Recommendations would kill intervention: Abbott
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Don't change a thing ... the Opposition spokesman for Indigenous affairs, Tony Abbott. (AFP: Patrick Doyle)
The Federal Opposition says changes to the Northern Territory Emergency Response, recommended by a review board, will be the death of the intervention.
The review board's recommendations include that income management be made voluntary, except where it would aid child protection and school attendance.
The Opposition's spokesman for Indigenous affairs, Tony Abbott, is calling on the government not to adopt the recommendation.
"At the heart of the intervention is the compulsory welfare quarantine in these remote, welfare dependent townships.
"Now, that's going to go if the Government accepts the watered down version of the report and its recommendations.
"And that would be fatal to the intervention."
