The Australian National University
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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The 'National Emergency' and Land Rights Reform: Separating fact from fiction

Topical Issue 12 / 2007

August 2007 -

This report, commissioned by Oxfam Australia, provides compelling evidence to argue that the proposed changes to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 have no connection with the incidence of child sexual abuse; are likely to jeopardize the effectiveness of the Government's emergency response in the Northern Territory, and are detrimental to the development of Aboriginal communities.