Opinion

NIT FOURMS: A lost year ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: The Northern Territory intervention’s primary accomplishment has been to demonise Aboriginal people and diminish Australia, writes JEFF McMULLEN*.

EDITORIAL OPINION: We’re so close yet so far ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: You can’t help what you are. And one year on, the Northern Territory intervention remains the best act of racism by the worst leader this nation has ever seen.

Reality check a year on ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: The anniversary of the NT emergency intervention is a sobering reality check, writes Prof LARISSA BEHRENDT*.

RINGY'S RAMBLINGS: A not so happy NT anniversary ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: A year on from the Federal Government’s declaration of virtual martial law across a large chunk of the Northern Territory, GRAHAM RING pauses to survey the damage.

THE BOX SEAT: Oh my Koch: A taste of Oz Blotto ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: BRIAN JOHNSTONE* thinks The Australian newspaper doth protest too much... and perhaps drinks too much as well.

BLACKCURRENT: Too much Brough is never enough ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: AMY McQUIRE* attempts to break the hold Mal Brough has on white Australia... but she’s not confident the broader community is ready to give up its white knight.

NIT FORUMS: Sunshine state land reforms a mixed bag ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: NICOLE WATSON* looks at the legislation passed in Queensland recently that allows for the compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal land.

YOUR SAY: In common with Zimbabwe ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: At the same time as Australians feel good about the Commonwealth’s stand over tactics in the Northern Territory there is open condemnation of similar tactics by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, writes MICHAEL MANSELL.

YOUR SAY: Appalled by Four Corners ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: I was appalled by the tone set by the reporter, Sarah Feguson, in [last week’s] Four Corners (Monday, June 16 ‘Educating Kimberley’) declaiming and diminishing the strengths of the Tiwi Islanders, framing the program again from a non-Indigenous perspective, albeit some token quotes, and belittling the community, writes REBECCA HARCOURT.

YOUR SAY: Four Corners program disappoints ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: We watched the Four Corners program on [Monday] (‘Educating Kimberley’) with growing interest, writes L NEALE, H BISHOP and S REYS.

YOUR SAY: Support but don’t lead ISSUE 156, June 26, 2008: Re the new Aboriginal Rights Coalition, writes TIM ANDERSON.