Weaponising Indigenous children for the voice’s no campaign is a distraction from the solutions we need | Catherine Liddle

Neglect – due to poverty and social disfunction – is the major issue in the NT. Aboriginal communities have the answers

In our Law children are very sacred because they carry the two spring wells of water from our country within them.

These are the words of a senior Yolŋu lawman in 2007 that provide the headline to Little Children are Sacred, the report of the Northern Territory board of inquiry into the protection of Aboriginal children from sexual abuse.

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