October 25, 2009 – 10:55 am
Armadillos make common roadkill due to their habit of jumping to about fender height when startled – such as by an oncoming car.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Ethnoornithology, Photography, Roadkill, Uncategorized, Writing and writers
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Tagged African Elephant Shrew, Arabuko Sokoke Forest, Armadillo, Backwoods Bound, Broad-winged Hawks, HawkWatch International, Kenya, Mercy Njeri, Mississippi Kites, River of Raptors, Solitary Hawk, Swainson's Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Veracruz
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October 22, 2009 – 7:17 am
By the way, I’m only moving into a different house because my sweetie and I want to buy one together that is truly ‘ours’ if you know what I mean – Roger Stolle, Cathead Music with a new twist on why you’d sell a house
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Fun stuff, Music
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Tagged Cathead Music, Clarksdale, Hernando de Soto, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Quapaw Canoe Company, Quiz-Quiz, Roger Stolle, Sunflower River
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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.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Fun stuff, 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 – 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, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, 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 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.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology
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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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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, Northern development, 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 4, 2009 – 9:50 pm
One time I nearly hit a cow, it was like really close!. I think by now I can distinguish dead cow, dead kangaroo, dead bird – by the smell (laughs). It is not very pleasant…sometimes it it get’s stuck in your nose.
