Film "The Intervention- Katherine, NT" and launch of Indigenous Rights Charter

This year, the Indigenous Doctors' Association and former Family Court judge Alastair Nicholson have condemned the Rudd government's continuation of Howard's policy of "intervening" into Aboriginal communities. This "intervention" has entailed the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act and introduction of 'welfare quarantining'.

The Intervention: Katherine NT is a 2008 documentary about the impact, one year on, of this intervention in the Northern Territory. We are also launching the Socialist Alliance Indigenous Rights Charter. 

Speakers will discuss recent developments in the campaign to stop the intervention:
- Sharon Firebrace, Black Rights Action Group
- Mick Bull, worked on the trade union brigade in soildarity with the Alyawarr people in Central Australia in February this year and an organiser with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union

Hosted by Socialist Alliance candidate for Wills, Trent Hawkins.

Thursday 29 April, 6.30pm
Clarrie Wohlers Centre, 51 Albert Street, Brunswick

(How to get there: Tram no. 1 or 8 along Lygon Street, get off at Albert Street and walk eastwards, the centre is beside Fleming Park). Info: 96398622 or 0407 023 672.