Category Archives: Northern Territory politics

At least one good reason why the NT should never be a state…

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.

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The Australian’s version of NT politics – bizarre, misleading & eccentric

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.

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A new NT Government by Friday — the fix is in

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.

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Branding the blacks – a “community of thieves” and the tyranny of terminology

July 7, 2009 – 3:14 pm

Until we give back to the black man just a bit of land that was his and give it back without provisos, without strings to snatch it back, without anything but complete generosity of spirit in concession for the evil we have done him – until we do that, we shall remain what we have always been so far: a community of thieves – Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country.

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

June 29, 2009 – 4:41 pm

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

June 25, 2009 – 7:48 am

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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Roll up, roll up and watch NT Labor eat itself alive

June 5, 2009 – 4:40 pm

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.

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Nicolas Rothwell, The Red Highway launch and “implausible nonsense”

June 4, 2009 – 7:14 pm

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.

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How Scrymgour and homelands might undo NT Labor

June 2, 2009 – 2:04 pm

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.

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The NT Intervention, “Working Future” and the myth of evidence-based policy in the NT

May 28, 2009 – 1:49 pm

Mel James (ABC Stateline): Alison Anderson, this sounds very much like the policy that Mal Brough was proposing. It’s exactly the same isn’t it?
Alison Anderson, Indigenous Affairs Minister NT Government: Oh look, this has been a policy that’s been delivered and, um, developed by the Henderson Labor government. It’s got nothing to do with Mal Brough whatsoever.

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