October 28, 2009 – 8:20 am
Senator IAN MACDONALD—What is your concern about the Tiwi Islands, from the Tiwi Islanders’ point of view? Dr Ajani—I think they have a product which is not well placed in the play that is going to unfold over the next few years as our hardwood plantation resource comes onto the market.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, The Northern Myth
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Tagged Acacia mangium, Agricultural Development and Marketing Authority, Agricultural Development Corporation, Alan Chase, Communications and the Arts Committee, Department of Infrastructure, Douglas Daly research farms, Dr Ajani Judith, Dr Bruce R. Davidson, E.J. Hosking, Great Southern Group, Great Southern Plantations, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert, Humpty Doo, Humpty Doo rice project, John McDouall Stuart, Land Clearing in the Northern Territory, Liberal Senator for South Australia, Liberal Senator Ian McDonald, Litchfield Shire Council, McGrathNicol, Minister Harold Holt, New York Times, NT Environment Centre, NT Labor Senator Trish Crossin, Planning and Environment, Senate Environment, Simon Birmingham, Territory Rice, The Northern Myth, Tipperary Land Corporation, Tipperary station, Tiwi Forestry, Tiwi Land Council, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Willeroo Station
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October 26, 2009 – 7:23 am
This is a disaster of not only local, but regional and international proportions. The impending arrival of the seasonal monsoonal cycle in the coming months will substantially change the nature and location of the impact of this massive spill.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Birds, Uncategorized
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Tagged Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), Fairfax Press, Jakarta Post, Kolbano, Pasir Island, PTTEP Australasia, Rote Island, Rote Ndao regency, Senator Bob Brown, South Central Timor, Timor Sea, Toni O'Loughlin, West Atlas, West Timor Care Foundation, World Wildlife Fund Australia, WWF
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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 5, 2009 – 10:58 am
What Rothwell is of course talking about here is localised Aboriginal self-determination, an aspiration that he has frequently condemned to the dustbin of Australian political history: “For some time it has been clear Aboriginal self-determination has had its day.”
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers
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Tagged Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, Indigenous Heritage Program, John Berto, Nicolas Rothwell, Northern Land Council, NT Indigenous Policy Minister Alison Anderson, Thamarrurr Association, Thamarrurr Development Corporation, Thamarrurr Regional Counci, The ABC, The Australian, the Rudd Government, The Weekend Australian, Victoria Daly Shire Council, Wadeye, Warren Snowdon
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October 1, 2009 – 2:36 pm
The Shire of Halls Creek is particularly impecunious; it has a very small rating base and few other revenue opportunities…it is responsible for a very large road network that it does not have adequate resources to maintain at an appropriate level…[t]he poor state of the Tanami Road is a serious impediment to providing services of all kinds.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, The Arts, the Tanami Track
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Tagged central desert shire, Geoff Vivian, Kimberley Page, Lajamanu, Rabbit Flat, the Coyote mine, The Granites, The Tanami Mine, the Tanami Track, Tilmouth Well, Warlayirti Artists, Yuendumu
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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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Also posted in Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management
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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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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.”
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, The Law
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Tagged Auditor-General, Central Land Council, Centrecorp, Finance and Public Administration References Committee, Office of Evaluation and Audit, Senate Community Affairs Committee Supplementary Estimates Hearings, Senator George Brandis, Senator Nigel Scullion, the Alice Springs News
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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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Also posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, 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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Also posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, 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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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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Also posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, 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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