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Last Drinks; QE30 by Paul Toohey australian-economy Bell takes the pulse ofWhen Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid 2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor continue with the intervention? What are the reasons for the social crisis the neglect and the violence and how might things be different? Toohey argues