Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 1996Census of Population and Housing.
3.
NT Correctional Services Annual Report1998/99, p.84.
4.
Territory Health Services Annual Report1998/99, p.45.
5.
ABS above.
6.
English literacy is a far bleaker picture see ‘Learning Lessons — An Independent Review of Indigenous Education in the Northern Territory’, NT Department of Education, Darwin, 1999.
7.
ABS above.
8.
Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commission, ‘Report: Inquiry into the Provision of an Interpreter Service in Aboriginal Languages by the Northern Territory Government’.
9.
24 November 1999, Catherine Munro AAP.
10.
Northern Territory Aboriginal Languages Interpreter Service Trial: Draft Evaluation Report 14 July 1997.
11.
Accreditation by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) which is responsible for accrediting all interpreters nationally, not just Indigenous.
12.
NT Anti-Discrimination Commission Report: Inquiry into the Provision of an Interpreter Service in Aboriginal Languages by the Northern Territory Government, p.64
13.
The Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, Enquiry into the Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders) Bill1999.
14.
The Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, above, p.115.
15.
Commonwealth of Australia, Hansard, Senate, Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, 2 February, p.39.
16.
NT government, Hansard, 24 February 2000.
17.
Concluding Observations by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 56th Session, 6–24 March 2000, p.5.
18.
‘Northern Territory Aboriginal Languages Interpreter Service Trial: Draft Evaluation Report’, 14 July 1997, p.8.
