ANTaR has today cautiously welcomed improved protections against racial discrimination in the Northern Territory but argues there is a long way to go in the transition from intervention to sustained investment in community development.

First published in The Australian

THE Aboriginal council in charge of Alice Springs' town camps has confirmed the camps' governing bodies will honour an agreement with the federal government to sign long-term leases.

THE Aboriginal council in charge of Alice Springs' town camps has confirmed the camps' governing bodies will honour an agreement with the federal government to sign long-term leases.

Extending income management to all welfare recipients in the Northern Territory will disproportionately and adversely affect Aboriginal people in Northern Territory," said ANTaR National President, Dr Janet Hunt.

“It appears that the mooted idea that compulsory income management could be made a special measure under the Racial Discrimination Act, has been discarded by the Government as indefensible,” says ANTaR National President, Dr Janet Hunt. ANTaR has consistently opposed ideas that income quarantining could be seen as a special measure.