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.
No-one in NT Chief Minister’s Henderson’s now-marginal, single-seat majority government has the intellectual or moral wit, rigour or vigour to think outside of the prevailing assimilationist paradigm that now runs in Australia’s management of indigenous affairs.
By Bob Gosford
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Tagged Alison Anderson, Centre for Aboriginal Policy Research, indigenous hybrid economy, Jenny Macklin, John Howard, Jon Altman, Lindsay Murdoch, Mal Brough, Mike Dillon, Paul Henderson, Territory Growth Towns, The Age, The Australian, The Fabian Society, Working Future - Remote Service Delivery
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I’m in Burra, South Australia, a town I remember when last I was here for a weird old house out of town and a slate mine.
Now I have another memory to add – at the motel I camped in for the night I had a 2005 bottle of Tim Adams’ The Fergus for under $30 [...]
April 29, 2009 – 10:30 pm
As the ad for this says, Andrew McMillan and I will be at the only independent booksellers – the wonderful Red Kangaroo Books in the Todd Mall in Alice Springs tomorrow evening at about 5.45 pm – depending what time we get in from the airport.
Should be a great time – be there or be [...]
What does distinguish the members of the so-called outlaw motorcycle gangs from the general population are the strong bonds of loyalty and trust between fellow club members in particular and to others that share their lifestyle more generally – some might argue that these are admirable qualities that the rest of us could use more of.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Birds and people
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Tagged Commissioner Paul White, Derek Barry, Dr Arthur Veno, Dr Julie van den Eynde, Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland, Hells Angels Motor Cycle club, High Court of Australia, Ken Parish, Lindsay Murdoch, Moral panics, NT Attorney-General Delia Lawrie, NT Police, OMCGs, Outlaw Motor Cycle Gangs, the ACC, The Age, the Australian Crime Commission, The Blonks Motor Cycle club, the Finks Motor Cycle club, The NT News, Thomas v Mowbray, Woolly Days
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April 16, 2009 – 12:57 am
The NT Writers’ Centre will run the annual Alice Springs Writers Festival, named ‘Eye of the Storm’ in Alice Springs from May 1 to 4 2009.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alice Springs, Eye of the Storm, Jennifer Byrne, Jennifer Mills, Kate Grenville Shane Maloney, Linda Jaivin, NT Writers Centre, Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Shellie Morris
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$5 entry, $3 beer – no fire or liquor licenses or other permits or authorities – and Po’ Monkey vigorously enforces his own strict set of rules – no baseball caps, no guns, no baggy-ass pants – this effectively excludes young teenage gangsters from the lounge – no fighting, no beer bought in and no dope smoking.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts
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Tagged ABC, Bolivar county, Cleveland, Delta State University, DJ candy, Good Morning America, jook joint, Luther Brown, Memphis Tennessee, Merigold, Mississippi delta, New York Times, Po' Monkeys, Poor Monkey's jook joint, Southern Spaces, Willie Seaberry
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Fans of good crime will recall the English translations of most, if not all of the Wallander novels have been available in Australia for the last few years. I hope someone working in the ABC or SBS catches up with these films and buys them for Australian release – by all accounts it is a series well worth watching.
April 11, 2009 – 11:58 am
NT Fisheries Minister Kon Vatskalis told the ABC: “These fishermen, so called fishermen, took the fish out of the water and broke their back and threw them back in the water dead,” he said. “Well, I don’t think that is really playing by the rules.”
By Bob Gosford
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Tagged AFANT, Alfred Cort Haddon, Amateur Fishermans Association of the Northern Territory, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Cambridge Expedition, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Chris Makepeace, Commercial fishermen, DEWHA, Freshwater sawfish, Green sawfish, Haddon Collection, illegal protein miners, Little Finniss River, Mabo - The Native Title Revolution, Minister Kon Vatskalis, NT Government, NT News, Rob Fish, Sawfish, Sawfish dance, Seafood Council
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Margarets has been a work in progress over many years by the Reverend H. D. Dennis who was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1916. The min building has a long verandah fronted by a scattering of signs and sculptures across the front of the block. To one side is a jumbled and half-built, half-wrecked and slowly collapsing tower and an old bus which served, or may still serve, as a Chapel from which the good Reverend H D Dennis preaches.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Fun stuff, Religion, Some places I've been, The Arts
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Tagged Baton Rouge Louisiana, Cleveland Mississippi, folk architecture, Margaret's Grocery & Market. Reverend H D Dennis, Rolling Fork Mississippi, the Delta, UCM Museum, vernacular architecture, Vicksburg Mississippi
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