Stop the Intervention

Navigation

• Current page is 1: Home

• 2: Facts & Info
• 3: Racism and NT Intervention Forum
• 4: Canberra Convergence 09
• 5: Latest News
• 7: Get Involved
• 8: Donate
• 12: Gallery
• 14: Links
• 15: Contact

News

Page 1 of 4  > >>

Actions marking two years since the announcement of the NT Intervention:

Protest, march and concert - marking two years since the announcement of the NT Intervention

10:30am Belmore Park, Eddy avenue, Haymarket (opposite Central station)

March to the Block in Redfern for family and culture day concert

Stop the NT Intervention
> Reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act
> No Blackmail - Land Rights not Leases
> Aboriginal Control of Aboriginal Affairs
> Housing and Services for all Communities
> Jobs - not cuts to CDEP

Speakers include:
> Maurie Japarta Ryan (Central Land Council, NT)
> Larissa Behrendt
> Adam Kerslake (Unions NSW)
> Geoff Scott (NSW Aboriginal Land Council)
> Jim Allen (Board Member NSW Aboriginal Housing Office)
> Jeff McMullen
> Dootch Kennedy (Illawarra Aboriginal Land Council)

Performers include:
> The Last Kinection
> Nadeena Dixon
> Cuzco
> Maupower (Torres Strait)
> Dizzy Doolan
> DJ Exile (Aotearoa)

Stand Against Rudd's Racism

June 20, 2009 will mark two years since the Howard government announced its Intervention into NT Indigenous communities.

The Intervention promised health, housing and education - but it has delivered only racism, the destruction of Aboriginal control and worsening social problems. After the allocation of more than $1 billion the only houses that have been built with intervention funds have been for government managers imposed on communities. The compulsory quarantine of welfare payments is causing greater poverty, real hunger and segregation in Centrelink and in shops.

The Rudd government has made symbolic gestures to try and signal a break from the racism of Howard - apologising to the Stolen Generations and recently signing on to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But this is hypocrisy. They have pursued Howard's agenda of "mainstreaming" and assimilation with force, expanding the Intervention, despite the recommendations of their own ‘review'.

In the NT, they have also overseen the withdrawal of funding from remote ‘outstations', forcing migration into towns, and severe restrictions on teaching in Aboriginal languages. The government has pledged to re-instate the Racial Discrimination Act this spring, but has insisted this will mean no ‘softening' of punitive Intervention policies.

Land Rights not Leases - Stop the national expansion of Intervention policies

A key aspect of the Northern Territory Intervention has been the compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal township land for five years. Housing assets have been forcibly transferred from community councils to the NT public housing agency. Over the past nine months, the government has announced that only 16 of the 73 ‘prescribed communities' will receive any funding for new housing. And these communities have been given an ultimatum. They must sign township land over to the government for between 40-90 years before any construction can commence. While a handful of communities-desperate for housing and under extreme pressure-have signed these leases, the majority say they will never sign away Land Rights fought for over decades.

In March, the government announced it would extend the policy nationally - no new housing will be built in any remote community across Australia unless long-term leases are signed. And of the scores of Aboriginal communities in NSW who desperately need housing, only two - Walgett and Wilcannia - will receive funding.

The abolition of Aboriginal controlled Community Development Employment Projects (CDEPs) was a cornerstone of Howard's Intervention, forcing thousands of Indigenous people in the NT out of work. Now this policy is also being rolled out nationally, with up to 30,000 CDEP jobs facing the axe this July. In the face of looming global recession this is madness. We need to fight these policies aimed at breaking up Aboriginal control and forcing Aboriginal people to leave their communities.

June 20 will be a national day of action, including a march in Darwin led by Aboriginal people living under Intervention policies. Join in the rally, march and concert in Sydney. Demand an end to Rudd's racism and funding now for Aboriginal controlled housing and services in all communities.

