Indigenous Mobility and the Northern Territory Emergency Response

Taylor, Andrew and Carson, Dean B. (2009). Indigenous Mobility and the Northern Territory Emergency Response. People and Place,17(1):29-38.

Document type:	Journal Article

IRMA ID	78674654xPUB7
Title	Indigenous Mobility and the Northern Territory Emergency Response
Author	Taylor, Andrew Carson, Dean B.
Journal Name	People and Place
Publication Date	2009
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	1
ISSN	1039-4788 (check CDU catalogue )
Start Page	29
End Page	38
Total Pages	10
Place of Publication	Australia
Publisher	Monash University * Centre for Population and Urban Research
HERDC Category	C1 - Journal Article (DEST)
Abstract	A number of commentators have suggested that the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), introduced in June 2007, has promoted the movement of Northern Territory Indigenous people away from remote areas towards towns. Using both census and interview data the authors show that rural to urban movement in the Northern Territory has been well established since at least 1991. Mobility pattens are complex and many moves are simply short-term. But the long-term trend amongst Indigenous people follows the rural to urban pattern that has been observed in numerous other locations within Australia and overseas. Indeed, in the short term the NTER is as likely to inhibit mobility from more remote locations to urban centres as it is to promote it.
Keywords	Northern Territory Emergency Response Aboriginal Australians Mobility Rural Urban
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