aboriginal rights – knitting in the dark

progressiveauspol:

The NT Intervention is a policy that sees 94% of people income managed to be Indigenous. Despite these discrepancies 75% of people who are moved off the income management scheme are non-indigenous. In 2011/12 the income management scheme cost $76 million to implement and resulted in over $88 million being spent on bureaucrats just to control Aboriginal welfare. This is a government that spends $80 million on the surveillance of Indigenous people. It is a system where Aboriginals make up 3% of the population but yet a third of the children taken away from their homes are Aboriginals. Racist policies towards out First Nations people did not end with the Stolen Generation and is alive and well today. (X) (X)