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15 per cent of NT electors not enrolled to vote: intervention blamed
Issue 206 - 22 Jul 2010
The Northern Territory intervention into remote Aboriginal communities could result in even fewer people voting at the federal election, a university academic says.
More than 35,000 Northern Territory residents are not enrolled to vote.
Ken Parish, a law lecturer at Charles Darwin University, believes even more people have dropped off the electoral role since the Howard Government began the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), also known as "the intervention", in 2007.
Under the intervention, alcohol and pornography are prohibited in Aboriginal communities and half the income of most welfare recipients is quarantined for essentials such as food.
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