In July, Alyawarra Elders at Ampilatwatja community, 300kms north-east of Alice Springs, walked off their community demanding an end to the Rudd government's Northern Territory Intervention and immediate action to address shocking housing conditions.

Said Richard Downs, spokesperson for the Alyawarra Elders: "Aboriginal people had no other option but to walk off the Prescribed Area…(according) them the status of being internally displaced refugees. We no longer have any rights to exist as humans in our own country and are outcasts in our own community."



Follow and help the Ampilatwatja walk off speaking tour (details here)
Read this special report from Peter Robson and Emma Murphy, in the October 10 Green Left Weekly.


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