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The State of the North

A Selection of Papers from the 2003 Charles Darwin Symposia

'The State of the North' - is it the future of an increasingly environmentally challenged mainstream Australia? Or a failed colonial outpost, already showing signs of its use-by-date in its dependence on imported resources for survival? Does being the 'gateway' to Asia leave residents with a moral responsibility for setting Australia's policy on emergency migration or is our inability to influence policy a simple reminder of the Northern Territory's dependency on the federation? Will becoming a state lend us any weight in the national body politic? Such questions inspire this collection of papers from the Charles Darwin Symposia Series for 2003, and are collected here to mark an important historic moment in the description of Territory issues. With clear and purposeful 'think pieces' from such key contemporary commentators as Mandawuy Yunupingu, Tim Flannery, Glenn Withers, Paul Dibb, Andrew Wilkie and Gillian Cowlishaw, this volume should be of use to policy makers and concerned members of the public alike. Tess Lea is the Director of the School for Social and Polity Research within the Institute of Advanced Studies at Charles Darwin University. Bill Wilson is a Senior Advisor, Support and Equity Services at Charles Darwin University; an historian and expert in issues of politics and policing.

To understand the dynamics of any discrimination, it is essential to have the
capacity to adopt bi-cultural views and empathy. ... Not to take such a cross-
cultural position in approaching social problems is likely to fuel already existing
racial tension. ... whitefeller existence began as a minor link on a cross-global
communication system, the Overground Telegragh Line. The ancient convergent
Caterpillar tracks into Alice Springs have been supplemented today by the travel
routes of the ...