• The Statehood Newsletter

• Fact Sheets

• Publications

• Discussion Papers

• Submissions

• Reports

• Terms of Reference

• Surveys

Statehood Newsletter

• Issue 5 June 2009- The Statehood Messenger
• Issue 4 November 2008- The Statehood Messenger
• Issue 3 July 2007
• Issue 2 January 2007
• Issue 1 June 2006

Discussion Paper - Constitutional Paths to Statehood

Northern Territory Statehood Steering Committee Community Discussion Paper

• Section One Discussion Paper
• Section Two Discussion Paper Annexures
• Executive Summary Companion Paper to Discussion Paper

Submissions

Submissions to the Committee are welcome. The Committee so far has received the following submissions:

1. Central Australian Aboriginal Congress: Statehood, Politics and Aborignal Health (Updated version re-submitted by Congress from a prior version dated 13 November Submission to the Commonwealth’s Committee on Legal and Consitutional Affairs
2. The Statehood Steering Commmittee Submisison and the personal submission prepared by Mr Graham Nicholson, Legal Advisor to the Committee, is available on the House of Representatives website.

Work is ongoing to load reports that are not yet electronically available. For hard copies of previous reports, where available, please contact the Statehood Steering Committee.

Reports

• Report to the Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs 2005 Calendar Year Activities

Terms of Reference

• Terms of reference- revised 2008

Fact Sheets

These Fact Sheets are being updated during October 2009, a new set will be posted shortly

• Fact Sheet 1 - Self Government and Statehood - What’s The Difference?
• Fact Sheet 2 - How the Territory is not equal to the States
• Fact Sheet 3 - Who decides we are not a State?
• Fact Sheet 4 - Will Statehood give us a bigger voice in Canberra?
• Fact Sheet 5 - Will we be an equal state?
• Fact Sheet 6 - What is the impact of Statehood on financial relations with the Commonwealth?
• Fact Sheet 7 - Will defence forces still be based in the Territory?
• Fact Sheet 8 - A new name for a new State?
• Fact Sheet 9 - How would Statehood affect the everyday cost of living?
• Fact Sheet 10 - Australians voting to change the Australian Constitution - why Territorians don’t count
• Fact Sheet 11 - Is the Territory Population too small for Statehood?
• Fact Sheet 12 - The Territory Way of Life - Speed Limits & Firecrackers
• Fact Sheet 13 - Statehood and the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
• Fact Sheet 14 - Some Important Historical Dates for Aboriginal Peoples of the Northern Territory
• Fact Sheet 15 - Aboriginal Citizenship and the Right to Vote
• Fact Sheet 16 - The 1998 Aboriginal Constitutional Conventions
• Fact Sheet 17 - Political Development of the Northern Territory
• Fact Sheet 18 - Territorians and a Process Towards Statehood
• Fact Sheet 19 - Democracy Denied in the Northern Territory
• Fact Sheet 20 - Statehood - What does it Mean for Me?
• Fact Sheet 21 - Does Statehood Mean Another Layer of Government
• Fact Sheet 22 - Statehood and the Proposed Radioactive Waste Management Facility
• Fact Sheet 23 - What Territorians say they understand about Statehood in 2005
• Fact Sheet 24 - The Commonwealth Constitution and the Northern Territory
• Fact Sheet 25 - Why Some People May NOT Support Statehood
• Fact Sheet 26 - Uranium Mining in the Northern Territory
• Fact Sheet 27 - Northern Territory Mines and Minerals
• Fact Sheet 28 - What is a Constitution?
• Fact Sheet 29 - What is a Bill of Rights?
• Fact Sheet 30 - Northern Territory Industrial Relations
• Fact Sheet 31 - Does Statehood Mean State Taxes?
• Fact Sheet 32 - Consultation on Statehood - the Territory and its Mobile Population
• Fact Sheet 33 - Flags and Emblems on Statehood
• Fact Sheet 34 - What is an Upper House

Publications

What is Statehood? brochure- a quick guide.

Statehood Story Boards

The Committee has developed a range of story boards. These are used when we are discussing the issues on each board in a presentation or teaching context. The language used is simple and direct. The Fact Sheets express some of the same issues in more complex and more detailed ways.

To request a presentation using the Story Boards get in touch with us now. Click on the relevant stories below to have a look at the discussion topics.

• Title Board - Together toward Statehood - Slide 1
• Why the NT is not Equal  - Slide 2
• Statehood What’s the Difference? - Slide 3
• Self Government What’s the Difference? - Slide 4
• What is the Australian Constitution? - Slide 5
• The Queen and Us - Slide 6
• Historical Dates for Aboriginal Peoples - Slide 7
• Aboriginal Peoples and the Right to Vote - Slide 8
• Land Rights Act - Slide 9
• Changes to the Land Rights Act - Slide 10
• Do We Want Statehood - Slide 11
• Federal Representation - Slide 12
• Population and Statehood  - Slide 13
• Financial Issues - Slide 14

Aborginal History Timeline - Governance and Participation 

Statehood Survey

In 2005 the Statehood Steering Committee conducted its first sample survey. The 2005 Survey was to get an understanding of what Territorians know about Statehood so that we can direct our education and information campaigns appropriately.

In 2006 we decided to build upon the baseline questions asked in 2005 and developed a new survey that asked people to tell us what they want from Statehood.

The results for the 2006 Survey can be seen here and the media release accompanying these results.