INVEST IN ALL COMMUNITIES

DEMAND 2

Abandon the 'hub  towns' model. 

Rapid improvements in education, housing, health and  community services are required wherever Aboriginal people choose to live - in  urban areas, remote communities and on homelands.

References

Speech by Yananymul Mununggurr, CEO of Laynhapuy Homelands Association

A strong speech given in June 2009, two years on from the NT Intervention, analysing federal and NT government policy and putting forward community demands.

http://rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com/statements/#Yanaymul_Working_Future

The Viability of Hub Settlements:

Dr Mark Moran provides a critique of the strategy of "population concentration" being pushed on Aboriginal people by overlapping federal and NT government policies. Published in Dialogue, the Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, number 29, 2010.

http://www.assa.edu.au/publications/dialogue/_pdf/download.php?id=2010_Vol29_No1.pdf

Statement from Dr Gawirrin Gumana AO May 2009:

 "If you don't help our Homelands, and try to starve me from my land, I tell you, you can kill me first"

 http://rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com/statements/#Dr_Gawirrin_Gumana

Working Future: A Critique of Policy by Numbers

Recording of a Seminar given by Will Sanders from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR). Sander's research demonstrates how the 'hub towns' funding model being proposed by the NT government will disadvantage a large number of Aboriginal people living in remote communities.

http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/audio/09/0909_Will-Sanders-Senior-Fellow-CAEPR.php

Homeland Security: Opponents Speak Out

ABC Radio National program National Interest interviewed Jon Altman from CAEPR and Yananymul Mununggur about the "Working Futures" policy in June 2009.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/nationalinterest/stories/2009/2596768.htm

Keeping Homelands Alive

A comprehensive survey of evidence supporting the continued resourcing of dispersed Aboriginal communities including in areas of health, social well-being, land management and economic development.

http://www.clc.org.au/Media/issues/Outstations_briefing_paper.pdf

The First Ever Northern Territory Outstations/Homelands policy

http://caepr.anu.edu.au/system/files/Publications/topical/Topical_Kerins_outstations.pdf 

Sean Kerins from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) provides an analysis of the impact that the NT government's "Working Futures" policy will have, and the response of homelands residents.