Sad, sad days in the Territory. Woke up on Friday June 29 to discover the Stronger Futures legislation had passed through the Senate at 2am that morning.
I guess we were expecting it, though they kept us on tenterhooks for the entire 2-week parliamentary sitting, leaving it until just two days before the new financial year kicked in - the thing being, if stronger futures didn't pass. what would happen to those bits of the budget?
Djiniyini Gondarra has labelled the bill's passage a declaration of "war on democracy". Alyawarr and Yolŋu Nations declared a day of mourning.
Soon there will be blogging about it. Just giving people up here time to regroup and plan their next steps...
Stay tuned.
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