aboriginal homes raided in the Norther Territory australia

Dear Kerry O'Brien and 7.30 researchers,
  I have just returned from the Northern Territory.  I want
John Howard
  to explain why house to house raids without warrants are being
  conducted by the AFTERP in all the Alice Springs
town camps.
  I also want to know why at least two of the senior women who toured
  major cities speaking out against a uranium waste dump on their
  traditional lands have been raided by the AFTERP on warrants issued by a
  Federal Magistrate in Canberra, their furniture slashed with knives,
  belongings damages, laptops and mobile phones seized, and phones
  tapped.  I was told by one of the women that the warrant gave 12 hours
  access to her home, and that she was told that the measures were
  justified because of the security crackdown for APEC ministers.  One
  of those women is an elderly grandmother.
  I have also been told by town camp residents that the AFTERP has set up
  surveillance on all households in the town camps, and have
  photographed without consent, every Aboriginal child in those town
  camps.  In the 1990's the AFTERP were successfully taken to court for
  exactly the same violations in Redfern.
  Please report on this disgraceful conduct, and pursue a full
  explanation from the Howard Government.
  regards,
  Jennifer Martiniello
  Member, Advisory Board
  Australian Centre for Indigenous History,
  Australian National University
  Aroha Groves