Mel James (ABC Stateline): Alison Anderson, this sounds very much like the policy that Mal Brough was proposing. It’s exactly the same isn’t it?
Alison Anderson, Indigenous Affairs Minister NT Government: Oh look, this has been a policy that’s been delivered and, um, developed by the Henderson Labor government. It’s got nothing to do with Mal Brough whatsoever.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth
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Tagged Jenny Macklin, John Tomlinson, Mal Brough, Marion Scrymgour, Mel James, National Indigenous Times, NT Intervention, NT Stateline, Online Opinion, The ABC, the Dodson Report, Working Future, Yu Review
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Under the Senate’s spotlight are the arrangements between the Tiwi Land Council and Great Southern, the promoter of broad-acre MIS forestry schemes on the islands that have seen vast swathes of virgin tropical savanna transformed into a monocrop of the fast growing Acacia mangium.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth
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Tagged ABC News, Acacia mangium, ANU Wild Country Research and Policy Hub, Background Briefing, Charles Darwin University, Communications and the Arts, Dr Ken Eldridge, Great Southern Plantations, Inquiry into forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands, John Hicks, Marion Scrymgour, Matilda Minerals, Melville Island, NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson, NT News, Paul Everingham, Paul Toohey, PenSyl Ltd, Pentarch Forest Products Ltd, Peter Robertson, Pirntubula Ltd, Professor Brendan Mackey Director, Professor Stephen Garnett, School for Environmental Research, Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Senator Trish Crossin, Stratus Shipping Ltd, Sylvatech, The Australian, Timbercorp, Tiwi Islands, Tiwi Land Council, Wendy Carlisle
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Colonialism has an insatiable appetite – it is forever hungry, it can never be satisfied, and it recruits both unwitting as well as willing emissaries from the vast ranks and ever-growing number of colonised Aboriginal people.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, The NT Intervention, Writing and writers
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Tagged Alia Imtoual, borderlands e-magazine, Elaine Laforteza, Goldi Osuri, Irene Watson, Letter from Darwin, Nicole Watson, Paula Abood, Shakira Hussein, Sue Stanton, Tanja Dreher
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Roadkill will come in handy when next you run into a Black Kite as it lifts, engorged with rotting flesh and on struggling wings, off a carcass on the roadside – or when you run into a wombat, a snake, a horse…you get the drift.
No-one in NT Chief Minister’s Henderson’s now-marginal, single-seat majority government has the intellectual or moral wit, rigour or vigour to think outside of the prevailing assimilationist paradigm that now runs in Australia’s management of indigenous affairs.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Tagged Alison Anderson, Centre for Aboriginal Policy Research, indigenous hybrid economy, Jenny Macklin, John Howard, Jon Altman, Lindsay Murdoch, Mal Brough, Mike Dillon, Paul Henderson, Territory Growth Towns, The Age, The Australian, The Fabian Society, Working Future - Remote Service Delivery
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It is a little too early to tell what the mid-term effects of the collapse of these schemes will have on the viability of what is a valuable and useful agricultural enterprise but it remains to be seen how many of the trees that have been planted will ever be harvested – or just be left to rot in the ground.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth
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Tagged "Managed Investment Scheme", Angus Grigg, Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council, Communications and the Arts Committee, Douglas Daly, Energy Crops Australia, Great Southern Limited, Herron Todd White, Inquiry into forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands, Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan, Michael Pascoe, MIS, Northern Tropical Timber, Plantation Tropical Timbers, Queensland Country Life, Senate Environment, The ABC, The Country Hour, The Financial Review, Timbercorp
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I’ll be travelling back up the wonderful Stuart Highway later this week en-route to home in the south-west NT and will drop in to the Iwantja Arts Centre at Indulkana in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (commonly known as the APY lands) lands of northern South Australia on the way.
I don’t know a lot about the [...]
The successful man would be declared Tangata-Manu, would take the egg in his hand and lead a procession back to his homeland. Once in residence there he was tapu (taboo) for the next five months of his year long status, and allowed his nails to grow and wore a headdress of human hair.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Religion
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Tagged Easter Island, Follore, Jo Ann Van Tilburg, Katherine Routledge, National Geographic, Orongo, Rapa Nui, Society of Ethnobiology, Tangata Manu, University of Arkansas
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I’m in Burra, South Australia, a town I remember when last I was here for a weird old house out of town and a slate mine.
Now I have another memory to add – at the motel I camped in for the night I had a 2005 bottle of Tim Adams’ The Fergus for under $30 [...]
It is a very rich spin indeed that regards three officers resigning and others having their appointments as Police officers terminated as an exemplar of professional conduct likely to instill public confidence in the integrity of the NT Police force.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, NT Police, Stupidity, The Law
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Tagged Club Troppo, Dylan Welch, Ken Parish, NT police Commissioner Paul White, OMCGs, Sydney Morning Herald, Tara Ravens, The Finks MC, The Northern Territory News
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