The Government are currently conducting consultations on the future of the Northern Territory Intervention. The current Intervention legislation ends in 2012 and so there is a need to decide what happens next. The Government has released a discussion paper which it is using to guide the consultations. There has been much criticism about the consultation process. Issues such as the short length of time, the lack of translators, the fact the discussion paper is written only in English and the fact that the discussion paper does not canvas other issues of importance to communities has caused much concern.

To read some of these concerns click here

This year is the 45th Anniversary of the Wave Hill walk off. Celebrations are being held at Kalkarindji and all are invited. See www.gurindjifreedomday.com for more information.

From their website...

Kalkarindji and Daguragu are on the traditional homelands of the Gurindji people, and these communities are linked to the Malgnin, Mudpurra, Bilinara, Ngarinman and Warlpiri peoples through the historic Walkoff from Wave Hill Station, which was initially established on Gurindji traditional lands in 1883. At the time of the Walkoff, Wave Hill Station had been owned by British Lord Vestey's family since 1914. The Gurindji Walkoff was initiated by Gurindji/ Malgnin leader, Vincent Lingiari, on 23 August 1966 and lasted till 1974, an event which lit the fire that became the national land rights movement.

On 26 August, 1975, then Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam officially handed
back his peoples' traditional lands to Vincent Lingiari in the community of Daguragu. While Vincent and many of his contemporaries have since passed away, elders who participated in this monumental community-driven movement continue to stand strong in their country.
They and their descendants invite you to come and share this anniversary with us, listen to our elders' stories and experiences over the almost four decades since that historic time in the late 1960s, and support us in our aims for our current and future younger generations.

A reminder that the consultations regarding Consitutional recogniton
 of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are well  underway. 

All information, including dates and locations are at the website www.youmeunity.org.au