April 29, 2009 – 10:30 pm
As the ad for this says, Andrew McMillan and I will be at the only independent booksellers – the wonderful Red Kangaroo Books in the Todd Mall in Alice Springs tomorrow evening at about 5.45 pm – depending what time we get in from the airport.
Should be a great time – be there or be [...]
Magistrate Loadman said “[I am] not prepared to make the decision on the basis of statements by police officers, this smacking of that hoary old chestnut, “trust me I’m a lawyer” in this case “trust me I’m a policeman”. We do not any longer have courts functioning in the manner of the Star Chamber.”
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, NT Police, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity, The Law
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Tagged Blonks MC, Commissioner Paul White, Darwin River, Detective Sergeant Jamie Andrew Chalker, Finks MC, Hells Angels MC, Howard Springs, Johnson and Murphy, Justice Steve Southwood, Magistrate David Loadman, NT Associations Act, NT Police, NT Police Media Unit, Paul Anthony Johnson, R v Dunkerton, R v Johns, R v Knight, Wills and Eaton
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…sometimes it seems from White’s journal entries and from the letters in Selborne that just about everyone abroad in the Hampshire countryside was armed and looking to shoot something.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Animals, Some places I've been, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged BBC 4, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Gilbert White, John Mayfield, Micahel Wood, Moose, Paul Foster, Pilgrim's Progress, Selborne, Storyteller's World, The Bible, The Century That Made Us, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, The Naturalist's Journal, Thomas Pennant Esq, Wakes
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What does distinguish the members of the so-called outlaw motorcycle gangs from the general population are the strong bonds of loyalty and trust between fellow club members in particular and to others that share their lifestyle more generally – some might argue that these are admirable qualities that the rest of us could use more of.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Birds and people, Uncategorized
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Tagged Commissioner Paul White, Derek Barry, Dr Arthur Veno, Dr Julie van den Eynde, Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland, Hells Angels Motor Cycle club, High Court of Australia, Ken Parish, Lindsay Murdoch, Moral panics, NT Attorney-General Delia Lawrie, NT Police, OMCGs, Outlaw Motor Cycle Gangs, the ACC, The Age, the Australian Crime Commission, The Blonks Motor Cycle club, the Finks Motor Cycle club, The NT News, Thomas v Mowbray, Woolly Days
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The latest edition of the National Library Magazine, from the Australian National Library in Canberra has a fascinating article by Penny on the life and works of the French naturalist and ornithologist François le Vaillant.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Animals, Art, Birds, Birds and people, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged Australian National University, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dr Penny Olsen, Feather and Brush, François le Vallaint, Glimpses of Paradise: The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet, Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, National Library Magazine, Natural History Museum Leiden, Wedgetailed Eagle
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April 16, 2009 – 12:57 am
The NT Writers’ Centre will run the annual Alice Springs Writers Festival, named ‘Eye of the Storm’ in Alice Springs from May 1 to 4 2009.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Art, The Arts, Uncategorized, Writing and writers
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Tagged Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alice Springs, Eye of the Storm, Jennifer Byrne, Jennifer Mills, Kate Grenville Shane Maloney, Linda Jaivin, NT Writers Centre, Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Shellie Morris
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$5 entry, $3 beer – no fire or liquor licenses or other permits or authorities – and Po’ Monkey vigorously enforces his own strict set of rules – no baseball caps, no guns, no baggy-ass pants – this effectively excludes young teenage gangsters from the lounge – no fighting, no beer bought in and no dope smoking.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Art, Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, Uncategorized
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Tagged ABC, Bolivar county, Cleveland, Delta State University, DJ candy, Good Morning America, jook joint, Luther Brown, Memphis Tennessee, Merigold, Mississippi delta, New York Times, Po' Monkeys, Poor Monkey's jook joint, Southern Spaces, Willie Seaberry
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April 14, 2009 – 12:07 pm
The Delta has a rich religious heritage, and is a land where faith- in God, in the future, in grace, and in ultimate redemption – unify all people. Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches are commonly represented in Delta towns.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Fun stuff, Religion, Some places I've been
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Tagged Abundant Life Pentecostal Church of God In Christ, African Methodist Episcopalians, Arkansas, Baptist, Charles Harrison Mason, Church of the End Times, Cleveland Mississippi, Delta Center for Learning and Culture, Delta State University, Freedmen, Greenwood, Little Zion Missionary baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee, Methodist, Missionary Baptists, Mississippi delta, Mississippi River, Morgan City, Mt. Zion Missionary baptist Church, Payne Chapel Missionary baptist Church, Presbyterian, Protestant, Quito, Robert Johnson, True Living Word Temple of Deliverance, Vicksburg
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This series of posters features birds that indicate ecological and social events in four Central Australian Aboriginal languages: Arrernte, Anmatyerr, Alyawarr and Kaytetye.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Some places I've been, Yuendumu
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Tagged Aboriginal bird knowledge, Alyawarr and Kaytetye, Anmatyerr, Arrernte, Birds That Tell People Things, Charles Darwin University, Cultural Signs of central Australia, Myfany Turpin, School for Policy and Social Research, University of Queensland
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