Response, by the Aboriginals, to the issues of statehood and governance in the Northern Territory of Australia. This statement was produced in Kalkaringi in August 1998.
Award-winning documentary about Aboriginal rights and the response to the Australian Federal Government's Northern Territory Intervention which exerts compulsory control over 73 communities.
Duration: 1:13:42.
Accompanied by Study Guide
An Essay Commissioned by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Ottawa, Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Jull
Description
Looks at the history of policy-making from the 1950s to the early 1990s and conflicts which have arisen between Indigenous peoples and governments. Compares developments to those in Australia's Northern Territory.
Revised 3rd edition.
Judge ruled that the Crown could not sue on behalf of victims, which undermined the position that Aboriginals were wards of the state. Article uses new archival documents to document litigation and show the ideological dilemmas faced by the welfare administration.
Aboriginal Law Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 53, 1991, p. 63
Description
Dismissal of a charge for supplying Kave, contrary to s.19 of the Consumer Protection Act, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Kava is the name given to a drink prepared from the root of the piper methysticum plant.