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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Intervention-not-perfect-but-its-better-than-nothing/ The prominence of the story about AFL player Liam Jurrah in the national media was interesting. Yes, here is a man who many in central Australia hold up as a vision of hope and this dream has for the time being been destroyed. But Jurrah, as many have noted, is a man with feet in both worlds. These worlds do not often cross paths in a way that is palatable to white people on the East Coast. One very un-sexy story that doesn’t involve football stars or machetes but is going to have more impact on Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory is the extension of the Intervention. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Intervention-not-perfect-but-its-better-than-nothing/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Intervention-not-perfect-but-its-better-than-nothing/#item8060 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 With Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin in the Northern Territory last week consulting on “what’s next?” for the Northern Territory Emergency Response, it’s timely to throw the concept of ‘exit strategies’ into the mix.  In particular, how do people exit the Government’s income management program and take control of their finances? It’s a very real dilemma for governments at all levels.  Teetotalers and drunks, spenders and savers, good and bad parents - it makes no difference.  If you’re an Aboriginal person receiving welfare payments in the NT, you live under the Emergency Response and half your welfare must be spent on the priority goods like food, clothes, rent and health care.  You can’t use the money for alcohol, tobacco, pornography or gambling – well at least not the quarantined half anyway… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/northern-territory-guilty-by-geography/ With Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin in the Northern Territory last week consulting on “what’s next?” for the Northern Territory Emergency Response, it’s timely to throw the concept of ‘exit strategies’ into the mix.  In particular, how do people exit the Government’s income management program and take control of their finances? It’s a very real dilemma for governments at all levels.  Teetotalers and drunks, spenders and savers, good and bad parents - it makes no difference.  If you’re an Aboriginal person receiving welfare payments in the NT, you live under the Emergency Response and half your welfare must be spent on the priority goods like food, clothes, rent and health care.  You can’t use the money for alcohol, tobacco, pornography or gambling – well at least not the quarantined half anyway… penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/northern-territory-guilty-by-geography/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/northern-territory-guilty-by-geography/#item6280 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 With Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin in the Northern Territory last week consulting on “what’s next?” for the Northern Territory Emergency Response, it’s timely to throw the concept of ‘exit strategies’ into the mix.  In particular, how do people exit the Government’s income management program and take control of their finances? It’s a very real dilemma for governments at all levels.  Teetotalers and drunks, spenders and savers, good and bad parents - it makes no difference.  If you’re an Aboriginal person receiving welfare payments in the NT, you live under the Emergency Response and half your welfare must be spent on the priority goods like food, clothes, rent and health care.  You can’t use the money for alcohol, tobacco, pornography or gambling – well at least not the quarantined half anyway… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/putting-do-gooder-politics-ahead-of-helping-people/ Anthropologist Peter Sutton has a long association with indigenous people. In his new book The Politics of Suffering, he makes an observation that deserves quoting at length: The first consideration must be to focus on those conditions that are conducive to the emotional and physical wellbeing of the unborn, infants, children, adolescents, the elderly, and adult women and men. It is remarkable how many people living in the comfort, affluence and healthy surroundings of Australia’s suburbia have, in the debates over indigenous policy and especially the Intervention, covertly promoted the view that respect of cultural differences and racially defined political autonomy takes precedence over a child’s basic human right to have love, wellbeing and safety. It is as if political feelings and political values are more important than one’s emotional feelings and moral values as fellows of those other human beings in the ghettos. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/putting-do-gooder-politics-ahead-of-helping-people/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/putting-do-gooder-politics-ahead-of-helping-people/#item2505 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 With Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin in the Northern Territory last week consulting on “what’s next?” for the Northern Territory Emergency Response, it’s timely to throw the concept of ‘exit strategies’ into the mix.  In particular, how do people exit the Government’s income management program and take control of their finances? It’s a very real dilemma for governments at all levels.  Teetotalers and drunks, spenders and savers, good and bad parents - it makes no difference.  If you’re an Aboriginal person receiving welfare payments in the NT, you live under the Emergency Response and half your welfare must be spent on the priority goods like food, clothes, rent and health care.  You can’t use the money for alcohol, tobacco, pornography or gambling – well at least not the quarantined half anyway… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/child-abuse-is-still-our-national-shame/ The shocking case last week of a two-year-old Victorian girl being savagely beaten has once again raised the issue of child abuse into the headlines. It has started an important debate about when to remove children from their parents and what constitutes a child at risk. Despite some horrifying high profile cases in recent years, child abuse is a problem that many Australians still think is limited to a certain section of the community. While this view might make it easier for us to sleep at night, it does nothing to protect the more than 30,000 Australian children who were abused or neglected last year. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/child-abuse-is-still-our-national-shame/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/child-abuse-is-still-our-national-shame/#item694 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 With Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin in the Northern Territory last week consulting on “what’s next?” for the Northern Territory Emergency Response, it’s timely to throw the concept of ‘exit strategies’ into the mix.  In particular, how do people exit the Government’s income management program and take control of their finances? It’s a very real dilemma for governments at all levels.  Teetotalers and drunks, spenders and savers, good and bad parents - it makes no difference.  If you’re an Aboriginal person receiving welfare payments in the NT, you live under the Emergency Response and half your welfare must be spent on the priority goods like food, clothes, rent and health care.  You can’t use the money for alcohol, tobacco, pornography or gambling – well at least not the quarantined half anyway…