Preface to new edition -- Introduction -- We are many nations but we are one people -- Reflections on the intervention : quotes made between 2011 and 2014 -- The intervention : personal reflections -- A statement, 2 October 2007 -- Quotes from speeches on the intervention -- 567, 000 km driven -- Crossing the gap -- A statement, June 2011 -- The dialogue of intervention -- Intervention : a poem -- Response to the Prime Minister : Julia Gillard's announcement of a second intervention in the Northern Territory, 26 June 2011 -- Welcome to country -- From the Northern Territory emergency response to stronger futures : where is the evidence that Aboriginal women are leading self-determining lives? -- Media release from the Gurindji, 28 July 2011 -- What I have heard about the intervention : trigger warning : rape, paedophilia, racist violence -- Philosophies exterminated -- A spokesperson for the idependently established Yolnuw Makarr Dhuni (Yolngu Nations Assembly), statement 2011 -- Rolling thunder : voices against oppression -- Conference statement, Melbourne, 4 November 2011 -- Bread -- Four poems -- Stronger futures, 11 June 2012 -- Signs of the times -- The constitutional connection -- 24 June 2012 -- Intervention rouge : a poem -- Yolngu Nations Assembly and the Alywaar Nation media release, 27 June 2012 -- Intervention : bad policy and bad politics -- Traditional owner of Uluru : a letter to the politicians of Australia who will debate the stronger futures legislation, June 2012 -- Here is where we meet -- Human rights and social justice award : excerpts from her keynote speech, 24 June 2014 -- Be careful about playing with the path of least resistance -- Stronger futures, October 2013.
Summary:
This book "brings together some of Australia's greatest indigenous and non-indigenous writers and thinkers . . . who analyse, illuminate and voice their anger, disgust and horror at the intervention introduced by the Howard government in 2007. Through fiction, memoir, essays, poetry, speeches and communiqueś, the Intervention brings a new perspective and urgency to one of the most invasive, puzzling and unprecedented actions by a government in Australian history -one that largely remains outside the public radar."--Back cover.
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