An issue in equity: Is it fair and just that there are 230,000 second-class citizens in the Northern Territory?
Details:
Title
An issue in equity: Is it fair and just that there are 230,000 second-class citizens in the Northern Territory?,
Other title
Maurice Blackburn Lecture,
Creator
Martin, Clare Majella,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Maurice Blackburn Oration - (19th) 2012,
Date
2012,
Abstract
"An Issue of Equity: Is it fair and just that Northern Territorians, all 230,000 of us, are second-class citizens? And if, as I contend, we are second-class citizens, what does that actually mean? How have those lesser rights affected the course of Territory history; what affect has there been on our political institutions, our political effectiveness and engagement and importantly what effect on our community, especially Aboriginal Territorians who make up a third of our population?" - page 1,
Notes
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),
Table of contents
So some context about the Northern Territory to start -- So what does second class actually mean? -- Powers not transferred by the Commonwealth -- Getting on with the job of government -- The Commonwealth disallows legislation: Rights of the Terminally Ill -- Mandatory Sentencing for Property Crime -- A nuclear waste facility -- John Howard’s Emergency Response 2007 -- No fairness in these measures income quarantining -- Township leasing -- New alcohol restrictions -- The emergency response stereotyping -- The end of the short history.,
Language
English,
Subject
Government policy,
Politics and Government,
Equality,
Aboriginal Australians,