For more info contact the Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) through
Monique on 0415 410 558 or
Paddy on 0415 800 586

To see the flyer for the protest: click here

National Actions marking two years since the announcement of the

NT Intervention:

STICS (Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney) Meeting:

Trade Unions and the Fight for Aboriginal Rights

6 - 7.30 pm Tuesday 7th April 2009

Level 4, Teachers Federation,
Teachers Federation House
23-33 Mary Street, Surry Hills (off Albion Street near Elizabeth Street)

Fred Moore - former General Secretary of the Illawarra Trades and Labour Council and founder of the Illawarra Aboriginal Advancement League

Uncle Dootch Kenedy, Chair of the Illawarra Aboriginal Lands Council

Dootch and Fred have both been central to different eras of the strong collaboration between the trade unions and the Aboriginal community on the South Coast of NSW. This meeting will discuss the proud history of union involvement in the campaigns that have fought for Aboriginal rights, from the struggles against White Australia and the Protection Boards, to the 1967 referendum, to Land Rights.

As the NT Intervention nears its second year, and winds back many of the rights to land and respect that were so hard fought for, STICS looks at how we can use the power of trade unions to stop racist government policy today.

For more information email stoptheintervention@gmail.com or call Jean 0449 646 593

 

LAND RIGHTS NOT LEASES!

DON'T ROLL OUT THE INTERVENTION, REPEAL IT!

PICKET KEVIN RUDD'S OFFICE

(70 Phillip Street, Sydney)

MONDAY 30th MARCH 2009 at 1pm

WITH VALERIE MARTIN - YUENDEMU COMMUNITY, NT

"We want the Government to stop blackmailing us. We want houses, but we will not sign any leases over our land, because we want to keep control of our country, our houses, and our property"

reads a statement to Jenny Macklin signed by 236 Yuendemu residents.

For more info call 0401 955 405

For our March bulletin, please click here.

 

Racism and the NT Intervention - Forum

A forum addressing the impact of the ongoing suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act by the Rudd Government.

Sunday, March 22nd 2009 at 3pm
at the Guthrie Theatre, UTS, 702 Harris St, Broadway, Sydney

Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

To read Irene Fisher's Speech, please click here.

Speakers:
Clare Martin - CEO Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) and former NT Chief Minister
Unfortunately due to urgent family matters Clare Martin had to cancel, but will have her statement read out at the Forum
Irene Fisher - CEO Sunrise Health Service, Katherine NT
Valerie Martin - Yuendumu community, NT
David Cooper- National Director of ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) Australia
Geoff Scott - NSW Aboriginal Land Council
Liv Nigro - Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney

Chaired by Eva Cox - Women for Wik

To see the latest Media Release for further info please click here.

Sinem Saban introduced and showed the promo of her documentary.
Link to promo of documentary: http://youtube.com/watch?v=V6HmaDe1DS4
Link to interview with The Guardian, UK: http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=373&catID=6

Suggested donation $5/10

The Rudd government continues to suspend the Racial Discrimination Act to allow NT Intervention measures to be enforced on Aboriginal communities.

Minister Jenny Macklin has said the government "hopes to develop arrangements that will not require suspension of the RDA" by spring this year.

But conditions deteriorate every day the discrimination continues.

The compulsory income quarantine is pushing communities into further poverty and in many cases making it harder to access food.

Irene Fisher will discuss emerging evidence that many key health indicators are going backwards.

And the government is taking steps to entrench Intervention powers.

Communities are being denied any new housing until they lease their land over to the government for between 40-90 years. And despite chronic overcrowding everywhere, only 16 of the 73 prescribed communities are being offered any new housing.

Jenny Macklin has reinforced her commitment to compulsory Income Management and is introducing further punitive measures. Katherine is one area trialling the 8-week suspension of welfare payments for school attendance problems.

To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, come along to hear more about the impact of the Intervention and discuss how to strengthen the campaign against the government's racism.

 

Film Screening:
Many thanks for coming to hear voices from the Northern Territory speak about life under the Intervention and the struggle to support them in Sydney. At the Teachers Federation on Monday, 19 January 2009 at 6 pm. Click here for a write-up and links to the Canberra Short:

 

Stop the racism - Converge on Canberra

- Immediately reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act

- Repeal the NT Intervention laws

- Justice Not Jail - Stop Black Deaths in Custody

- Community control and full funding for all Aboriginal services, housing, health and education. Stop the cuts to CDEP

- Recognise the culturally autonomous Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Nations of the Australian continent and immediately end the one-size fits all approach to Indigenous affairs. Consult with communities and nation groups independently in order to develop policy in partnership with sovereign cultural law and practice.

- Full welfare rights for all. End the punitive welfare quarantine.

