Black NT welfare recipients to have half their entitlement seized, regardless of past spending habits
NATIONAL, August 6, 2007: Every Aboriginal person receiving welfare benefits in the Northern Territory who lives in one of the 73 communities targeted for intervention will have 50 percent of their entitlements controlled by government bureaucrats, regardless of their past spending habits.
Big Brother will be watching you: The Howard government’s extraordinary interventionNATIONAL, August 6, 2007: The Howard government is poised to introduce legislation into federal parliament aimed at giving it extraordinary powers of control over the lives of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, including the power to have government officials sit in on the private meetings of Aboriginal organisations.
Member of Stolen Generation awarded $500,000 compensation
ADELAIDE, August 2, 2007: An Aboriginal man taken from his family as a baby has been awarded more than $500,000 compensation in a South Australian court, a first for a member of the stolen generation.
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