Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin will be at Readings Bookstore promoting Russell Skelton's new book 'King Brown Country'. Macklin has spun many lies and a great deal of deception surrounding the NT Intervention. No doubt, she will be using Skelton's book about Papunya as another opportunity to justify this racist policy.
MAIC will be setting up an information stall outside the shop and standing in opposition to the racis...m of the government.
There has never been any decent consultation with Aboriginal communities about the Intervention, yet Macklin is free to tell her racist lies all around the country at events such as these.We will be distributing information that Macklin does not want you to see. This is the real testimonies and opinions of Aboriginal people who have been living under the NT Intervention.
Bring your placards, banners and loud voices. Stop the racist NT Intervention!
Print a flyer:
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More information about the event from the Readings website:
Readings bookshop EVENT | Tuesday 30 November 2010 at 6:30pm
Russell Skelton in conversation with Jenny Macklin
Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053
Set with the backdrop of Papunya, a Northern Territory Aboriginal community whose history showed so much promise but whose dysfunction is now more prominent that its famous artwork, King Brown Country is a book that has to be published. It goes to the core of Indigenous issues today to expose unmitigated misery, shocking levels of domestic violence and sex abuse and extreme alcohol and substance dependency. But above all, it reveals how a powerful fiefdom was allowed to rule unchallenged and unchecked to the great detriment of a once secure community and explains why the intervention was necessary, and why it may not work. King Brown Country is a powerful and shaming portrait of a community in crisis.
Russell will be in conversation with Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin.
Free, but please book on 9347 6633.
www.readings.com.au/event/russell-skelton-in-conversation-with-jenny-mac...