Something is seriously wrong in the Northern Territory
One by one, the Aboriginal leaders, organisations and watchdogs the Northern Territory government is supposed to work with are walking away.
The Children’s Commissioner has resigned. An Indigenous MP has left parliament after more than a decade. And now almost the entire Aboriginal side of the Territory’s Justice Policy Partnership has suspended its involvement.
They’re all making a remarkably similar complaint – that the government isn’t listening and that the structures supposedly designed to give Aboriginal people a say have become meaningless.
Today, National Indigenous Times journalist Dechlan Brennan discusses how relations got this bad – and whether a government can tackle the Territory’s enormous problems if the people most affected no longer believe there’s any point in sitting at the table.
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