John Howard defended the measures after the Northern Territory’s police commissioner delivered an apology to Indigenous people for the force’s involvement.
The Northern Territory intervention was “totally justified”, former prime minister John Howard has declared after the territory’s police commissioner apologised for the force’s involvement.
“The intervention was totally justified because the NT government had failed in its responsibility to Indigenous children in the Territory, despite the findings of a report that that government had commissioned,” he said in a statement.“That should not have happened and I stand by every element of my government’s decision to intervene.”
“At times, police officers have abused their powers or fallen short in their duty of care towards Aboriginal offenders, witnesses and victims of crime,” he said during his Garma address in northeast Arnhem Land.Murphy’s comments drew heavy criticism from the Northern Territory Police Association. “It is also not the role of police to assess the success or otherwise of federal government-directed policies of Closing the Gap, the stolen generation and the intervention, as the commissioner has done,” she said.
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