The endless Intervention: First Nations speak out!
Event Information
About this event
As the NT Intervention - an "Emergency Response" - enters its 15th and hopefully last year it is time to look back at its legacy, which lessons can be learnt and most importantly where to in the future.
Now is the time for in-depth discussion from a range of eminent speakers whose contribution will be profound. It will help raise awareness, so that future decisions made regarding First Nations Peoples in the Northern Territory will have the full free, prior and informed consent of the people affected and are consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
There will be three sessions on Sunday, 20 June:
On Monday, 21th June the conference will end with looking at the way forward:
The Speakers will be announced soon. All sessions on Sunday will be moderated by Professor Larissa Behrendt OA.
Recordings of the event are now available at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWp_d2_EP9cqHEMgiQPX9B6iwYmy_FOXD
Join this free online event at https://amnestyau.zoom.us/j/99176238579
Meeting ID: 991 7623 8579, for phone access please see here
(Same Link / Meeting ID for Sunday and Monday)
For important background information, see the open letter sent to the Hon. Ken Wyatt AM MP by the Intervention Rollback Action Group in 2019, Stand Up 2017 report from the Alice Springs conference, Statement of Eminent Australians and Statement by the Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation.
This will be a powerful landmark conference organised by the Intervention Rollback Action Group (IRAG) Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and Stop The Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) with support of 'concerned Australians' (cA).