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In June 2007, the then Federal Government announced a controversial intervention in Northern Territory Indigenous communities in response to report on child abuse. Key measures of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) have included income management, alcohol bans and a range of control measures which reduced Aboriginal control over community governance, decision-making and service delivery.
Under the Labor Government’s Stronger Futures legislation of June 2012, many of the NTER measures were extended for a further 10 years, against opposition of Aboriginal communities and human rights groups and statistical indications that the Intervention was failing to meet its objectives.
http://antar.org.au/campaigns/northern-territory-communities
