The NT is going down the tube. We at the Trust aim to do something about it. It is up to you help us complete our mission to clean up the NT one arsehole at a time. Contact us at transparentnt@disroot.org
Batchelor Institute should be closed permanently. It would relatively simple to make amendments to the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education Act 1999 (NT) and give all the assets to the Charles Darwin University.
The time for Nugget Coombs era noble savage experiments in educational apartheid to end.
At least South Africa was honest about their apartheid system. The Northern Territory has a form of apartheid. Every person is racially profiled as being non-Aboriginal or Aboriginal or ATSI or indigenous (various labels may be used). There is a special measures policy for government jobs further dividing the population.
Dividing a population does not create unity.
What we have is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Quality services are not delivered when you have people appointed based upon race; fact is the Northern Territory Government has created a “monster” that has everyone tiptoeing around. “What are we going to do? They are not performing and they got their job by special measures!”