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 [...]
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Australian politics, 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 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, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, 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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September 8, 2009 – 11:26 am
What is it that is so important and special about homelands for their traditional custodians and that underpins the successful outcomes of living in their small communities?
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention
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Tagged Arnhem Weavers, Black Territorians, east Arnhemland, John Greatorex, NT National Emergency Response, Richard Downs, The ABC, the Alyawarra people, Yingiya Guyula, Yolngu peoples
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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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Also posted in Australian politics, 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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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, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, 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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October 28, 2008 – 3:54 pm
“I’ve found a friend!” Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin tells Crikey as she walks arm-in-arm across the dusty main street of Yuendumu with Peggy Nampijinpa Brown.
Jenny and Nampijinpa have just been to visit the several hundred people who have come down from their sorry business at West Camp where they are mourning the recent [...]
October 14, 2008 – 2:07 pm
There are few enough success stories here in the desert, but surely the Kurdu-Kurdu Kurlangu Childcare Centre at Yuendumu must qualify as one of the best. It provides real jobs, and real, accredited national-standard, training, to 14 local women. But maybe not for much longer – it appears that those jobs [...]
October 6, 2008 – 2:23 pm
Local Government elections will be held in the NT on 25 October 2008 for the ten new Councils incorporated following the implementation of the recent Local Government Reforms in the NT. Further information is available at the NT Electoral Commission website. Nominations and ballot paper positions have been settled and are available here.
As I wrote [...]
