NT: Intervention not to blame for urban drift: study

AAP General News (Australia)
12-17-2008
NT: Intervention not to blame for urban drift: study

A new study's discredited claims the federal intervention into Northern Territory indigenous
communities is causing Aborigines to drift into urban centres.

The measures to combat child sex abuse have been repeatedly blamed for an increase
in the numbers of Aboriginal people squatting on the borders of towns like Darwin and
Katherine.

But a study by researchers from Charles Darwin University refutes the claims saying
aborigines are on the move regardless of the intervention.

Report author ANDREW TAYLOR says urbanisation has been happening in the NT for decades
and it's entirely consistent with models of migration from rural areas elsewhere in the
world.

AAP RTV tr/af/fdf

KEYWORD: INDIGENOUS DRIFT (DARWIN)

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