Abstract
This essay provides a critical discussion of the Howard government's 2007 intervention into 73 Aboriginal communities in Australia's Northern Territory. Contending that the official purpose of the intervention differs from its actual purpose, the paper argues that the federal government has mobilised issues of violence, abuse & neglect in these communities as a pretext for advancing an unrelated agenda. The paper characterises the intervention as neocolonial & its actual agenda as one of assimilatory neoliberation. It encompasses discussion of the privatising of Indigenous lands, the corporatising of Indigenous governance, the disciplining of Indigenous labour, & the violations of land, sovereignty & human rights the intervention entails. Adapted from the source document.