The Wire

The Northern Territory Government has announced a new Indigenous homelands policy that it says will turn 20 remote communities into growth towns. But critics say the policy will have negative impacts on smaller homelands, or outstations. Featured in this story: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research director Jon Altman, interviewed while he was at the Darwin airport. He’d just left Maningrida – one of the towns that will receive extra funding under the proposal – and The Wire asked him about the general feeling there in response to the plan