Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention

· Quarterly Essay Book 30 · Bolinda · Narrated by Peter Byrne
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When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor continue with the intervention? What are the reasons for the social crisis - the neglect and the violence - and how might things be different? Toohey argues that the real issue is not sexual abuse, but rather a more general neglect of children. He criticises the way both white courts and black law have viewed violent crime by Aboriginal men. He examines the permit system and the quarantining of welfare money and argues that due to Labor's changes to these, the intervention is now effectively over - though the crisis persists. In Last Drinks, Paul Toohey offers the definitive account of how the Territory intervention came about and what it has achieved.

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Paul Toohey is chief northern correspondent for the Australian. He was previously a senior writer at the Bulletin. His first book, God’s Little Acre, was published in 1996, followed by Rocky Goes West in 1997. His most recent book is The Killer Within (2007). He has won the Graham Perkin journalist of the year award and a Walkley award for magazine feature writing. He lives in Darwin.

Peter Byrne has narrated many books for Bolinda including biographies, fiction and an extended series of Quarterly Essays. Peter has also narrated a considerable number of non-fiction works focusing on wartime conflicts and the military, encompassing Vietnam, the Middle East and Gallipoli. Peter divides his time between Melbourne and the Goldfields region of central Victoria.

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