Public health implications of the 'National emergency intervention to protect the Indigenous children in the Northern Territory of Australia'.

The Australian Federal government’s Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) to protect Aboriginal children deserves a closer analysis. Numerous studies and reports in the past have chronicled the plight of Indigenous Australians 1,2 . The Wild and Anderson report 3 commissioned by the Northern Territory Government attracted an unusually swift response from the Federal Government. Various aspects of this response have been debated and analyzed 4-6