Sentences with phrase «northern territory emergency»

On 21 June 2007, the Australian Government announced a series of measures to combat child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, which became known as the «intervention» or the «Northern Territory Emergency Response».

This became known as the «Northern Territory Intervention» or the «Northern Territory Emergency Response».

Likewise in the Northern Territory, in 2005 - 06 (the year prior to the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER)-RRB- 4.2 % of Indigenous child substantiations were for sexual abuse compared to 9.3 % of other Territorian children, [150] a figure that does not appear to support the allegations of endemic child abuse in NT remote communities that was the rationale for the NTER.

This review considered progress in implementing the Northern Territory Emergency Response (or NT intervention).

[23] Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Report on the Northern Territory Emergency Response Redesign Consultations (2009), pp 39 and 51.

[11] Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, «Correspondence to the Australian Government following up on the Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure on the issues raised before the Committee in relation to the Northern Territory Emergency Response», 28 September 2009.

[27] Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Future Directions for the Northern Territory Emergency Response — Discussion Paper (2009).

The Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board was supportive of such recommendations, and recommended that the Government respect Australia's human rights obligations and conform with the Race Discrimination Act.

[5] The Northern Territory Emergency Response serves as an example of the removal of indigenous people's voices in the decision - making process.

As acknowledged by the Special Rapporteur on the situation on the rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples, the lack of appropriate consultation, negotiation, and the application of free, prior, and informed consent, has been clearly demonstrated as a clear violation of human rights standards in the Australian Governments Northern Territory Emergency Response.

[49] Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Policy Statement: Landmark Reform to the Welfare System, Reinstatement of the Racial Discrimination Act and Strengthening of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (2009), p 6.

[46] The sources relied upon by the Government include: the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare, The evaluation of income management in the Northern Territory (2010); Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Report on the Northern Territory Emergency Response Redesign Consultations (2009); Cultural and Indigenous Research Centre Australia (CIRCA), Report on the NTER Redesign Engagement Strategy and Implementation, (2009); Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Final Stores Post Licensing Monitoring Report (2009); Central Land Council, NTER: Perspectives from Six Communities (2008); and analysis of Centrelink data (Rita Markwell, Adviser to Minister Macklin, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Email sent to stakeholders, 18 December 2009).

[30] Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board, Report of the NTER Review Board (2008), ch 2 (2.1 Measure 1: Welfare reform and employment).

Human Rights Committee: The Committee notes with concern that certain of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) measures... are inconsistent with the State party's obligations under the Covenant.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner's Social Justice Report 2007 recommendations for the Northern Territory Emergency Response (see Appendix B)

Submission of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) to the Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board, on the Review of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (15 August 2008).

[79] Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board, Report of the NTER Review Board (2008), p 16.

An objective human rights appraisal of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) measures indicates significant concerns, even in light of the recent reinstatement of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).

And fittingly, as the end - date for laws introduced under the Northern Territory Emergency Response regime approaches in August 2012, I review the recent consultation process and urge the Government to listen to our Indigenous communities.

There is no clearer evidence of this discriminatory effect, than the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) that affects 73 remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.

I next examine the developments in relation to the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) and the Australian Government's engagement framework and how these impact on our rights to participate in decision - making.

[24] Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board, Report of the Northern Territory Review Board, Attorney - General's Department (2008), pp 9 - 10.

[7] Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board, Report of the Northern Territory Review Board, Attorney - General's Department (2008), p 11.

I now turn to Rosie and Djiniyini, two Aboriginal elders who have traveled from Central Australia to deliver an urgent message about the survival of their Aboriginal brothers and sisters, and sons and daughters, living under the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

Federal governments have used this power in 1998, in relation to amendments made to the Native Title Act, and again in 2007 in relation to the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation.

This Review was conducted by the Northern Territory Emergency Review Board (NTER Review Board), comprised of Peter Yu, Marcia Ella Duncan and Bill Gray AM.

The Australian Government has also retained measures that were introduced as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (also known as the «Intervention»).

Those purposes related to resetting the relationship continuing the Northern Territory Emergency Response and reinstating the Racial Discrimination Act,... That was the purpose that the consultations were entered into for... [168]

A lot of them stem from the treatment of Aboriginal people in those 73 communities that bare the brunt of the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

The second consultation process that I will examine concerns the 2010 amendments to the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) measures.

The Little Children are Sacred Report, the Report of the Review of the Northern Territory Emergency Response, the report of the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues, James Anaya and the Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services, Brian Gleeson all speak of the necessity to build relationships between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples which are based on trust and mutual respect.

That the Northern Territory Emergency Taskforce make publicly available its strategic communications plan as well as other operational plans, within six months, and the long term plans being developed in relation to the intervention, within 12 months; and that information regarding significant revisions to these plans should be provided in the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report (para 3.18).

The original Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) Bill of 2007 involved the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act making it fundamentally discriminatory to Aboriginal people.

Income management schemes introduced under the Northern Territory Emergency Response was extended for up to 12 months in four Northern Territory communities - Mutitjulu, Finke / Apatula, Titjikala and Imanpa.

Noting that the Australian Government is in the process of «redesigning key [Northern Territory Emergency Response] measures in order to guarantee their consistency with the Racial Discrimination Act», the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination requested details of the Government's progress:

The Australian Government received the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) Review Board's Report.

The Australian Government first implemented its tenure reform policies in the Northern Territory, initially through township leases and then as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

I begin this Chapter with a reflection on the previous Government's approach to land rights and native title, including its 1998 amendments to the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)(Native Title Act); the 2006 amendments to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth)(ALRA) and the 2007 compulsory acquisition of lands for the purposes of the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

For example, the Commonwealth's Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation exempts the Queensland government from the operation of the RDA in the operations of the Family Responsibilities Commission.

2007 compulsory acquisition of lands for the purposes of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (the Northern Territory intervention).

in redesigning the Northern Territory Emergency Response, in direct consultation with the communities and individuals affected

The Chapter then reviews developments in relation to tenure reform in the Northern Territory, and includes an updated discussion of the Northern Territory Emergency Response and of township leasing.

The first part of this section provides an update on the Northern Territory Emergency Response, the second part provides an update on township leases and the third part looks at the lease requirements for new houses.

[107] On 21 May 2009, the Australian Government released a discussion paper called Future Directions for the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

On 27 February 2009, about a month after the Wurridjal decision was handed down, the Government announced that it had finalised boundaries for all 64 five - year leases that were acquired by the Government as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

The Australian Government's report on the Northern Territory Emergency Response Redesign Consultation detailed findings of the consultations conducted by the Government from June to August 2009.

The case studies I collected reinforced that the only way the Northern Territory Emergency Response, and in fact the entire spectrum of Indigenous service delivery and policy, would succeed was if we worked in partnership with communities.

The Authority called for the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation to be repealed as a matter of urgency and for Indigenous peoples to be able to use their resources for their own advancement.

The Social Justice Report 2007 examines the human rights implications of the Northern Territory Emergency Response introduced in the Northern Territory in 2007, in response to the problems of family violence and child abuse identified in the little Children Are Sacred Report.

The remaining 12 recommendations came out of my human rights analysis of the Northern Territory Emergency Response («NTER» / «NT Intervention»).