INTERVENTION Part four of a Public Forum on the Northern Territory Intervention into Indigenous communities and the Stronger Futures legislation held at Arena Project Space in Fitzroy on Thursday the 21st of June 2012, hosted by Arena Magazine and Arena Journal, supported by concerned Australians. EVENT DESCRIPTION On the five-year anniversary of the NT Intervention and at the beginning of a decade of so-called Stronger Futures, our speakers discussed the scope of the Intervention, what has happened on the ground, and how the Intervention relates to neo-liberal governance and Australia's settler colonial heritage. What are the ways forward? With Gary Foley as chair and speakers including (in order of appearance): Les Malezer, from the Butchulla/Gubbi Gubbi peoples in southeast Queensland and the first elected Co-Chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples; Barbara Shaw, descendant of the Kaytetye, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu people, from Mount Nancy Town Camp, now a prescribed area under the NT Intervention; Professor Jon Altman, ARC Australian Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research; and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Alyawarr/Anmatyerr Elder and ex-mayor of Barkly Shire, from Utopia, now a prescribed area under the NT Intervention.

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