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Super shires condemned as worse than Intervention

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has condemned the super shires model as the most detrimental policy for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory.

Mr Gooda says people in remote communities feel they have lost all control of their affairs since 70 small local community councils were amalgamated into eight shires in 2008.

He says the shires have generated a stronger feeling of disempowerment than the federal Intervention.

Mr Gooda is calling on the Territory Government to scrap the shires model.

"I have not heard one person say anything positive about what has happened," he said.

"People feel totally disempowered by it and if we don't do something about getting ... governance structures back into the communities, the outcome of this amalgamation will be probably worse than the Northern Territory Intervention.

"I would suggest people who think it is going well go out and start talking to Aboriginal people in communities.

"It is so important it has been raised with me everywhere I go, the amalgamation of shires and the total detrimental effect it has had on these communities."

Local Government Minister Malarndirri McCarthy says the shire system is an improvement.

She says Mr Gooda does…