Last drinks : the impact of the Northern Territory intervention / Paul Toohey
- Bib ID:
- 4389967
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Toohey, Paul, 1963-
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Black Inc., 2008
- ii, 141 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781863952156
- Series:
- Quarterly essay (Melbourne, Vic.) ; issue 30. 1832-0953
- Summary:
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When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor continue with the intervention? What are the reasons for the social crisis - the neglect and the violence - and how might things be different? Toohey argues that the real issue is not sexual abuse, but rather a more general neglect of children. He criticises the way both white courts and black law have viewed violent crime by Aboriginal men. He examines the permit system and the quarantining of welfare money and argues that due to Labor's changes to these, the intervention is now effectively over - though the crisis persists. In Last Drinks, Paul Toohey offers the definitive account of how the Territory intervention came about and what it has achieved.
- Partial contents:
- Includes: "Correspondence 'Love & Money' / Sara Dowse, Don Edgar, May Lam, Steve Biddulph, Virginia Haussegger, Julie Stephens, Sushi Das, Natasha Cica, Anne Manne".
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Child welfare
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Australians -- Public welfare -- Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- Northern Territory
- Government policy - Intervention - Emergency response - 2007-2012
- Sex relations - Coercive
- Politics and Government - Politicians
- Children - Abuse and neglect
- Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
- Northern Territory (NT)
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2008
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