Comments on: They came, they saw, they left.

By: Living Black on The Intervention « matjjin-nehen

Living Black on The Intervention « matjjin-nehen — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:26:31 +0000

[...] be watching with keen interest, since, having been fortunate enough to witness one such visit last month, I would like to see others’ experience with the fly-in-fly-out bureaucrats. Have [...]

By: Where to now in the Northern Territory » The Bartlett Diaries

Where to now in the Northern Territory » The Bartlett Diaries — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:20:11 +0000

[...] This post reports on a similar visit to Kybrook Farm. « Walk Against Warming – in Brisbane this Saturday | [...]

By: A snag in the plan at Hoyden About Town

A snag in the plan at Hoyden About Town — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:59:34 +0000

[...] other news, mattjin-nehen and Wamut report on two contrasting experiences with the arrival of survey teams on the ground. [...]

By: Jangari

Jangari — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:56:02 +0000

We had three military personnel; one of whom was involved in the meeting, gathering information on housing needs, etc., and the other two as a part of Norforce, there to provide accommodation and transport to the entire survey team (about 8 people in total).

No journalists though. Which is consistent with the media attention that the issue is receiving. Until last week, the ‘indigenous’ news tag on the ABC news website had about 15 articles per day. Now it is back to the baseline of next to nothing.

Frank, the Warlpiri veni, vidi, yanulu was of your coining, I believe. Nice work.

By: Frank Baarda

Frank Baarda — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:23:39 +0000

An aside from Yuendumu:
After the survey team (not the highly touted ‘emergency team’ that got all the headlines) had their public meeting here, my 11 year old grandson went up to one of the two military personnel that came here, and asked: “Where are the others?”. I think he was dissapointed as he’d been hoping for a regiment with tanks, helicopters and blazing bazookas.
I was told that Kintore got eight military personnel on their survey team visit. Does that mean Kintore has four times the sexual abuse problems Yuendumu has? I think more likely they decided to maintain the same Journalist:Soldier ratio for both visits. Media interest had somewhat waned by the time they came here.