Australia: Open Letter: Talking About An Indigenous Tomorrow

Australia: Open Letter: Talking About An Indigenous Tomorrow Alexis Wright, 2011   Dear Senator Bob Brown and Senator Rachel Siewert,   Like most other Indigenous people around Australia, I have followed the Intervention in the Northern Territory. I was one of the first people to speak against it, as it was announced on the day my novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2007.   I have heard about the Intervention’s wastefulness and uselessness through the usual...

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