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NSW neglecting abuse epidemic: Howard The NSW Govt commissioned a report on Indigenous abuse last year. PM playing politics in election year: states Indigenous plan like Iraq invasion: Rann Community mystified by Govt intervention Education crucial in Indigenous intervention Urgent action was required: Howard Howard faces resistance over Indigenous plan Doctors urged to commit to Indigenous plan Plan not racist or politically motivated: Howard
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News, 25 June 2007, 405 Words, (English)
Prime Minister John Howard has accused the New South Wales Government of responding slowly to sexual abuse in Indigenous communities. Mr Howard says the Federal Government's indigenous reforms were prompted by the report, which detailed ...

Community residents flee, fearing children will be taken
The Australian, 26 June 2007, 486 Words, (English)
ABORIGINES are fleeing Mutitjulu -- the first indigenous town to receive police and troops under John Howard's radical plan to tackle child sexual abuse -- amid fears that the Government will take their children.

We don't need the army: Indigenous leaders
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News, 25 June 2007, 196 Words, (English)
The leaders of the Mutijulu community in Central Australia say there's no need for military occupation. Federal police and members of the defence force are expected to be deployed to the community as early as next week as part of the

Govt slammed for refusal to fund 'healthy' festival
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News, 25 June 2007, 150 Words, (English)
The Northern Territory Government has again come under fire for its inaction on Indigenous affairs. The Government has refused to provide $140,000 to a festival in Alice Springs that is aimed at encouraging children to go to school and ..

Questions about medical staff availability Indigenous health plan a work in progress: Abbott
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts, 25 June 2007, 874 Words, (English)
ELEANOR HALL: A central part of the Federal Government's plan to deal with the abuse problem in the Northern Territory is that every Indigenous child in remote communities should have a medical check-up.

Bad parents may lose welfare cash
The West Australian, 23 June 2007, 387 Words, (English)
Australian parents on welfare risk having their payments replaced by food and rent vouchers if they neglect their children, with the Howard Government poised to extend a new crackdown on bad parenting beyond Aboriginal communities.

Full wages offered to Indigenous plan workers
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News, 25 June 2007, 259 Words, (English)
People in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory will be offered full wages to help implement the Federal Government's plan to improve the plight of the Indigenous people in remote areas.

Report buried for 12 months
The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 2007, 361 Words, (English)
ABORIGINAL CRISIS - NSW AUDIT A PROPOSAL that the NSW Ombudsman audit efforts to combat sexual abuse of indigenous children has gone unheeded by the State Government.

Push for food-only benefits
The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 2007, 292 Words, (English)
ABORIGINAL CRISIS - CRACKDOWN AN EFTPOS system that would automatically prevent delinquent parents from spending family benefits on anything but food and essentials has been floated by the Family and Community Services Minister, Mal .

Mutitjulu is a troubled Aboriginal community. Amid fanfare, its police station opened last year. It is still waiting for police to arrive.
The Age, 25 June 2007, 1156 Words, (English)
ELDERS of Mutitjulu, a long-troubled community in the shadow of the Aboriginal symbol Uluru, told the Northern Territory's child sex inquiry they were fed up with being used as a political football and wanted no longer to be the centre of

Non-indigenous prey on young
The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2007, 263 Words, (English)
PORNOGRAPHY WAR ON ABUSE NON-INDIGENOUS pedophiles, including school principals and builders, screen pornography to young Aboriginal males and give them alcohol on condition they bring young children to viewings, a prominent indigenous

Abuse checks could be assault: specialist
The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2007, 331 Words, (English)
WAR ON ABUSE - Medical examinations SEXUAL abuse checks would be "highly inappropriate" and could themselves amount to sexual assault, unless they were confined to children in whom abuse was strongly suspected, a specialist on Aboriginal

Co-architect defends Indigenous plan National Indigenous Council chairwoman speaks to AM
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts, 23 June 2007, 1474 Words, (English)
ELIZABETH JACKSON: West Australian Magistrate Sue Gordon is the Chairwoman of the National Indigenous Council. She worked alongside the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Mal Brough in putting the Government's plan together and she'll

Vic Indigenous communities 'face similar problems' as NT
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News, 23 June 2007, 236 Words, (English)
A peak Indigenous health body says Aboriginal communities in Victoria are facing the same drug, alcohol and child abuse problems as those in the Northern Territory.

Land Council unhappy over permit system scrapping
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News, 23 June 2007, 224 Words, (English)
The Central Land Council is angry everyone will be able to access Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory now that permits will be scrapped.

No escape from emergency plan
Australian Financial Review (Abstracts), 23 June 2007, 125 Words, (English)
Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough yesterday said indigenous people in remote communities could not escape draconian new laws aimed at lessening child abuse by moving into towns.

