The worst was saved for last. On the eve of the 2007 general election the Howard Government launched a sudden, manifestly ill-planned and grotesquely wasteful “emergency Intervention” on the Indigenous people of the Northern Territory. It was led by the military and regarded with utter dismay by the authors of the Little Children Are Sacred Report to which it was allegedly responding. This was not a matter of failing to consult in good faith: it was a defiant failure to consult at all. Bob Debus, Frank Walker Lecture, 2016.