Salil Shetty, Amnesty International鈥檚 secretary-general, has slammed the Northern Territory intervention, saying that it is making the problems facing Aboriginal Australians worse, AAP reported on October 7.
He said the government鈥檚 鈥渢op-down externally driven鈥 efforts to close the gap on Aboriginal socio-economic disadvantage were instead having the opposite effect鈥. Amnesty was appalled that current policies had in effect caused 鈥渇orced evictions from their traditional homelands鈥.