A co-author of the report that sparked the Northern Territory intervention says he is frustrated by the release of yet another federal government report into Aboriginal disadvantage.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin on Wednesday released a discussion paper, titled Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory, saying they would consult Aborigines about the continuation of the NT Emergency Response (NTER).
The discussion paper highlights three major priority areas to be addressed - education, alcohol and employment.
NT barrister Rex Wild said the Little Children Are Sacred report he co-authored in 2007, which uncovered a high prevalence of child sex abuse in remote Aboriginal communities, identified education and alcohol as matters of absolute urgency.
"So in 2011 they've identified those things yet again - bloody rocket science isn't it," he told AAP.
"It's just phenomenal stuff they're saying and they're not even acknowledging the fact that everybody who has commented and written and studied and investigated the whole plight of Aboriginal people over the last 30 years has said the same thing.
"It is terribly frustrating and looking at this document, which I know is meant in good faith, they're doing the same thing again and again, and again, and again and again.
"The consultations they're talking about having is exactly what we did in 2007.
"The results of those consultations led to the 96 recommendations we made," he said, adding that the government should go back and act on the recommendations of the original report.
He said only one recommendation, relating to the recognition of the sexual abuse of indigenous children as an issue of national significance, had ever been acted on.
"It's just abysmal," Mr Wild said.
"This wasn't an emergency response, it was an intervention, and in fact, it was an invasion.
"But there have been some benefits from the intervention, such as the fact that we're now talking about the problems."
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