SPECIAL FEATURE: Australian Aborigines at the crossroads*

Horrifying reports of indigenous children suffering at the hands of sexual predators made headlines in June this year after the publication of the Northern Territory report Little Children are Sacred.But when federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, dramatically intervened in the Northern Territory to tackle this evil, along with the associated problems of alcohol and drug addiction endemic in these communities, he was predictably attacked as being “paternalistic” and “culturally ins…

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