Federal political oppression of Aboriginal people

Federal political oppression of Aboriginal people

The Children are sacred

Dear Kerry O'Brien and 7.30 researchers,

I have just returned from the Northern Territory. I want John Howard to explain why house to house raids without warrants are being conducted by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in all of the Alice Springs town camps.

I also want to know, why at least two of the senior women who toured major cities speaking out against a uranium waste dump on their traditional lands have been raided by the AFP on warrants issued by a Federal Magistrate in Canberra - their furniture slashed with knives, belongings damaged, laptops and mobile phones seized, and phones tapped.

I was told by one of the women that the warrant gave 12 hours access to her home, and that she was told that the measures were justified because of the security crackdown for APEC ministers. One of those women is an elderly grandmother.

I have also been told by town camp residents that the AFP has set up surveillance on all households in the town camps, and have photographed without consent, every Aboriginal child in those town camps.

In the 1990s the AFP were successfully taken to court for exactly the same violations in Redfern.

Please report on this disgraceful conduct, and pursue a full explanation from the Howard Government.

regards,

Jennifer Martiniello
Member, Advisory Board
Australian Centre for Indigenous History,
Australian National University

Aroha Groves

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See also

by Jennifer Martiniello

Urgent Action - Family Impact Assessment on NT Intervention

- Aug 16, 2007

More @

http://www.pariahnt.org/news/content/view/117/1/

National Aboriginal Alliance - Aims and Darwin meeting

The National Aboriginal Alliance

Thursday 1st November : Public meeting

The National Aboriginal Alliance will stage a public meeting in Darwin to discuss the impacts and implications of the Federal Intervention in NT communities

6:30pm at Mal Nairn Auditorium

Charles Darwin University

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"The group urged Aboriginal peoples and communities to actively but peacefully resist the intervention"

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