Foreword
This submission provides background information on the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) and a description of the governance, funding arrangements and the measures and sub-measures through which the NTER was implemented in remote Northern Territory communities up to 30 June 2008.
The material is provided to assist the NTER Review Board in its consideration of the implementation of the NTER and in preparing its report in accordance with its terms of reference.
For a brief description of the NTER see the publication Northern Territory Emergency Response – One Year On.1 Some figures differ between these documents because of the different dates on which information was reported.
August 2008
1 Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, (2008), Northern Territory Emergency Response – One Year On, Canberra, <http://www.facsia.gov.au/nter/docs/reports/one_year_on.htm>.