Public meeting: Intervention

Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 18:00

Public meeting: Intervention. On the five-year anniversary of the NT Intervention and at the beginning of a decade of so-called Stronger Futures, our speakers will discuss the scope of the Intervention, what has happened on the ground, and how the Intervention relates to neo-liberal governance and Australia's settler colonial heritage. What are the ways forward? Speakers: Garry Foley (chairperson) plus Jon Altman (ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research); Rosalie Kunoth-Monks (Alyawarr/Anmatyerr Elder and ex-mayor of Barkly Shire, from Utopia, now a prescribed area under the NT Intervention; Alastair Nicholson (former chief justice of the Family Court of Australia); Barbara Shaw (descendant of the Kaytetye, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu people, from Mount Nancy Town Camp, now a prescribed area under the NT Intervention). RSVP by June 19 to Glenise on 9416 0232. Entry by gold coin donation. 6pm. Arena Project Space, 2 Kerr St, Fitzroy. Presented by Arena Magazine and Arena Journal. For more info ph Alison Caddick 0418 304 500.