SPECIAL ISSUE Journal of Indigenous Policy
ARGUING THE INTERVENTION
Special Issue: Sept 2013 by Jon Altman
For over three decades, Professor Jon Altman has been one of the leading scholars on Indigenous research with a particular focus on Indigenous economies. Through the period since the Northern Territory intervention in 2007 until the present day, his work has taken on increasing significance. In a period in which government policy continues to be shaped by ideological rather than by evidence and research, Jon Altman, like many other researchers in the field, found his expertise and work increasingly sidelined.
As the thread of polemic that weaves through these articles shows, Altman’s insights, founded in his research and his experience within the very communities affected, has provided sound critique of the assumptions, impacts and unintended consequences of government dogmatism. His work has been ignored to the detriment of the people who have been subject to these policies.
Professor Altman has argued that the rhetoric of government, it’s insincere and is ingenuous processes of consultation, and the consensus between the two major political parties and the conservative political press has become the dominant, unquestioned line. But underneath that ideological consensus are approaches that ignore the failures on the ground that Altman reveals and documents. This Special Issue presents these arguments.
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