Howard sweeps aside political correctness in attack on abuse
The West Australian, 22 June 2007, 514 Words, (English)
John Howards radical reform plan for Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory is politically unprecedented in its scope and daring. It is also fundamentally justifiable.

So much for consultation being the way to fix it
The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2007, 899 Words, (English)
The Week By law, Aborigines in the Northern Territory were not allowed to drink alcohol until 1964. I was working as a young journalist in Darwin when the ban was repealed, and I remember writing the story on the day the pubs were opened ...

Consult us and respect us: health expert's passionate plea
The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2007, 332 Words, (English)
WAR ON ABUSE - Open letter ABORIGINAL Australians are being used "in a desperate game of wedge politics where the prize is electoral success", Sydney's most prominent indigenous health leader has said in an open letter to the Federal .

Grog ban may fuel increase in abuse - HOWARD'S BLUEPRINT
The Australian, 23 June 2007, 559 Words, (English)
A SUDDEN ban on alcohol in remote areas of the Northern Territory could lead to an increase in abuse in indigenous communities as alcoholics descend into a spiral of violent withdrawal.

Plenty of opportunities for predators - HOWARD'S BLUEPRINT
The Australian, 23 June 2007, 396 Words, (English)
IT was claims of sophisticated pedophile rings moving in and out of remote communities, preying on the young and vulnerable, that took the breath away when an inquiry was launched last year into sexual abuse of indigenous children.

A FAILED INDIGENOUS EXPERIMENT ENDS
The Australian, 23 June 2007, 922 Words, (English)
National emergency confirms three decades of denial THE declaration of a national emergency in Aboriginal Australia puts an end to the great experiment of exceptionalism that glorified indigenous culture but was blinded to the modern-day ..

Women pursued over housing row
The Courier-Mail, 23 June 2007, 190 Words, (English)
FOUR Aboriginal women face bankruptcy proceedings as the legal row over the collapse of the Charleville-based Bidjara group of companies continues.

CAUSE FOR HOPE
The Australian, 23 June 2007, 2145 Words, (English)
REMOTE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES ARE LIVING WITH MORE TROUBLE THAN ANY PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE TO BEAR. NICOLAS ROTHWELL LOOKS TO THE FUTURE AFTER A GENERATION OF FAILED TINKERING HAS GIVEN WAY TO THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT'S EXTRAORDINARY INITIATIVE

AN END TO THE TEARS
The Australian, 23 June 2007, 2886 Words, (English)
ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION CAN'T BE FIXED IMMEDIATELY, BUT THE GOVERNMENT IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO STOP THE SUFFERING IN THE OUTBACK, ARGUES NOEL PEARSON

Cape kids plagued by health problems - HOWARD'S BLUEPRINT
The Australian, 23 June 2007, 466 Words, (English)
A FIVE-YEAR study of health problems faced by children in Cape York shows an increase in sexual and physical abuse, as well as neglect. In its conclusion the report, conducted by Cape York doctors and published last month in the Medical

Push to change land rights `under smokescreen of helping children' - HOWARD'S BLUEPRINT
The Australian, 23 June 2007, 402 Words, (English)
THE federal Government's takeover of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory was an ideological agenda introduced "under the smokescreen of helping children", a prominent Aboriginal leader said as the dramatic move continued to .

Pearson fears for Indigenous parents' freedom All NT Indigenous children under 16 will have compulsory medical examinations. The writings of Noel Pearson on welfare dependency and mutual responsibility have had a strong influence on the Commonwealth crackdown. Pearson discusses Aboriginal abuse intervention Govt urged to give details on abuse crackdown NT scepticism mounts against Indigenous abuse plan Little NSW action on child abuse: Task force chair PM never replied to sex abuse findings: WA PM accused of being racist Indigenous response plan criticised
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News, 22 June 2007, 436 Words, (English)
Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he is concerned responsible Aboriginal parents will be caught up in the Federal Government's crackdown on Indigenous child abuse.

Indigenous plan questioned Govt urged to give details on abuse crackdown
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts, 22 June 2007, 923 Words, (English)
MARK COLVIN: Where's the detail? And why has it taken so long? Those are two of the questions that have started to dominate the debate about Aboriginal child abuse, as the Prime Minister's announcement of a takeover of the Northern ..

NSW has failed to act, say Aboriginal advocates Little NSW action on child abuse: Task force chair
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts, 22 June 2007, 736 Words, (English)
MARK COLVIN: No government - territory, state or federal - can really say that it wasn't told about the problem of child sexual abuse in the Aboriginal community.