Category Archives: The Law

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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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.

By Bob Gosford | Also posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, The Northern Myth | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

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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Great Southern on the Tiwi Islands – Timber, Fear, Intimidation and a great tax dodge

May 26, 2009 – 1:07 pm

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 | Also posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

NT’s Keystone Cops trash the Finks MC clubhouse

May 9, 2009 – 12:48 pm

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 | Also posted in Australian politics, NT Police, Stupidity | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Outback Stores takes a dump on confidential Centrelink data at Yuendumu

April 30, 2009 – 4:12 pm

The documents show the Centrelink account balances of many residents of Yuendumu whose welfare payments have been quarantined under the federal indigenous intervention.

By Bob Gosford | Also posted in Australian politics, Stupidity, The NT Intervention, Yuendumu | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Police powers and bikers in the NT – “Trust me I’m a Policeman”

April 29, 2009 – 5:23 pm

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 | Also posted in Australian politics, NT Police, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Ten(?) questions for Martin Hardie

January 12, 2009 – 10:59 am

Martin has the bad back that I should have from too many years of carrying black boxes around.
Martin being back in Geelong reminds me of the last time we were there together – it was sometime in the summer of 1981-82 and we were doing a gig with the Laughing Clowns (he) and The Birthday Party (me) at the Eureka Hotel.

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Why the NT needs an independent Police & Corruption watchdog…Part 1

December 30, 2008 – 5:09 pm

The NT Ombudsman’s Report for 2007/2008 details a pretty good justification why the NT needs a standing Commission to conduct independent investigations of misconduct by the NT Police, politicians and government agencies.

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Web censorship vigilantes rule in the UK…and Australia

December 10, 2008 – 11:32 am

Will the the rise and relentless rise of the web vigilante kill the web and eat its children? Recent developments in the UK indicate that over-reactions by self-appointed cyber-nannys and ISPs can seriously disrupt innocent web use.

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