Northern Territory Emergency Response - What was the emergency?

For Indigenous Australians as well as many other minority groups, there is great frustration when we witness the nation’s best journalists fail to ask the begging question. Groups who are poorly represented in society don’t just lack the voice to answer questions, but also to ask them. As citizens, the contract that we have with the fourth estate (the media) is that they will give voice to those issues that cry out for answers. Unfortunately, the truth of the fourth estate is that their primary responsibility is to generate income, rather than to seek the truth.

Through this edition of Dialog, Dr. Louis Peachey, founding president of Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA), Former Medical Educator at MICRRH, and currently a Senior Medical Officer at Atherton District Hospital wishes to ask two simple questions about the Northern Territory Emergency Response of 2007.



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