October 28, 2009 – 8:20 am
Senator IAN MACDONALD—What is your concern about the Tiwi Islands, from the Tiwi Islanders’ point of view? Dr Ajani—I think they have a product which is not well placed in the play that is going to unfold over the next few years as our hardwood plantation resource comes onto the market.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, Northern development
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Tagged Acacia mangium, Agricultural Development and Marketing Authority, Agricultural Development Corporation, Alan Chase, Communications and the Arts Committee, Department of Infrastructure, Douglas Daly research farms, Dr Ajani Judith, Dr Bruce R. Davidson, E.J. Hosking, Great Southern Group, Great Southern Plantations, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert, Humpty Doo, Humpty Doo rice project, John McDouall Stuart, Land Clearing in the Northern Territory, Liberal Senator for South Australia, Liberal Senator Ian McDonald, Litchfield Shire Council, McGrathNicol, Minister Harold Holt, New York Times, NT Environment Centre, NT Labor Senator Trish Crossin, Planning and Environment, Senate Environment, Simon Birmingham, Territory Rice, The Northern Myth, Tipperary Land Corporation, Tipperary station, Tiwi Forestry, Tiwi Land Council, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Willeroo Station
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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, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention, 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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“The roadside memorial is particularly important because it indicates to us that there is a new way looking at grief and mourning.” Jennifer Clark, UNE.
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, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention, 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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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, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, The Law
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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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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.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The NT Intervention
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Tagged Jenny Macklin, John Tomlinson, Mal Brough, Marion Scrymgour, Mel James, National Indigenous Times, NT Intervention, NT Stateline, Online Opinion, The ABC, the Dodson Report, Working Future, Yu Review
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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
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Also posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Law
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Tagged ABC News, Acacia mangium, ANU Wild Country Research and Policy Hub, Background Briefing, Charles Darwin University, Communications and the Arts, Dr Ken Eldridge, Great Southern Plantations, Inquiry into forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands, John Hicks, Marion Scrymgour, Matilda Minerals, Melville Island, NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson, NT News, Paul Everingham, Paul Toohey, PenSyl Ltd, Pentarch Forest Products Ltd, Peter Robertson, Pirntubula Ltd, Professor Brendan Mackey Director, Professor Stephen Garnett, School for Environmental Research, Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Senator Trish Crossin, Stratus Shipping Ltd, Sylvatech, The Australian, Timbercorp, Tiwi Islands, Tiwi Land Council, Wendy Carlisle
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Roadkill will come in handy when next you run into a Black Kite as it lifts, engorged with rotting flesh and on struggling wings, off a carcass on the roadside – or when you run into a wombat, a snake, a horse…you get the drift.
It is a little too early to tell what the mid-term effects of the collapse of these schemes will have on the viability of what is a valuable and useful agricultural enterprise but it remains to be seen how many of the trees that have been planted will ever be harvested – or just be left to rot in the ground.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been
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Tagged "Managed Investment Scheme", Angus Grigg, Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council, Communications and the Arts Committee, Douglas Daly, Energy Crops Australia, Great Southern Limited, Herron Todd White, Inquiry into forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands, Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan, Michael Pascoe, MIS, Northern Tropical Timber, Plantation Tropical Timbers, Queensland Country Life, Senate Environment, The ABC, The Country Hour, The Financial Review, Timbercorp
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November 22, 2008 – 4:49 pm
“…a poor dried up land afflicted by fever and flies and fit only for a college of monks whose religious zeal might cope with the suffocating heat and musketos which admitted no moment of repose.”
Matthew Flinders describing northern Australia
