Forum on Racism & the Media: The Lie that built the Northern Territory Intervention

Speakers:

Tjanara Goreng Goreng - founder FIRDA Foundation for Indigenous Recovery and Development Australia.Former

Senior Policy Advisor of community engagement and recovery at the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination

under Minister Mal Brough

Chris Graham - Founding and former editor of the National Indigenous Times

‘Racism in the media: the Lie that Built the Northern Territory intervention' is an expose about a fraudulent

ABC Lateline program which aired in the lead-up to the intervention, entitled ‘Sexual slavery reported in

Indigenous communities'.

The Lateline story helped the federal government mount the case for the NT intervention. But as the speakers

revealed, the story was built on a gigantic fraud. The scandal surrounding this story has already destroyed

several careers, sparked a series of parliamentary brawls and high level government, an apology to federal

parliament, not to mention police raids on homes in Canberra and Central Australia.

The forum was hosted by the Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS), an organization which has led the

public campaign to expose the lies and failures of the Northern Territory intervention.