I stopped, turned and bore witness to the death of this small wonder.
I was camped beside the road en-route to Warmun in Western Australia earlier this week and thought that the rising moon and passing roadtrains might provide some images of interest…
Acclimatisation societies were found throughout the British colonies of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US – being particularly influential in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
There is the very real possibility that Alison Anderson could follow Scrymgour’s lead and walk – not to the cross-benches – but across the Assembly floor to the CLP – gifting government to the CLP’s Terry Mills.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu
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Tagged 7.30 Report, Alison Anderson, Clare Martin, Crikey, Delia Lawrie, Gerry Woods, Jane Aagard, Marion Scrymgour, Murray McLaughlin, NT News, Paul Henderson, Working Future
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Country Liberal Party stalwarts Dave Tollner, John Elferink, Peter Murphy were in attendance, as was of course Terry “the man who may soon be King” Mills, who waxed lyrical about Nicolas’s observations of country and his ear for recording conversations.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Art, Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Writing and writers
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Tagged Alison Anderson, Andrew McMillan, Australian Literary Review, Chips Mackinolty, Crikey, Dave Tollner, John Elferink, Malandirri McCarthy, Marion Scrymgour, Nicolas Rothwell, On the Roadhouse, Peter Cochrane, Peter Murphy, Robert Dessaix, St Mary's Star of the Sea, Terry Mills, The Red Highway
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Henderson’s failures are all his own doing, led by a poor set of polices that attack his electoral heartland and a supine surrender to the Federal government’s directions — but he hasn’t been helped by the loose cannons rolling around the deck of what passes for the sinking ship of state in the NT.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The Northern Myth
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Tagged ABC News, Alison Anderson, Community Engagement Report, Lindsay Murdoch, Mal Brough, Marion Scrymgour, Murray McLaughlin, Pat Dodson, Paul Henderson, The 7.30 Report, The Age, The Australian, Working Futures
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