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Social Justice Annual Lecture
'The Intervention': Some Reflections Two Years On
June 2009 marked the second anniversary of the ‘National emergency response to protect Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory’, announced by the former Federal Government in 2007. As part of SJI's Annual Lecture Program, Pat Anderson, the co-author of the Little Children are Sacred report into abuse of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory, was invited to reflect on the Inquiry that led to the report; and the intervention that used it as a justification, but failed to implement its recommendations.
Pat Anderson explores the differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal perceptions of the issue, and argues that effective action to protect and nurture Aboriginal children is undermined when Governments put their own agendas and priorities ahead of the evidence and the lived realities of Aboriginal life.
Slow TV filmed the event which can also be found on their website by following the link Slow TV
Pat Anderson, Social Justice Annual Lecture, SJI, University of Melbourne, June 2009
For more information, contact SJI Director, Dr Jeremy Moss.