National Indigenous Policy Reform in the Northern Territory: An Extraordinary Debate for Extraordinary Times

Friday 20 July 2007

Both local and international experts discussed the Federal Government's recently announced reforms which are reshaping Indigenous policy in the Northern Territory. The debates were engaging, challenging and thought-provoking. To learn more, download the presentations and papers delivered for the event.

Presentations

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Download the event program (.pdf).

Introduction by Michael Coggan
ABC newsreader

Intervention from the media's perspective (.mp3, 3MB)


	Associate Professor Tess Lea Co-Director, School for Social and Policy Research, Charles Darwin University Outline of recent changes to Indigenous policy in the Northern Territory (.mp3, 6MB)

	Professor Elizabeth Povinelli A visiting scholar from Columbia University, Professor Povinelli has published a number of books focusing on the impasses within liberal systems of law and value as they meet local Australian Indigenous culture and the effect these impasses have on the development of legal and public culture in Australia. Current debates in terms of neoliberal restructurings of social ethics (.mp3, 21MB) Draft of Elizabeth's presentation (.pdf) Paper: “The Child in the Basement: States of Killing and Letting Die" (.pdf)

	Kim Hill Ministerial Advisor to the Minister for Regional and Economic Development, former ATSIC commissioner 1999 - 2005. Implications of the changes to Indigenous policy in the Northern Territory from three perspectives (.mp3, 9MB)

	Professor Allan Patience Professor of Political Science, Charles Darwin University Contemporary politics of Australian federalism and the radical centralisation of the Howard Government (.mp3, 16MB) PowerPoint Presentation (.pdf)

Questions and Response Audience debate and discussion (.mp3, 17MB)

	Associate Professor Gary Robinson Co-Director, School for Social and Policy Research, Charles Darwin University Can the state sustain what its political leaders start? (.mp3, 15MB) PowerPoint presentation (.pdf)

	Ken Parish Ken Parish is a lecturer of law at Charles Darwin University. He is a former Territory Labor politician, and a lawyer for almost 20 years in a private practice in Darwin Political, legal, constitutional and social policy dimensions of Territory Indigenous affairs (.mp3, 20MB) PowerPoint presentation (.pdf)

Final Questions Audience debate and discussion (.mp3, 18MB)