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An independent review into the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), or NT intervention, has been accused of being 鈥渨atered down鈥 before its final release in order to not embarrass the federal Labor government.
The interview below was carried out by Argentinean newspaper Pagina 12 with Monthly Review editor and Marxist economist John Bellamy Foster. It was posted on on October 10, from which the version below is abridged. The full version is included as part of a wide-ranging collection of articles and videos on the financial crisis posted at socialist e-journal Links, .
鈥淭his strategy is designed to help pensioners, carers and families, and first home buyers鈥, declared Australia鈥檚 Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his October 14 address to the nation. Rudd was announcing a $10.4 billion 鈥渆conomic security strategy鈥 in response to the global financial crisis.