This new 2016 edition of the ground-breaking The Intervention: An Anthologyincludes a preface by Anita Heiss and brings together someof Australia’s greatest Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers andthinkers who analyse, illuminate and voice their anger, disgust andhorror at the Intervention introduced by the Howard governmentin 2007. Through fiction, memoir, essays, speeches, poetry andcommuniqués, The Intervention brings a new perspective and urgencyto one of the most invasive, puzzling and unprecedented actions by agovernment in Australian history – one that largely remains outside thepublic radar.
