Keywords: Nt Intervention
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AUSTRALIA
We have learned that the damage caused by sexual abuse often continues for decades and into future generations. We can hope that Government interventions will make a long-term difference, but such complex issues cannot be reduced to a simple absolute: ‘the child must come first’.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 July 2007
Lucky Miles is an outrageous buddy comedy set in 1990 in the Western Australian wilderness, with echoes of September 11, border security, and the totalitarian Indigenous intervention. This topicality borders on prophetic, as the film was conceived seven years ago.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jonathan Hill
- 11 July 2007
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How does compulsory acquisition of land help abused children? It doesn’t. Public support for the Federal Government’s radical intervention sadly reflects the ignorance of white Australians.
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AUSTRALIA
- Daniel Baldino
- 18 May 2007
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The notion of preventing Islamic influence has strong echoes of the simple Cold War ‘domino theory’. This powerful metaphor and enemy image, popular in the 1950s and 1960s and used to justify US military intervention in Southeast Asia, was later widely criticised for its undeveloped and unstructured generalisations about political systems that are quite different.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kirsty Ruddock
- 29 April 2006
Is Australia’s intervention in the Solomon Islands healing the wounds of the tension?
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