It's Black Children Overboard, They Cry At Uluru

AT the red centre of the maelstrom over the Federal Government's intervention in remote Aboriginal communities, about 80 men, women and children sit on plastic chairs in the dust before a whiteboard and a small amplifier, anxious for news of what tomorrow will bring. A letter read to them by the elder Donald Fraser, recounted first in English, then in the Pitjantjatjara tongue, still the first language of the old people, politely advises that a small contingent of federal and Northern Territory ...

'this Is Our Black Children Overboard'

At the red centre of the maelstrom over the Federal Government's intervention into remote Aboriginal communities, about 80 men, women and children sit on plastic chairs in the dust in front of a whiteboard and a small amplifier, anxious for news of what tomorrow will bring.