October 24, 2009 – 5:23 pm
“spastic c**t”; “stupid f**king idiot”; “god, he f**king stinks”; “shut your face.”; “dumb f**k”; “f**king loser”; “d**khead over there”; “… no brain”; “f**king retard”; “piece of s**t that he is”; “you f**king wanker”; shut the f**k up”
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Crime, NT Police, Northern Territory politics, The Law
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Tagged Bruce Wernham, Carolyn Richards, Glen Dooley, NAAJA, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, Northern Territory's Acting Police Commissioner, NT Ombudsman, NT Police, NT Police Statement of Ethics, The ABC
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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 [...]
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, 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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The folks over at the oddly named spellr.us really do have a point – if the biggest and brightest universities can’t get it right – who is left that we can trust? Governments? Though you would think that spellr.us would at least have a typo-free public face.
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.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu
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Tagged 7.30 Report, Alison Anderson, Clare Martin, Crikey, Delia Lawrie, Gerry Woods, Jane Aagard, Marion Scrymgour, Murray McLaughlin, NT News, Paul Henderson, Working Future
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It is a very rich spin indeed that regards three officers resigning and others having their appointments as Police officers terminated as an exemplar of professional conduct likely to instill public confidence in the integrity of the NT Police force.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, NT Police, The Law
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Tagged Club Troppo, Dylan Welch, Ken Parish, NT police Commissioner Paul White, OMCGs, Sydney Morning Herald, Tara Ravens, The Finks MC, The Northern Territory News
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Maybe instead of blaming the animals we should be saying “I committed a murder of a kangaroo today”, “I was driving too fast to let the Wedge-tailed Eagle get enough height to get off the roadway” or “I didn’t slow down to let that Goanna cross the road safely”.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Art, Birds, Some places I've been, Writing and writers
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Tagged Alice Springs Writers' Festival, Jennifer Mills, Mary Anne Butler, Narelle Autio, Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Richard J Franklin, Roadkill, Shane Maloney, Swamp Jockeys, World Press Photo Award
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Magistrate Loadman said “[I am] not prepared to make the decision on the basis of statements by police officers, this smacking of that hoary old chestnut, “trust me I’m a lawyer” in this case “trust me I’m a policeman”. We do not any longer have courts functioning in the manner of the Star Chamber.”
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, NT Police, Northern Territory politics, The Law
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Tagged Blonks MC, Commissioner Paul White, Darwin River, Detective Sergeant Jamie Andrew Chalker, Finks MC, Hells Angels MC, Howard Springs, Johnson and Murphy, Justice Steve Southwood, Magistrate David Loadman, NT Associations Act, NT Police, NT Police Media Unit, Paul Anthony Johnson, R v Dunkerton, R v Johns, R v Knight, Wills and Eaton
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December 29, 2008 – 2:51 pm
China is not a good place to be a bird…The Li men jostle to sell me supper, all of it live: white-breasted waterhens, little egrets, a black-crowned night heron and a spot-billed duck, the only duck where male and female look alike.
