José Borghino on Howard

From New Mat­ilda, a bril­liant ana­lysis and most of what I wanted to say about how Howard is manip­u­lat­ing the NT situ­ation polit­ic­ally, but with more facts and ground­ing. Unsur­pris­ing, given who José is. He taught me in my under­gradu­ate degree...

Paternalism, thy name is Howard

I’ve been reluct­ant to com­ment on the Howard gov­ern­ment’s decision to “tackle” child abuse in remote indi­gen­ous com­munit­ies in the North­ern ter­rit­ory of Aus­tralia as I haven’t been there. Part of my hes­it­a­tion is that I do believe there is...