Why do you think only 2 of the 97 recommendations in the report the government was acting on were addressed. Appendix B: Observations on the Northern Territory Emergency Response in Australia 2010, in the Report by the Special Rapportuer on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous People, James Anaya, 6. Where possible the report provides data for people directly affected by the NTER however, on occasion data refers to the Northern Territory as a whole. Objections to the Intervention were strengthened when it was revealed that in the two years following the Intervention: Although the Intervention formally ended in August 2012, many key components have continued under a policy package known as Building Stronger Futures. It is also important to understand that the NTER is a very complex policy response that has many elements. Many Indigenous people objected to the Intervention, expressing concern that it: In 2010, the United Nations appointed an independent expert to investigate the Intervention. 4. The Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) was announced on 21 July 2007 and has been implemented over the last four years. 30 Years in Review: Indigenous Law Bulletin 1881-2011, 7. The approach taken in the Intervention unfortunately reinforced some of the damaging generational patterns already created by previous policy approaches towards Indigenous Australians, including denying people basic control over their own lives. Given the strong focus of the evaluation on outcomes, the authors include some of Australia’s most prominent analytical organisations. This report assesses outcomes from both the initial phase of the Northern Territory Emergency Response and the redesign reflected in the Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory National Partnership Agreement. Find out more about Noel Pearson's support for the Intervention here. (‘The Northern Territory Intervention – An evaluation’, Dr Stephen Gray, Faculty of Law, Monash University, July 2015). The final report concluded that several aspects of the Intervention racially discriminated against Indigenous Australians and violated their basic human rights. What do you think about the idea of certain Australian laws only applying to people of a particular racial background? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website may contain images, voices and names of deceased persons. http://web.archive.org/web/20120317140037/http://www.facs.gov.au/sa/indigenous/p... Northern Territory Emergency Response evaluation report 2011. How would you feel if you were singled out by certain laws on the basis of your race? This report assesses outcomes from both the initial phase of the Northern Territory Emergency Response and the redesign reflected in the Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory National Partnership Agreement. It is not always possible to identify the additional impact of individual measures because so many changes, both NTER and other measures, were introduced at a similar time. 9. In some instances data are presented for remote and very remote parts of the Northern Territory.