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Australia : Tracking the Intervention
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Shocked at the extent of child abuse in Aboriginal communities, the Australian government in 2007 declared the situation a national emergency and ordered the military to intervene. Control was seiz...
Shocked at the extent of child abuse in Aboriginal communities, the Australian government in 2007 declared the situation a national emergency and ordered the military to intervene. Control was seized of 73 communities that had been under indigenous rule, bans on alcohol and pornography put in place, and a complex system of welfare payments was instituted that sometimes left recipients without funds - and with their self-esteem in tatters. This program investigates the Australian government's controversial - some say racist - intervention in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal communities, considering whether cultural factors have doomed the action to failure.
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- Creator
- Journeyman Pictures (Firm)
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2012], c2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (44 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn841533075
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on December 14, 2012.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Assessing Federal Intervention in Indigenous Areas (1:32) -- Imposing Public Welfare (1:11) -- Intervening in an Aboriginal Settlement (1:20) -- Resistance to Australian Medical Interference (1:40) -- Inefficient Policy in Practice (2:53) -- Addressing Child Sexual Abuse from within the Community (2:32) -- Raising Aboriginal Community Standards (1:26) -- Federal-Local Disconnect (1:45) -- Top Down Approach to Indigenous Issues (2:20) -- Taking Control of an Indigenous Population (1:57) -- Debate over Indigenous Employment Programs (2:23) -- Indigenous Employment Threatened (1:45) -- Debate over Assimilation (1:31) -- Protesting a Government Take Over (2:44) -- A Community Turned Upside Down (2:01) -- Welfare Quarantining in Aputula (2:58) -- Working for Wages (2:54) -- Aputula's Undervalued Men (2:11) -- Counterproductive Intervention on Child Abuse (1:42) -- Poor Policy Implementation (2:17) -- Waiting for Law Enforcement (1:35) -- Conclusions on the Aboriginal Child Abuse Intervention (0:46)