The Seven Pillars of Aboriginal Exception to the Australian State: Camps, Refugees, Biopolitics and the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) I was and still am puzzled and shocked by this attitude. Where does it come from? Pat Anderson co-author of The Little Children are Sacred report that is said to have been a trigger for the NTER (Anderson 2015, 33). This is our Holocaust. Statement by local Aboriginal people to Dr Stephen Foster, District Medical Office for Remote Communities in the Northern Territory (Koori Mail 2008, 9). The Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), also known as the Intervention into Aboriginal communities, a military style “shock and awe” campaign imposed upon Aboriginal people in June 2007, represents one more step in a continuum of attacks on Aboriginal individuals and families by the racist Australian settler colonial state. This is made more evident through the fact that Australian governments of both the left and the right have joined in bipartisan support for the oppression of Aboriginal people, as indicated by the Stronger Futures legislation of the succeeding Labor government. Therein, the strictures of the Intervention were not removed so much as made more concrete and thoroughgoing for at least a further ten years through a “shameful” bipartisanship (McMullen 2015, 136). This then is proof that the overwhelming majority of powerful political players in the Australian legislature do not support Aboriginal autonomy and our ways of being. What has become painfully apparent is how slim our support base is. We are facing a juggernaut. If we had been critically aware of the history of settler colonial exclusion and disregard for Aboriginal people and the continuing colonial project in this country, we could have seen it coming. Some people did. It is, therefore, perplexing that many Aboriginal people and their allies have been in disbelief over this settler colonial intrusion on Aboriginal lives and dismayed by the actions of what we would have hoped to have been a benign settler colonial state. This is exemplified in the shock expressed by Pat Anderson, quoted at the beginning of this chapter. She and Rex Wild QC