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Northern Territory's 'shameful chapter' has ended after 15 years

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The Federal Government's Northern Territory Intervention has ended Source: SBS News / NITV

In 2007, then Prime Minister John Howard sent the army and police into Northern Territory remote communities in response to violence and the alleged sexual assault of children.



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