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June, 2009


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A Ssssh*tload of free music from Paul Kelly’s 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.

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The Senate, the Alice Springs News and Centrecorp – a “multitude of factual errors and distortions”

As the Alice Springs News says: “a dossier of Alice Springs News reports was a substantial part of the briefing NT Senator Nigel Scullion gave Senator Brandis.”

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Caravanners – plague locusts of the northern winter

I have a vicious occasional thought that when the get to Darwin they will all run out of road and over a cliff into the Arafura Sea.

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Small cute thing with wings of the week – Sugarbag bees

There are over 1,500 species of “true blue” Australian native bees. Australian native bees can be black, yellow, red, metallic green or even black with blue polka dots!: Australian Native Bee Research Centre

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Miliwanga Sandy Interview Part 2: “This is our country…and we shouldn’t be treated like slaves!”

We’ve lived here longer than anyone – this is our country and we should have the same freedoms, rights as anyone else. Why should we be treated any different from anyone else just because of the colour of our skin and where we live?

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Miliwanga Sandy – language is our culture, our life, our identity

That policy of speaking English only at school is the wrong thing – it is not good for our children, because if they put, if the children are only taught in English – they will forget their language, and they will lose their identity. They won’t know who they are.

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Roadkill of the week – Feral Cat, Phillip Creek, NT

Feral cats have been in Australia since European settlement. They live independently of humans and are found in all habitats ranging from rainforest to desert throughout the Northern Territory.

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Camp Dog of the week – Fluffy

Someone suggested that we could call this leatherback camp dog “Jenny” as a tribute to Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin – but “Fluffy” is more suited to her undoubted charm and character.

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Apology to Alison Anderson:

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 [...]

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Art Centre of the week – Warmun, east Kimberley, WA

The main reason for my travel to Warmun was to get a better look at the work of, and make contact with several of the local artists who paint bird stories grounded in the local landscape and culture.

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Womens Agenda

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Leading Company

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Smart Company

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Property Observer

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