Northern Territory social crisis

Revelations that there are deep social problems in many of our Indigenous communities are not new. Indigenous leaders have been warning for the past decade that a social crisis would emerge if federal, state and territory governments failed to provide Indigenous Australians with the opportunities and basic services other Australians take for granted: policing, primary health care, education, housing and real employment opportunities. We are now reaping what we have sown through the failure of successive governments to address the root causes of this crisis.
Now that this issue is finally on the national political agenda, immediate action is required to protect communities – and children in particular – while also addressing the underlying factors contributing to the cycle of abuse.
The Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the Northern Territory (CAO) has come up with such a plan and we are asking the federal and Northern Territory governments to adopt this plan as a matter of urgency.

Actions you can take
This issue is more important than party politics. We need a bi-partisan and long term approach to this issue:
Write to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs expressing your support for the CAO plan and asking the Government to work with Aboriginal communities and organisations in the Northern Territory to implement this plan.
Write to the Opposition leader and Shadow spokesperson expressing your support for the CAO plan and asking the Government to work with Aboriginal communities and organisations in the Northern Territory to implement this plan.