ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some background to the politics of the intervention, specifically focused on the grounds used to justify this extraordinary set of measures. The inquiry recognised that poor access to health care was one of the factors which led to child abuse and neglect, alongside alcohol and drug abuse, unemployment, gambling, pornography, poor education and housing, and general loss of identity and control. Sexuality, sex education and indigenous people in remote communities have been threaded together within the context of the intervention in contemporary. Australian politics profoundly shape bodily orientations in a very specific and deleterious set of political manoeuvres. Throughout the Northern Territory large bright blue or yellow signs were erected at the entrance of Indigenous communities announcing that pornography and alcohol were banned and in the process publicly branding Indigenous communities as spaces of perversion and decay.
