Australian intervention found to breach race obligations
![Professor James Anaya says income quarantining, alcohol and pornography bans and compulsory leases are targeted and therefore racist. [ABC TV]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200907/r395393_1850853.jpg "Professor James Anaya says income quarantining, alcohol and pornography bans and compulsory leases are targeted and therefore racist. [ABC TV]")
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Professor James Anaya says income quarantining, alcohol and pornography bans and compulsory leases are targeted and therefore racist. [ABC TV]
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Australia has been found to have breached its international anti-race discrimination obligations by continuing for almost three years its intervention policies with indigenous communities of the Northern Territory.
The formal finding comes from the UN special rapporteur on indigenous people, US law professor James Anaya.
Professor Anaya visited Australia last year and held extensive consultations with affected indigenous communities, as well as Australian state governments.
He's told Radio Australia's Connect Asia program income quarantining, alcohol and pornography bans and compulsory leases are targeted and therefore racist.
"They apply pretty much only to Indigenous communities and are intended to do that," he said.
"So on their face, they make distinctions on the basis of race and in doing so they limit certain rights and freedoms."
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