3 years of racist shame! Stop the NT Intervention rally

STICS has organised a rally to mark the third anniversary of the NT Intervention on June 20th, 12 pm at Town Hall.

3 years of the Intervention has meant 3 years of assimilation of Aboriginal communities. This has meant 3 years of welfare quarantining, compulsory land leases and General Business Managers on Aboriginal communities.

The Intervention is continuing despite no evidence of welfare quarantining benefiting Aboriginal communities, as the recent Menzies health report demonstrated. Aboriginal communities are being forced into 20 ‘hubtowns' and out of homelands or remote communities. Despite a $680 million SIHIP programme only 6 or 7 new houses have been built for Aboriginal communities. More recently we have seen Aboriginal jobs cut and replaced with Macklin's new Communitiy Development and Employment Programmes (CDEP) meaning people like P. Inverway from Kalkaringi are working for the Basics Card - essentially working for rations.

Three years of racist shame - Stop the NT Intervention!

* Make All Laws Subject to the Racial Discrimination Act
* Real Jobs not BasicsCards
* Land Rights not Leases
* Stop Compulsory Income Management

Join the growing union and community opposition to the NT Intervention on June 20, 12pm at Town Hall.