{"id":3611,"date":"2007-08-10T21:54:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/how-to-fix-the-nt-national-emergency-response-legislation\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","slug":"how-to-fix-the-nt-national-emergency-response-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/how-to-fix-the-nt-national-emergency-response-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix the NT National Emergency Response Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a clear account of problems with the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Legislation, a list of possible unintended bad consequences, and some solutions to some of the problems, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrights.gov.au\/legal\/submissions\/2007\/NTNER_Measures20070810.html\">Submission of the Human Rights And Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)<\/a> to today&#8217;s public hearing on the legislation by the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee.<br \/>\nHere are just a few of the possible bad consequences they note:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n35. Phasing out CDEP is likely to result in increased unemployment. Currently, there are approximately 7,500 people in the NT on CDEP. The ideal situation would be that those 7,500 people would be transitioned through Newstart to jobs in the open workplace.<br \/>\n36. However, the government expects that only about 2,000 CDEP participants will get &#8220;real work&#8221;.[16] It follows that the remaining 5,500 people are not expected to find sustainable employment and will remain on Work for the Dole.[17]<br \/>\n40.  HREOC is also concerned that the removal of CDEP and lack of alternative employment options in Indigenous communities could lead to some people deciding to move into urban areas such as Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs. This would exacerbate the current pressures in those areas in relation to available and appropriate housing and other essential services. Darwin already has the highest rate of homelessness in an urban setting on a national scale.<br \/>\n41.  HREOC also notes that once CDEP participants leave that scheme and become welfare recipients, they will lose their ability to accrue superannuation.<br \/>\n42.  It is well known that unemployment can create additional family pressures and general social unrest in a community. It is therefore possible that increased unemployment in communities will increase, rather than decrease, the risk of family violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a clear account of problems with the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Legislation, a list of possible unintended bad consequences, and some solutions to some of the problems, go to the Submission of the Human Rights And Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) to today&#8217;s public hearing on the legislation by the Senate Legal and Constitutional &#8230; <a title=\"How to fix the NT National Emergency Response Legislation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/how-to-fix-the-nt-national-emergency-response-legislation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to fix the NT National Emergency Response Legislation\">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-3611","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\/3611","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=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}