October 21, 2009 – 9:40 am
Every Secret Thing is one of the best books written about life in the Northern Territory since Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia – that’s a pretty big call but I reckon this book is just as funny, brave and deadly serious as that grumpy old curmudgeon’s masterpiece.
Posted in Fun stuff, Some places I've been, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged central Arnhem Land, David Unaipon Award, Every Secret Thing, Mainoru River, Marie Munkara, NT Literary Awards, Tiwi Islands, University of Queensland Press, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia
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October 20, 2009 – 5:37 pm
Not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries.
October 20, 2009 – 12:03 pm
Last Friday Helen and Mark Hughes put their names to an opinion piece in The Australian entitled Authorities must not wag school.
In short the arguments that the Hughes’ make are that Federal, State and Territory governments abandon their responsibilities to students – particularly remote Aboriginal students – by the stealthy foreshortening of school terms and [...]
Posted in Art, Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, Stupidity, Writing and writers
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Tagged ABC News, Andrew Bolt, Anglicare NT, Ann Buxton, Australian Education Union, central desert shire, Community Festivals for Education Engagement, Garma Festival, Garma Miwatj Youth Forum, Gulkula, Helen Hughes, Homeland Learning Centres, Marion Scrymgour, Mark Hughes, Nadine Williams, National Indigenous Times, Norbert Patrick, NT Education Department, Rowan Foley, Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities, The Australian, Ti-Tree, Yirrkala, Yothu Yindi Foundation
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October 19, 2009 – 7:03 pm
The best fun that Miku has with dead things is with the occasional Cane Toad that she finds squished on the road outside her house. If she finds a newly road-killed Toad she will roll in its remains in an outburst of unalloyed joy…
October 18, 2009 – 10:00 am
From the dim recesses of memory I recall that Mandawuy turned up one night while we were on tour in Sydney with an old battered guitar, a swag of great songs and a keen desire to get them heard by as many people as possible.
Posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, Australian politics, Music, The Arts
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Tagged Australian Story, Balanda, Gove Peninsula, Gunatj, Jimmy Little, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Methodist Missionary Society, Natasha Robinson, Paul Kelly, Rirratjingu, Swamp Jockeys, The Australian, Treaty, Yirrkala
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October 15, 2009 – 8:21 pm
I’m sitting on a verandah at Yirrkala in the north-east of the Northern Territory looking out at one of those smoky-red sunsets that only the Top End can throw up on a hot day in the middle of the build-up to the wet.
October 13, 2009 – 3:27 pm
The first five notes of the Pied Butchebird’s call reminded me very much of “La Cucaracha”…
October 13, 2009 – 1:12 pm
This poor thing had been dragged around the countryside for the best part of 30 years until it finally expired on a dusty, corrugated stretch of road in the centre of Arnhem Land earlier this year.
October 9, 2009 – 10:31 pm
800 kilometres. Or near enough. Enough. Stop. Drink. Shower. Food. Hunter. Sleep. Tomorrow, Tennant Creek – Katherine.
October 6, 2009 – 10:10 pm
This is a story of the Weebill, the Emu, the Porcupine (Echidna) and some Meat Ants and how the Echidna got it’s spines. The story was told by Arthur Dodd, a Yuwaalaraay speaker from the central north-west of New South wales around Walgett.
Posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Some places I've been
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Tagged ABC Radio Morning Show, Alice Brennan, Alice Springs, Bird of the Week, Echidna, Emu, Gamilaraay, Guwaabal, Kamilaroi, Meat Ants, Mindjarru & Bigibila, Pardalotes, Silver-Eyes, small Honeyeaters, Smicrornis brevirostris, Thornbills, Weebills, What Bird am I, Yuwaalaraay
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