The Intervention series was made in response to the Howard Government's
Emergency Intervention into Aboriginal communities, after many conversations
with people directly affected by the Intervention. Some areas of Tennant
Creek are "prescribed" by the Intervention but not others. "Income
Management" is a policy of withholding 50% of a person's welfare payment,
which can be "spent" at a registered outlet on certain items but not others.
More than 13,300 people in the Northern Territory currently have their
income managed. The local newspaper in Tennant Creek chose not to actively
report on one of the most radical pieces of legislation to rebound on lives
of over 50% of the Tennant Creek community.

The Intervention Series is Alder's perspective on this action by the
Australian Government and by extension the Australian population toward
Indigenous Australia.

Alison Alder
Intervention series, 2008
Screen prints on Stonehenge paper, ed 5
78 x 111cm

Intervention I, (Power Card) 2008

Intervention IV (It's a lottery where you live), 2008

Intervention V (Day 176), 2008

Intervention VI (Quarantine), 2008

Intervention VII, 2008