IRAG Alice Springs

Redirect funding from punitive welfare controls to community based programs. Lift incomes above the poverty line.

"REBUILDING FROM THE GROUND UP"

ALTERNATIVES TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY INTERVENTION

The NT Intervention has been a disaster for Aboriginal communities. Aboriginal peoples, communities and organisations are outraged by the failures of the NT Intervention and the breaches of human rights.
This statement is putting forward an alternative based on Self Determination and sustainable resourcing for all communtities.Alternatives to Intervention:

DEMAND 1: RESTORE COMMUNITY GOVERANCE

Urgently rebuild Aboriginal community government councils. Restore decision making power and administration of municipal services to these councils.

Transfer all assets seized by the shires to the Aboriginal councils and pay compensation for all other assets sold off by the shires.

Remove Government Business Managers installed by the Intervention.

Repeal Business Management Area Powers which grant the Minister the capacity for total control over the budgets and direction of organisations receiving Commonwealth funding.

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End compulsory 5-year leases over Aboriginal township land taken through the Intervention. Stop pressuring communities to sign extensions on these leases. Lift the requirement that 40-year leases are signed with the government before housing can be built. Rescind all township leases signed since the Intervention began in 2007.