youth Prisons MparntweEarth Matters #1103 was produced by Gem Romuld.

Living Black host Karla Grant speaks to veteran Australian journalist and film-maker John Pilger about his plight to raise awareness of the issues Indigenous Australians face in his new documentary, Utopia. Broadcast 26 May 2014. Living Black Series 20 (An NITV/SBS Production) CC

Australia's premier Indigenous current affairs program, Living Black provides timely, intelligent and comprehensive coverage of the issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

In August of 2007 the Howard federal government introduced a wide range of measures aimed at addressing the serious issues of child sexual abuse reported in the Little Children Are Sacred report. The more controversial aspects of the Commonwealth measures involved the compulsory acquisitions of townships by the government through five-year leases, the dismantling of the permit system for communities on Aboriginal land, the removal of customary law and cultural background as considerations during bail and sentencing, an increased police presence in indigenous communities and reforms to welfare payments. There is a tendency, amongst critics of the Northern Territory Intervention, to interpret the Intervention as a case of illiberal and exceptional policy. Critics have appeared bewildered by the ability of policy to fall so far short of normative ideals of liberal government. This is an understandable disillusionment but it leaves critics of the NT Intervention without a tool for understanding how a policy which they see as self-evidently discriminatory and authoritarian could possibly have received bi-partisan political support.In this seminar presentation Melissa Lovell (Australian National University) draws on ideas about authoritarian liberal government and the liberal tradition of evaluating the capacity of liberal citizens to develop an understanding of the justifications given for the NT Intervention. In the case of the NT Intervention, authoritarian measures are deemed necessary to bring reforms into place and secure liberal freedom for potential liberal citizens (including the innocent children at the centre of the Little Children Are Sacred Report). This relies on the representation of indigenous people as citizens who are not yet capable of making good decisions. However there is an ongoing tension, in liberal politics, between the choice of authoritarian policy to enforce liberal ideals of citizenship and freedom and the liberal preference for facilitative forms of government. Arguments against the Northern Territory Intervention should therefore capitalize on the preference for facilitative forms of government and incorporate a critique of the 'goals' for which authoritarian policy is justified.This seminar was delivered as part of the 2009 Institute for Social Research Lunchtime Lectures.