Mother of intervention

YOU just have to read Stuart Rintoul's cover story on Northern Territory Aboriginal leader Bess Price to know that she brings a unique understanding to the crisis in some remote communities.

YOU just have to read Stuart Rintoul's cover story on Northern Territory Aboriginal leader Bess Price to know that she brings a unique understanding to the crisis in some remote communities.

Drunken violence, child neglect, health and educational disadvantage - she's seen it and she's lived it.

But her uncompromising stance - and her support for the Northern Territory intervention - has drawn many critics. Aboriginal leadership is often fraught and consensus all too rare, but Price is a forceful and articulate advocate for those who need it most - indigenous women and children.