"Shame on Australia" - Valerie Martin at 2nd anniversary of NT intervention

On 20 June 2009 rallies were held across Australia to mark the 2nd anniversary of the then Howard Government's"intervention" in the Northern Territory. At the Melbourne rally, which was attended by some 200 people on a wintry day, one of the main speakers was Valerie Martin from Yuendumu, NT.

For more on the campaign against the intervention, visit: http://rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com/ http://stoptheintervention.org/

More footage from the Melbourne rally is in preparation.

Note - (Jenny) Macklin referred to by Valerie is the Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs.

By the way, the statue thart speakers at this rally found themselves standing beside honours Redmond Barry, the judge who hanged Ned Kelly and presided over the trial of several of the Eureka rebels...

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• NT intervention
• Indigenous
• genocide
• chllptr
• Melbourne

[karenapuhi]

moving speech.......

[thepoliticalcat]

Very nice.

[Uriohau]

Deadly Auntie, this is the truth straight from the grassroots