Description

While there was some general positive response to the level of political and resource commitment to addressing Indigenous health issues that the Northern Territory Emergency Response represented, many were concerned about the processes through which such an intervention was to be enacted. The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association, in collaboration with the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation Health Impact Assessment of the Northern Territory Emergency Response at the University of New South Wales, with financial support from the Fred Hollows Foundation, undertook a health impact assessment (HIA) to establish the positive, negative and unintended consequence of the NTER using a variety of empirical sources. The details of this evaluation are contained in the report. General findings are that the measures of the NTER have been limited in addressing the effects of child abuse or increasing/revising or improving the role of the health sector in managing these issues.