{"id":436,"date":"2008-09-29T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T03:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/09\/29\/uniting-church-forum-to-address-nt-intervention-concerns\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T03:14:35","slug":"uniting-church-forum-to-address-nt-intervention-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/09\/29\/uniting-church-forum-to-address-nt-intervention-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniting Church forum to address NT intervention concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 12px Verdana; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\" class=\"first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"286\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.daylife.com\/imageserve\/07m278W0631hS\/610x.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"225\" style=\"width: 286px; height: 225px\" \/>About 200 people are expected to attend a Uniting Church forum at Darwin University this week to voice their concerns about the Federal Government&#8217;s intervention in remote communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\">The forum is being held on Tuesday, the same day the Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin is expected to be given the results of a review into the intervention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\">A spokesman for the church&#8217;s Northern Synod, which covers the Northern Territory, the Kimberley region and northern South Australia, says many churchgoers with links to Aboriginal communities believe the emergency response is creating fear and confusion rather than hope for a better future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/09\/29\/2376449.htm\" title=\"ABC news report\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 people are expected to attend a Uniting Church forum at Darwin University this week to voice their concerns about the Federal Government&#8217;s intervention in remote communities. The forum is being held on Tuesday, the same day the Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin is expected to be given the results of a review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,14,6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}