{"id":3610,"date":"2007-08-08T00:06:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T00:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/we-need-a-bill-of-rights\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","slug":"we-need-a-bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/we-need-a-bill-of-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"We need a bill of rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to think about the legislation the Government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/08\/07\/1999158.htm\">rammed through yesterday<\/a>&#8211; <em> Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007, No. 2007(Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)  A Bill for an Act to respond to the Northern Territory&#8217;s national emergency, and for related purposes<\/em>.  I don&#8217;t want to think about the Opposition supporting this bill.<br \/>\nMany Indigenous people have sought asylum in the remote communities &#8211;  freedom from alcohol, racism and demeaning treatment.  But now the government is taking control of Aboriginal communities, and  taking away the right of Aboriginal people on those communities to determine what they eat, who comes into their community, how they spend their money, who runs their stores, who manages their community, what buildings are built on their land.  And a  Government rep can attend any meeting held by an Aboriginal organisation.   Rather like a mental hospital really, except that there&#8217;s no independent overseer of the Government-imposed managers.  From asylum to asylum.<br \/>\nNo government should have such power over its citizens.<br \/>\nYou can find the bill through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/bills\/\"> Parliament House website<\/a>.  And the Parliamentary Library has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/library\/pubs\/bd\/2007-08\/08bd018.pdf\">provided a digest<\/a> [.pdf].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to think about the legislation the Government rammed through yesterday&#8211; Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007, No. 2007(Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) A Bill for an Act to respond to the Northern Territory&#8217;s national emergency, and for related purposes. I don&#8217;t want to think about the Opposition supporting this bill. &#8230; <a title=\"We need a bill of rights\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/we-need-a-bill-of-rights\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about We need a bill of rights\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-australia-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}