August 31, 2009 – 4:31 pm
Macklin should resign as Minister – she has no results to show us, she doesn’t – or doesn’t know how to – listen or talk to Aboriginal people – she should go, and the sooner the better: Richard Downs, Alyawarra leader
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention
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Tagged Alison Anderson, Alyawarra people, Ampilatwatja, Bess Price, Chair NT Indigenous Advisory Council, Dave Price, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Green left Weekly, Interventionwalkoff, Jenny Macklin, Richard Downs, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Warren Mundine
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August 28, 2009 – 3:54 pm
In the weird world that passes for NT politics right now surprises are coming thick and fast. And just maybe Alison Anderson has taken the trenchant criticisms from her constituents at Ampilatwatja to heart.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention
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Tagged Alice Brennan, Alison Anderson, Ampilatwatja, Barkly Shire Council, Deputy mayor of Alice Springs, John Rawnsley, Mal Brough, NT Intervention Task Force, NT News, Richard Downs, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Sue Gordon, The ABC, The Australian
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August 25, 2009 – 1:39 pm
Gerry Wood only needed to make one deal to maintain Labor in power. If he had supported the CLP there would have been three deals – between Wood and CLP opposition leader Terry Mills, between Mills and Alison Anderson and between Wood and Anderson and the risk of any of those three deals going pear-shaped was substantial.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law
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Tagged Alice Springs Deputy-Mayor, Alison Anderson, Chief Minister Paul Henderson, Electoral Act, Gerry Wood, John Rawnsley, NT Self-Government Act 1978, Terry Mills, The ABC, The Australian, the CLP, the Country Liberal Party, the Labor Party, The NT News, Tom Pauling QC
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August 25, 2009 – 8:41 am
The Australian maintains it’s bizarre position that Alison Anderson was a visionary that could do no wrong and was now a victim of a dastardly conspiracy by a manipulative Gerry Wood and the forces of absolute evil behind NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Writing and writers
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Tagged Alice Brennan, Alison Anderson, Ampilatwatja, Chief Minister Paul Henderson, Crikey, David Curl, Endeavour Consulting, Gerry Wood, Happy Yess, Julian Ricci, Marion Scrymgour, Natasha Robinson, News Limited, Nick Calacouras, Nicolas Rothwell, Nigel Adlam, NT News, Paul Toohey, Richard Downs, The ABC, The Australian, The Presley Boys, VexNews
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August 23, 2009 – 6:00 pm
The most substantial single source of Aboriginal bird knowledge in the mainstream ornithological literature was John Gould’s “Handbook to The Birds of Australia”, published in 1865. I’ve not been able to find a replacement candidate as the primary source – and much of the information contained therein was collected by one of Gould’s collectors, John Gilbert, who was taken from us too soon in 1845 while on a cross-country expedition with Ludwig Leichhardt.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management, Northern development
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Tagged Australian Ornithological Conference 2009, Birds that tell us things, Charles Darwin University, Charles Sturt University, Dhariwaa Elders Group, Dr Dave Watson, Dr Rohan Clarke, John Gilbert, John Gould, Ludwig Leichhardt, Monash University, Myfany Turpin, School for Policy and Social Research
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August 22, 2009 – 11:50 am
These bird sculptures are just about the best bird sculptures I have seen. Made out of the scattered bits of metal that we discard in tips, along the road or just leave to rust where they die, they become a whole lot more than the sum of their parts.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Art, Birds, Birds and people, The Arts
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Tagged Bega, Cobargo, CSIRO Publishing, Merimbula, Pelican, Purple Possum cafe, Ricard Moffat, White-bellied Sea Eagle
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August 21, 2009 – 9:45 am
…the race will be one of the toughest in the world. The Tour will be “one of the most challenging bike races anywhere in the world, probably tougher than the Tour de France”, said Timor Leste’s President, Jose Ramos-Horta.
August 15, 2009 – 7:52 am
Below the fold are two pieces from Crikey yesterday. It is trite indeed to say that it was an “extraordinary day” in Territory politics…over at Club Troppo Ken Parish has written about this matter and makes this comment:
Gerry Wood’s price was more extensive than you suggest. Not only must Henderson remain CM (an extraordinary provision [...]
August 10, 2009 – 9:06 pm
Henderson has held on by the skin of his teeth for a couple of months — but that all went very pear-shaped when ex-Minister Alison Anderson spat the dummy and left Labor in high, and very curious, dudgeon last week.
The north of South Australia has a lot of some things – rocks, sand, caravans etc – and a distinct lack of other things – people, good coffee, humour…except for this little oasis of fun
