Seeing the Northern Territory intervention from the inside

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In 2007, the Federal Government launched the Northern Territory Emergency Response, also known as the Intervention. It included restrictions on alcohol, changes to welfare payments, acquisitions of parcels of lands, education, employment and health initiatives, restrictions on pornography and other measures.

When Mary Keaney saw the confronting images on the news, she uprooted her life to travel there and work for the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service.

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