Don't waste the Territory by 4PR - Voice of the People published on 2021-12-23T01:34:19Z Fracking in the NT and contact tracing are two different things. 4PR – Voice of the People · Covid – Not some casual observation on the NT There are many issues of concern in the NT. Lack of suitable housing, kids being stolen by DOCs and more. But the Centre is not like the eastern seaboard … despite consistent attempts at colonisation by successive governments over many years, that process is not complete because people still have language, they have close clan connections and they still live on their homelands. The Howard government’s intervention was a failure, it did not solve the housing problem or the stolen kids. The aboriginal grandmother who took us over country showed us where government programs had been successful in the past. She says that her grand kids get a far better education than she did. Despite this our friend speaks four languages and is learning a fifth, French! This grandmother used to manage an $11M budget on country but under the intervention she has not been allowed to manage her own money and has been issued a Basics card. Resistance to the mining industry is strong in the NT … not long after our visit Dianne Stokes and her grand daughter Kylie Sambo won a Federal Court case against dumping of uranium waste at Mukaty Station near Tennant Creek In the 1980s Jacqui Katona and Yvonne Margarula stopped uranium mining on their (Mirrar) people’s land at Jabiluka in the NT. What I am saying is the fascists are not in control in the Northern Territory … not yet anyway. Song Kylie Sambo - Mukaty