Aboriginal rights under attack - preview
Alan Clayton, a lawyer from Australia YM, reports on the legislation
On the afternoon of Friday 17 August 2007, an extraordinary suite of legislation passed through the Australian Parliament Five bills, over 500 pages of detail in total, constitute possibly the most wide-ranging single set of initiatives with regard to the Aboriginal population in a particular Australian state or territory in course of the nearly 220 years of white settlement
The justification for this set of measures was the extent of actual and perceived child sexual abuse in a number of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory This issue was the subject of a detailed report from the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse This was a very comprehensive inquiry involving direct engagement with forty-five remote aboriginal communities, sixty-five written submissions and 262 agencies and organisations This Board of Inquiry was headed by Pat Anderson, a highly respected indigenous woman with acknowledged expertise in health matters, and Rex Wild QC It produced a very wide ranging report, the Little Children are Sacred Report which included 97 recommendations
Alan Clayton
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