A new group has formed to fight the Federal Government's intervention in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities, saying the legislation is racist and aimed at assimilation.
About 100 Aboriginal people from around Australia have gathered in Alice Springs to announce they are forming the National Aboriginal Alliance.
The group's Pat Turner says federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough and the Federal Government have to go.
"We grew up with this, the assimilations policies that are now being recycled by this Federal Government," she said.
"So we're calling on Mal Brough, who is an impediment to justice for our people, to step aside and resign."
The group is furious at what it describes as racist policy designed to force Aboriginal people to assimilate into white culture.
Michael Mansell from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says the legislation must be overturned.
"The aim of this national meeting is to seek the repeal of the legislation that has enabled the troops and the police and everybody else to go into the Aboriginal communities and impose the policies of Canberra on small groups who are powerless and vulnerable to those policies," he said.
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