- Immediately adopt the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Aboriginal Australia still waits for human rights. Aboriginal people are 13 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous Australians and horrific deaths in custody continue, as highlighted by recent events on Palm Island. Aboriginal babies die at more than twice the rate of the non-Indigenous population. The Stolen Generations still wait for compensation. Land rights are under increasing threat by mining companies and waste dumps and by the government's push for leases to remove community control over community land. Labor has not adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The NT Intervention is based on Racial Discrimination:

In April 2008, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tom Calma said, "The most revealing indicator that the NT intervention was not consistent with human rights principles was the provision at the centre of the legislative machinery used to support the intervention, namely suspending the operation of Racial Discrimination Act."

Yet the Rudd government says the Racial Discrimination Act will remain suspended and a blanket welfare quarantine will be maintained for at least the next year.

An Intervention that relies on the suspension of the very Act designed to protect people from racism, makes a mockery of any claim that it is for the benefit of Aboriginal people.

Self-determination - Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs:

"For old people the intervention is bringing up bad memories of the past, the old days, the ration days, the dog tag days and the mission days" (Women's statement from the inaugural Prescribed Area People's Alliance, 29 September 2008).

Under the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), leases and government business managers have been imposed on prescribed communities.

The only houses built with Intervention funds have been for the business managers, many of which are unoccupied. Only a handful of 'prescribed' communities have been offered funding for housing - and only if they lease their land to the government for 40, 60 or even 90 years.

Many communities, deemed "unviable" will be denied funding and basic welfare rights.

Successful programs run by local communities dealing with issues of alcohol abuse, domestic violence and education, have been dismantled as the NTER has taken bureaucratic control. The recommendations of the "Little Children are Sacred" report are being ignored.

The women of the Prescribed Area People's Alliance declared, "we want to strongly maintain and practice our culture. We want to stay in our communities and pass on traditional knowledge to the future generations."

Yet the NT government has announced a ban on the teaching of Aboriginal languages in schools for all but one hour in the afternoons.

This approach - of open assimilation and "mainstreaming" is being rolled out across Australia. Koori schools in Victoria are being closed by the state government.

Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP), a crucial source of support for Aboriginal communities and employment for thousands of families, are being threatened with closure nationally. People are facing the prospect of having to leave their communities in order to access employment and basic welfare rights.

Welfare rights are non-negotiable:

The Intervention represents a wholesale attack on Australia's commitment to universal social security rights. "Income management" means Aboriginal people are treated as second-class citizens. Some communities literally rely on the uncertain delivery of food parcels. Others are left with no money to attend funerals or ceremonies, pay for school excursions, or even buy Christmas presents.

Aboriginal communities nationally are bearing the brunt of attempts to extend the punitive "income management" regime.

Never Again

In February 2008, Prime Minister Rudd apologized to the Stolen Generations committing the government to, "A future where this Parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again".

But injustices are being perpetuated under the NT Intervention. The paternalism that created "the gap" between the lives of Aboriginal people and the rest of Australia is being fostered by the Intervention and the renewed push for assimilation.

The solution to the poverty and disadvantage of Aboriginal communities begins with self-determination - allowing affected communities to decide what programs are needed and how they will be implemented.

The Labor government's own NTER Review (13 October 2008) stated, "...addressing specific concerns in Aboriginal communities does not require the exclusion of fundamental human rights such as the Racial Discrimination Act."

The following individuals and organisations support a convergence in Canberra on the opening day of parliament, 3 February 2009, to say no to racism and demand justice for Aboriginal Australia:

Central Land Council - Full Council
Prescribed Area People's Alliance (NT)
QLD Aboriginal Council Mayors roundtable
Intervention Rollback Action Group (Mparntwe - Alice Springs)
Stop the Intervention Collective (Sydney)
Aboriginal Rights Coalition (Brisbane)
Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Canberra)
Top End Aboriginal Conservation Alliance
Sunrise Health Service (Katherine)
Black GST
Camp Sovereignty
Gordon & Elaine Syron, The Keeping Place/Black Fella's Dreaming Museum
Aboriginal Tent Embassy (ACT)
Nuclear Disarmament Party
Women for Wik
WA Aboriginal Rights Coalition
Socialist Alliance
Port Phillip Citizens for Reconciliation Inc.
Reconciliation Victoria
NSW Aboriginal Land Council
Socialist Alternative
Murri Ministry Aboriginal Catholic Ministry AICC Brisbane
BM Antar
ANTaR
ANTaR SA
National Association of Community Legal Centres
Alliance for Indigenous Self Determination
NSW Reconciliation Council
Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation
SUPRA
FBEU (Fire Brigade Employees Union)
COORABIN National Indigenous News & Information Network
Solomums Australia for Family Equity
ANTaR Victoria
Illawarra Local Aboriginal Land Council

