Someone suggested that we could call this leatherback camp dog “Jenny” as a tribute to Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin – but “Fluffy” is more suited to her undoubted charm and character.
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 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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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 Northern Myth
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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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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, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, 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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November 13, 2008 – 8:51 pm
The traditional relationship between Aboriginal people and dingoes as companions and hunting aides has changed and many communities are have real problems with non-dingo dog health and numbers…but there are some that are really taking steps to do something about these problems…
November 12, 2008 – 1:59 pm
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has labelled the NT intervention safe house initiative a “massive stuff-up.”
15 months after Former Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough’s promise to provide safe houses at part of the NT intervention, not one of the 16 shipping-container based safe houses has opened its door for clients and no staff have been appointed [...]
October 29, 2008 – 1:38 pm
As I walked up the road yesterday morning to get some milk, I spotted Peggy Napaljarri Brown, Jenny Macklin’s best new friend and Valerie Napaljarri Martin sitting in the shade of a tree outside the ramshackle office of the Yuendumu Mining Company. Next to her sat Harry Jakamarra Nelson.
They all have better things to be [...]
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 23, 2008 – 3:37 pm
When Stipendiary Magistrate John Birch’s Court caravan rolled into Yuendumu late last week he bought a new model of the law into town with him. Community Courts, as distinct from the regular Magistrates Court being held in a community, have been around in the Territory since 2005 but until last week had only been active [...]
