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Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the following measures were announced:

1. widespread alcohol restrictions on Northern Territory Aboriginal land for six months.

2. medical examinations of all Indigenous children in the NT under the age of 16 and medical treatment.

3. quarantine 50 per cent of welfare payments to parents of children in the affected areas for food and essentials.

4. enforce school attendance by linking income support and family assistance payments, parents paying for meals.

5. take control of townships through five year leases to ensure that property and public housing can be improved

6. clean up of communities to make them safer and healthier, through Work for the Dole.

7. scrap the permit system for common areas and road corridors on Aboriginal lands.

8. ban the possession of x-rated pornography in the proscribed areas, check all publicly funded computers

9. increase policing levels..

10. set up an Australian Government sexual abuse reporting desk and appoint managers of all government businesses in all communities….

11. refer to the Australian Crime Commission to ... locate and identify perpetrators in other areas of Australia.

12. The abolition of CDEP in the NT announced 23 July 2007, a month after the other eleven.

Concerns include

media portrayal fuelled by ‘emergency’ intervention (artificially set up by government rather than responses originally requested and recommended) continues to distort and create stereotypes i.e. ‘wash over all Aboriginal people regardless’ ^[3]

the government has employed the much used strategy of creating a distraction, so that big picture problems are not in the forefront of public attention.

a ‘Trojan horse’ is being used to do more than what is being said, for instance taking control of the land. ^[4] ^[5]

The Labor Opposition has supported it, seen by many as an attempt to avoid wedge politics ^[6]

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