Harry Nelson (Yuendumu)
Phillip Wilyuka (Titjikala)
Barbara Shaw (Mt Nancy Town Camp)
Dootch Kennedy
Michael Mansell
Sam Watson
Robbie Thorpe
Les Malezer
Nicole Watson
Monique Wiseman
Pastor Ray Minniecon
Millie Ingram
Donna Jackson
Tiga Bailes
Irene Fisher
Dianne Stokes
Mark Lane
Jeff McMullen (Journalist, author, film maker, CEO Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth)
Professor Larissa Behrendt (Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning UTS)
Leonie Chester
Elaine Peckham (Iwupataka)
Eva Cox
George Newhouse (B.Com, LL.B, Human Rights Lawyer representing the Prescribed Area People's Alliance in the United Nations)
Jon Altman
Shane Phillips
Valerie Martin (Yuendumu)
Lee Rhiannon (Greens NSW MP)
John Kaye (Greens NSW MP)
Nala Mansell-McKenna, State Secretary, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
Gracelyn Smallwood
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Robin Granites (Yuendumu)
Bertha Nakamarra Spencer (Hidden Valley Town Camp)
Michael Thompson (President, NTEU USYD Branch)
Rex Granites Japanangka (Yuendumu)
Caril Conners aka C Saville (Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council member)
Kerree Parter (Regional Network Programs Officer, DEWHA, Rockhampton ICC)
Rebecca Saville (Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council member)
Deborah Ruiz Wall
Daniel John Peterson
Matthew Maurer (LLB)
Irene Doutney (Greens Councillor, City of Sydney)
Genevieve Kelly (Secretary NSW NTEU)
Terry Mason (Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Education, University of Western Sydney)
Fiona McAllan (Macquarie University)
Dr. Stephen Meredith (Psychologist)
Mat Ward (Journalist)
Dr. Vek Lewis (Lecturer in Latin American Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney)
Michael Mardel
Laddie Timbery (Laddie Timbery’s Aboriginal Arts & Crafts)
Dr. Jackie Huggins (Deputy Director, ATSIS, University of Queensland)
Mathew Poll (Artistic Director, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative)
Lorraine McGee Sippel (Yorta Yorta, author)
Kev Carmody (Indigenous songwriter and singer)
Uncle Cecil Bowden (Wiradjuri)
Djon Mundine (Indigenous Arts Curator, Campbelltown)
Kaye Mundine (Aboriginal Actionist)
Ray Kelly (Dhangatti and Nganiawan, author)
Mary Stewart
Tony Albert (Brisbane-based visual artist)
Carol Dillon
Senator Rachel Siewert (Australian Greens Senator for WA Indigenous Rights Spokesperson)
Senator Bob Brown (Australian Greens)
Dr. Barbara Baird
Maureen Magee (Coordinator CRED)
Kerry Andersen (Darug)
Cathy Bloch
Vicki Grieves (ARC Indigenous Research Fellow, The University of Sydney)
Aedenn and Irene Rowan
Bejam Kunmunara Jarlow Nunukel Kabool (son of Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal)

To support the Canberra protest, please E-mail: stoptheintervention@gmail.com
or call 0401 165 431 for more information, to donate, or to book on busses to Canberra.

 

******************************************************************************

Thanks for showing your support for Human Rights!

