The Wire

As The Wire noted last week a new indigenous group, The National Aboriginal Alliance, has been formed with the aim of combating some parts of the federal governments northern territory intervention plan. On Friday the group held a joint meeting in Alice Springs, outlining some of their concerns and aims further. CAAMA radio was on hand to cover the event and they recorded some interviews and speeches from the speakers. First up some comments by Pat Turner the CEO of National Indigenous Television, outlining her concerns about the scrapping of the CDEP scheme, which employed many indigenous people in remote communities.