ANTaR Employment and Economic Development
Budget Blues and what's not in the news
This week we had Budget night, with the anticipated cash splurge which is expected to set the Government up for re-election in the next 12-months.
Paul Wright
The Cashless Debit Card: An exercise in Australia’s ongoing colonisation of First Nations people
There is limited evidence of the Cashless Debit Card’s (CDC) effectiveness and mounting evidence of its harmful impacts. Nevertheless, the Federal Government has extended and expanded trials again and again since they were first announced in 2016.
Penny Cummins
Misery profits: Woolworths’ selective listening on a new mega alcohol supermarket in Darwin
The decision in recent days by the Northern Territory’s Liquor Licensing Director to green light the construction of a huge Woolworths owned alcohol retail store within walking distance of Aboriginal communities, is an outrage on every level.
Paul Wright and Eddie Cubillo
Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women's Voices): Securing Our Rights, Securing Our Future
At the launch of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) report in Broome last week, the Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM observed that that the release of the report marked a line in the sand for our First Nations women and girls, and for all Australians. 
June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
Who knows best about the Cashless Debit Card?
In the next two weeks the Federal Senate will be voting on a Bill to indefinitely extend the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) program and apply it to the entire Northern Territory and Cape York.
Janet Hunt