Many thanks to those who were able to come to our protest marking Human Rights Day on:

Date:        Saturday, 13 December 2008 at 10 a.m.
Location:  The Block, Redfern (opposite Redfern Station)

Speakers:

Uncle Roy 'Dootch' Kennedy, Illawarra Local Aboriginal Land Council

Ben Cruse, Cultural Heritage Officer, Eden

Nicole Watson, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS

John Kaye, Greens MP

Malcolm Tulloch, Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (NSW Branch)

George Newhouse

 

To view photos from the protest, please visit: http://stoptheintervention.org/gallery/human-rights-day-rally-13-12-2008/

 

Human Rights Day Statement

Please circulate and endorse

Aboriginal Australia Demands Justice Re-instate the Racial Discrimination Act;
Repeal the Intervention laws

In March this year, Human Rights Commissioner, Tom Calma said, "The most revealing indicator that the NT intervention was not consistent with human rights principles was the provision at the centre of the legislative machinery used to support the intervention, namely suspending the operation of Racial Discrimination Act."

Yet the Rudd government says the Racial Discrimination Act will remain suspended and a blanket welfare quarantine from which there is no appeal will be maintained for at least the next year.

Under the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), leases and government business managers have been imposed on prescribed communities. Overcrowding, lack of basic infrastructure, health and education services, which have for decades shamed successive Australian governments, are now being used by government bureaucrats to force communities to relinquish even more control of their land.

The only houses built in twelve months of the Intervention have been for the business managers many of which are unoccupied. 'Prescribed' communities have been offered millions in housing only if they lease their land to the government for 40, 60 or even 90 years.

Programs empowering local communities to deal with issues of alcohol abuse, domestic violence and education, have been discarded as the NTER has taken bureaucratic control. The recommendations of the "Little Children Are Sacred" report are being ignored.

The NT Intervention is based on Racial Discrimination:

An Intervention that relies on the suspension of the very Act designed to protect people from racism, makes a mockery of any claim that it is for the benefit of Aboriginal people.

That the Rudd Labor government says it will re-instate the RDA next year is an admission that it is currently violating the human rights of Aboriginal people.

Welfare rights are non-negotiable:

The Intervention represents a wholesale attack on Australia's commitment to universal social security rights. "Income management" means Aboriginal people in affected communities cannot access welfare payments in cash like non-Aboriginal Australians. Half of their payments are issued in gift-vouchers, or store cards which control where people shop and what they are able to buy. Some communities literally rely on the uncertain delivery of food parcels. In other places people can no longer budget, and have no money to attend funerals, ceremonies, or even buy Christmas presents.

Self-determination - Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs:

"For old people the intervention is bringing up bad memories of the past, the old days, the ration days, the dog tag days and the mission days" (Women's statement from the inaugural Prescribed Area People's Alliance, September 29 2008).

The NT Intervention has seen government take control of the prescribed communities. The Federal government now dictates which communities will get basic housing, and which will be left with appalling overcrowding, which stores will thrive, and which will be forced to fold. It has raised the prospect of communities declared to be "unviable" being denied funding and basic welfare rights.

It is clear that the 12 months the Rudd Government plans to continue current Intervention policies will be used to ensure government control of the communities in future decades.

But communities are standing strong against government control: "Our laws don't change.  White people are changing their law all the time. We have been practicing our culture for thousands and thousands of generations. We want to strongly maintain and practice our culture.  We want to stay in our communities and pass on traditional knowledge to the future generations (Women's statement from the inaugural Prescribed Area People's Alliance, September 29 2008).

Never Again

In February 2008, Prime Minister Rudd said "Sorry" on behalf of the Australian Parliament: "We today take this first step by acknowledging the past and laying claim to a future that embraces all Australians. A future where this Parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again".

But injustices are happening now in the name of the NT Intervention. The paternalism that created "the gap" between the lives of the rest of Australia and the appalling living conditions for Aboriginal people across the country, is alive and well.

The assimilation policies that resulted in the Stolen Generations are being imposed on new generations of Aboriginal children who are forced to leave their homelands to access basic education and any prospect of future employment.

The solution to the poverty and disadvantage of Aboriginal communities begins with self-determination - allowing effected communities to decide what programs are needed and how they will be implemented.

The Labor government's own NTER Review (14 October 2008) stated, "...addressing specific concerns of Aboriginal communities does not require the exclusion of fundamental human rights such as the Racial Discrimination Act."

A continuation of these Intervention policies is not acceptable to the prescribed Aboriginal communities who have had their rights suspended since June 2007, and it is not acceptable to an Australian community committed to human rights.

We therefore call on the Rudd Government to immediately re-instate the Racial Discrimination Act (1975) and to end the NT Intervention policies which remove basic welfare and human rights for Aboriginal people.

