The intervention : an anthology / edited by Rosie Scott and Anita Heiss.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270)

Rosie Scott / Introduction -- Anita Heiss / We Are Many Nations But We Are One People -- Rosalie Kunoth-Monks / Reflections on the Intervention – quotes between 2012 and 2014 -- Pat Anderson / The Intervention: Some Reflections -- Rachel Willika / A statement -- Djiniyini Gondarra / Quotes from Speeches on the Intervention -- P.M. Newton 567,000 kms Driven -- Christine Olsen / Crossing the Gap -- Yingiya Mark Guyula / A Statement June 2011 -- Larissa Behrendt / The Dialogue of Intervention -- Natalie Harkin / Intervention: A poem -- Djiniyini Gondarra / spokesperson, Response to the Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s announcement of a Second Intervention in the Northern Territory 26th June 2011 -- Debra Adelaide / Welcome to Country -- Nicole Watson / From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures – Where is the Evidence that Aboriginal Women are Leading Self-Determining Lives? -- John Leemans / spokesperson Media Release from the Gurindji 28th July 2011 -- Melissa Lucashenko / What I Heard about the Intervention -- Lionel Fogarty / Philosophies Exterminated: A poem -- Djiniyini Gondarra / spokesperson for the independently established Yolŋuw Makarr Dhuni (Yolngu Nations Assembly) Statement 2011 -- Jeff McMullen / Rolling Thunder: Voices against Oppression -- Northern Territory Elders and Community Representatives / Press Conference Statement Melbourne 4th November, 2011 -- Bruce Pascoe / Bread -- Ali Cobby Eckermann / Four poems: Intervention Payback -- Unearth -- A Parable -- 40 Year Leases -- John Leemans / spokesperson Gurindji people at Daguragu and Kalkaringi, Stronger Futures 11th June 2012 -- Brenda L. Croft / Signs of the Times -- Rodney Hall / The Constitutional Connection -- Yolgnu Statement / 24th June 2012 -- Samuel Wagan Watson / Intervention rouge -- Yolgnu Nations Assembly and The Alywaar Nation / Media release 27th June 2012 -- Eva Cox / The Intervention: An overview of bad policy and bad politics -- Deni Langman / A letter to the Politicians of Australia who will Debate the Stronger Futures Legislation, June 2012 -- Arnold Zable / Where We Meet -- Yalmay Yunupingu / Human Rights and Social Justice Award. Excerpts from her keynote speech 24 June 2014 -- Alexis Wright / Be Careful about Playing with the Path of Least Resistance a short story -- Yolgnu Makarr Dhuni / Stronger Futures October 2013.

In this historic anthology, award-winning writers Rosie Scott and Dr Anita Heiss have gathered together the work of twenty of Australian's finest writers both Indigenous and non-Indigenous together with powerful statements from Northern Territory Elders to bring a new dimension and urgency to an issue that has remained largely outside the public radar. One of the most invasive, puzzling and unprecedented actions by a government in Australian history -- the 2007 NT Intervention by the Howard Government- has resulted in an ongoing and flagrant breach of human rights. The introduction of this racist legislation has never been fully debated nationally nor has there ever been any significant consultation with the Indigenous communities most affected. In compelling fiction, memoir, essays, poetry and communiqués, the dramatic story of the Intervention and the despair, anguish and anger of the First Nations people of the Territory comes alive. The Intervention: an Anthology is an extraordinary document -- deeply moving, impassioned, spiritual, angry and authoritative -- it's essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this passionate opposition.