Patrick Wolfe and the settler-colonial intervention

In some ways it is heartbreakingly appropriate to reflect on historian Patrick Wolfe's last book and intellectual legacy on the tenth birthday of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER, the Intervention). A decade ago, the Intervention left many of us struggling to understand what seemed like a radically changing political landscape in Indigenous policy. Into this confusion, for us and many others, came the powerful and illuminating analysis of Patrick Wolfe.