ABC
October 10, 2011, 12:37 am
•'National shame'
Amnesty International has slammed the 'devastating' conditions Indigenous Australians are forced to live in.
Amnesty International says the Federal Government needs to be internationally shamed into addressing poverty among Indigenous Australians.
Secretary-general Salil Shetty on Saturday toured remote towns in the Northern Territory, including Utopian communities north-east of Alice Springs.
He described the plight of locals as "devastating", saying people there are living in inhumane conditions that are almost third-world.
"I've been to many places in bad shape in Africa, Asia and Latin America, but what makes it stark here is when you remind yourself you're actually in one of the richest countries in the world," he said.
"I can't believe I'm actually in one the richest countries in the world and you have people, Aboriginal communities here who are living in conditions which are really almost inhumane," he said.
A two-bedroom house he saw had 15 people living in it; others had no toilets or showers.
Some had been without electricity and water for months.
Mr Shetty says the Federal Government is contravening its human rights obligations.
He says the community has been stripped of funds that provide basic services, including running water, electricity, and hygiene services.
"I think it's quite shocking that you can have this level of poverty and this level of lack of basic facilities," he said.
"Their housing ... is really not suitable for habitation. They have no power, they have no basic facilities, sanitation, toilets."
He will meet with Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin on Wednesday in Canberra to demand the end of discrimination for homeland people and emergency action to improve housing conditions.
The Utopia region, 260 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs, has about 1,200 residents in 16 different communities.
More than one-third of the NT's Aboriginal population lives in 500 remote homeland communities.
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K-E0
2:42pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
Who is this Mr Shetty & what's his claim to fame? Certainly, I would agree that pinochio's "government" should be shamed internationally (they would already have to be the joke of the world) but not only for indigenous conditions - look what they are doing everywhere & in everything in Australia. Wonder what Mr Shetty's back yard looks like!
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Cash for Comment
02:51pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
It was interesting that the federal government is requiring at least some welfare payments are to be spent on basics in a Sydney suburb as a trial. This idea should be extended to all welfare payments including Aboriginal so that welfare payments are not wasted and children suffer.
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zahoo
02:55pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
maybe if we were not spending so much on economic refugees we could help our own people more.
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Adrian
02:55pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
If indigenous people choose to live in squalor who are we to tell them otherwise ? The word is patronizing.
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Lozza
03:03pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
I would like to know where all the billions of dollars that is given from the governments goes. I dont see much of anything. They still live in squalor, so whats wrong???
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heidi
03:04pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
i dont think that it s at all nasty to tell the truth.this man has no idea what he is on about. another do gooder who has a loud mouth. millions and millions of dollars have been spent trying to fix what is an enormous problem. are they any closer to fixing it than 40 years ago, maybe a bit. but their is no light at the end of this tunnel.until someone can just say where the problems are it will never be fixed either.to many people who try to help are just branded racist by the very...
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Michael
03:08pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
"He says the community has been stripped of funds that provide basic services, including running water, electricity, and hygiene services." I'm sorry, he is familiar with the capitalist system, isn't he? One imagines that in order to become head of a high-profile international NGO, a passing acquaintance with the death of communism would be required. If these people want things, they can get jobs, earn money, and BUY THEM. Just like EVERYONE ELSE. That's what...
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ruffie
03:55pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
cant help the hopeless ,we have better things too worry about than less than 5 percent of the population . cut em off and stop giving them every thing , just spoil t fools the lot of em .
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Jo-Anne
04:57pm Sunday 09th October 2011 EST
Listen and give the Indigenous people what 'they' want and listen to how 'they' want to live their lives with their cultural and individual genes of influence. Do not force White Man's notion of what's considered best for them. Time to give up that old hat of control and manipulation. Give them full legal rights to the land. Let them determine the way in which they need to live and when they make requests for infrastructures or services bridging between worlds...
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Von Koozer
05:16pm Sunday 09th October 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Excuse me Mr Amnesty Man, the Govt is pouring billions into people here for housing. OK it's only 5 star motels for illegal boat people but is in the billions and is being spent. Leave our magnificently performing Govt alone.
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