Rrrright now you can get a rabble of the master’s songs starting with “R” if you go to Paul’s homeage and follow the links to A to Z.
Over the last few years, Paul Kelly has performed a series of unique shows under the banner ‘A to Z’, whereby he sings 100 songs from his catalogue in alphabetical order over 4 nights. He is mainly alone on stage, joined occasionally by guests. These shows have sold out consistently in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, and Adelaide.
An expanded version of my Crikey post of 29 June 2009…
Centrecorp is, as the Federal Government’s own Office of Evaluation and Audit (Indigenous Programs) noted in a Report of November 2008, a:
…very successful private organisation which has received approximately $25.1m in support from the Australian Government. As noted in its various establishment documents, Centrecorp has taken “advantage of investment and commercial opportunities” for the benefit of Aboriginal people in Central Australia and have built an impressive asset base over the past 23 years.
It is wintertime here in the north so our roads are clogged with hordes of southern tourists towing caravans.
Last week I drove south from Katherine to Alice Springs on the Stuart Highway and passed wave after wave of these brave souls venturing forth into the wilds in search of…well just what they seek escapes me. On one long, flat stretch of road south of Tennant Creek I counted 12 caravans stretching away in the distance - swarming from over their borders northward.
I have an occasional mean thought that when the get to Darwin they will all run out of road, over a cliff and into the Arafura Sea.
A "Sugarbag" bee. Photo: Peter O.
I was in the old High School at Katherine in the NT recently and came across this sign: “Please be careful of our native Honey Bees (They Do Not Sting)“.
Further to yesterday’s post from Miliwanga Sandy about how she and her family feel about the NT Government’s effective abolition of the remnants of the NT’s bilingual education system, today I want to provide a few more of Miliwanga’s strong words from when we spoke at her home at Wugularr community a week or so ago.
Here Miliwanga talks about the NT Intervention and how the Intervention - for good or ill - has affected them. Miliwanga also told how she feels about the continuing suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act in relation to Aboriginal people in the NT, and has a look back at how conditions where for her family when she was growing up, what life is like now, and the hopes and fears she has for the future.
Miliwanga Sandy, Wugularr NT
This is my long-time friend Miliwanga Sandy, who lives at the Wugularr (formerly Beswick) township 100 or so kilometres outside of Katherine in the NT.
Right now she’s in either a car, bus or plane travelling to Canberra to attend a one-day seminar at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to speak on a subject very close to her heart - the rights of her, her family and the people she lives with to speak, learn and be taught in your own language.
Feral Cat, Phillip Creek Station, NT
I don’t see too many feral cats while I’m driving around - I saw this one this past Sunday while driving south from Wycliffe Well to Alice Springs close to the Phillip Creek bridge on the Stuart Highway and I would have only seen perhaps a dozen dead roadside cats in many years driving the highways and backroads of the NT.
"Fluffy"
Someone suggested that we could call this fine specimen of a leatherback camp dog “Jenny” as a tribute to the abject failures of the Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin’s NT Intervention to do very-much-at-all-really about the parlous state of health of too many of the dogs that live in the 73 communities subject to that most flawed of recent attempts at social engineering on the grandest of scales.
But I thought it better that we give her a name that was more suited to her undoubted charm and character - so for present purposes we’ll call her “Fluffy”.
On 5 June 2009 Crikey published an article by Bob Gosford titled “Roll up, roll up and watch NT Labour it itself alive”. In that article we suggested Ms Anderson had acted parochially and in self interest by determining that her home community of Papunya should be on the list of 20 “growth towns” and as a result her conduct should be investigated.
We now understand that Ms Anderson was not responsible for the compilation of the list of growth towns. This list was decided by the Northern Territory government and the then Minister for Indigenous Policy some months prior to Ms Anderson being appointed.
Crikey apologises to Minister Anderson for any hurt which may have been caused by this.
Through town, aross the creek, and follow the signs past the old car and the Boab tree to...
I was in Katherine earlier last week with a few days to spare - I thought about going out south-west of Katherine to Yarralin and some other small towns in the Victoria River district to catch up with some old people to talk about birds but decided to head further west and pushed on to Kununurra and points south-west…
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