Ian Anderson compares the federal government's response to the Little Children Are Sacred report with the authors' recommendations.

Through more contemporary demographic analysis, and some minor spatial analysis, the paper also explores the different relationships of these three types of local governments to Indigenous interests. Two important pieces of background information are that roughly one-quarter of the Northern Territory’s population of 200,000 is Aboriginal and that outside the major urban areas this proportion...

The Board of Inquiry was created by the Northern Territory Government in August 2006 to research and report on allegations of sexual abuse of Aboriginal children. The Inquiry was established to find better ways to protect Aboriginal children from sexual abuse. The Inquiry gathered and reviewed a vast amount of information that was shaped into...

This report examines federal implications of statehood for the Northern Territory, including the historical context of the campaign for statehood and recent developments. Committee Chairman, Peter Slipper MP, said that the establishment of the first new state in the constitutional history of Australia is no simple matter. "The prospect of statehood raises a host of...

This chronology starts with the addition of the area that would eventually become the Northern Territory to the Colony of New South Wales in 1825 and concludes with the 2007 report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on statehood matters. It also includes some complementary coverage of relevant electoral...