The Melbourne Newsroom

Students from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne are converting old shipping containers into new community centres for the Gudorrka Community and Knuckey’s Lagoon Community in the Northern Territory.  

Pat Anderson, co-author of the Little Children are Sacred report into the neglect and abuse of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory will give the annual social justice lecture reflecting on the NT Intervention at the University of Melbourne tomorrow, Wednesday, 24 June at 6pm.

A leading Melbourne University health expert says one of the main benefits of the NT Intervention has been getting Indigenous health back on the agenda as a major social justice issue in Australia.

Professor Hugh Taylor, who is Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne, began working alongside Fred Hollows in the seventies, and has for 30 years been striving to eradicate trachoma, a treatable eye disease causing blindness which disproportionately affects Indigenous Australians.