- Immediately reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act

- Repeal the NT Intervention laws

- All Intervention funds to be controlled by Aboriginal community organisations

- Protect full welfare rights for all people

- Immediately sign the International Declaration on Indigenous Peoples

Endorsed by: :
Prescribed Area People's Alliance (PAPA) meeting, Alice Springs, November 7th 2008
STICS (Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney)
Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning UTS
Mark McMillan LLB GDLP LLM Senior researcher
Alison Vivian BSC Dip Ed LLB LLM
Women's Reconciliation Network NSW
The Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education
Gordon & Elaine Syron, The Keeping Place/Black Fella's Dreaming Museum
Jeff McMullen, Journalist, author, film maker CEO Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth
Illawarra Local Aboriginal Land Council
NSW Reconciliation Council
Tribal Warrior Association
Dr. Susan Greer
NSW Aboriginal Land Council
South Sydney Greens
Medical Association for the Prevention of War, NT Branch
QUT Student Guild
Just Rights Queensland
Nala Mansell-McKenna, State Secretary, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
WGAR (Working Group for Aboriginal Rights) Canberra
Patrick Byrt, Chairperson SA 2008 International Human Rights Day Committee
ANTaR Victoria
ANTaR NSW
ANTaR SA
Roma Mitchell Human Rights Volunteer Service, Roma Mitchell Community Legal Centre Inc
Chris Barry
Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition
National Indigenous Alliance for Self Determination (Victoria)
Maritime Union of Australia, NSW Branch
Nicole Watson, Lawyer, Jumbanna Indigenous House of Learning
Waratah Rose Gillespie
Vanessa Barbay
Senator Rachel Siewert, Federal Greens spokesperson on Indigenous issues
Giz Watson, Greens MLC Member for North Metropolitan Region, Western Australia
Professor Mick Dodson, Director ANU Centre for Indigenous Studies, Community Member (Pacific) UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
George Newhouse, B.Com, LL.B, Human Rights Lawyer representing the Prescribed Area People's Alliance in the United Nations
Dr. Gertrude Stotz, Anthropologist
Port Phillip Citizens for Reconciliation Inc.
Mat Ward, journalist
Blue Mountains ANTaR
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Adelaide Local Meeting
Women for Wik
Rosie Scott
Reconciliation for Western Sydney
ANTaR Inner West
Eileen Cummings, Bulman and Ngkurr Communities, Former Policy Advisor to the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory on Aboriginal and Women's Affairs
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR)
National Indigenous Times (NIT)
Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (NSW Branch)
NSW Young Labor Left
NSW Young Labor
Ann Rees and Roger Keyes
Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation
Dr. Stephen Meredith, Psychologist
Reconciliation Victoria
Friends of the Earth Australia
Former Australian Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett
Blue Mountains People for Reconciliation
Matthew Maurer LLB
South Sydney Greens
Irene Doutney, Greens Councillor, City of Sydney
Cathy Bloch
Lane Cove Residents for Reconciliation
Northern Sydney Region Reconciliation Group
Dick Williams, State Secretary of the ETU, Qld and NT Branch
Narelle Hennessy
FBEU (Fire Brigade Employees Union)
Lee Rhiannon
Caroline Le Couteur MLA, ACT Greens Member for Molonglo
Daniel John Peterson
Redfern Residents for Reconciliation
Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA)
SUPRA
National Welfare Rights Network
Welfare Rights NSW
Intervention Rollback Action Group, Mparntwe-Alice Springs
Senator Bob Brown, the Greens
Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser, AC CH
The Aboriginal Support Group, Manly Warringah Pittwater
Fiona McAllan, Macquarie University
Michael Mardel.

 

To add your endorsement please Email: stoptheintervention@gmail.com

or call 0449 646 593

 

National Actions for International Human Rights Day 2008:

Alice Springs: Rally Saturday 13th December 4pm. Call Barb: 0401291166

Sydney: Rally Saturday 13th December 10am, the Block, Redfern Call Monique: 0415410558

Brisbane: Rally Saturday 13th December Queens Park 2pm. Call Rob:0424265730

Melbourne: TBA email freelexwotton@gmail.com for info

Wollongong: TBA call Dootch: 0431184494