October 25, 2009 – 10:55 am
Armadillos make common roadkill due to their habit of jumping to about fender height when startled – such as by an oncoming car.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Ethnoornithology, Photography, Roadkill, Some places I've been, Uncategorized
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Tagged African Elephant Shrew, Arabuko Sokoke Forest, Armadillo, Backwoods Bound, Broad-winged Hawks, HawkWatch International, Kenya, Mercy Njeri, Mississippi Kites, River of Raptors, Solitary Hawk, Swainson's Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Veracruz
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October 21, 2009 – 9:40 am
Every Secret Thing is one of the best books written about life in the Northern Territory since Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia – that’s a pretty big call but I reckon this book is just as funny, brave and deadly serious as that grumpy old curmudgeon’s masterpiece.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Fun stuff, Some places I've been, The Arts
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Tagged central Arnhem Land, David Unaipon Award, Every Secret Thing, Mainoru River, Marie Munkara, NT Literary Awards, Tiwi Islands, University of Queensland Press, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia
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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, Stupidity
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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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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, The Northern Myth
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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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September 8, 2009 – 10:22 pm
I’m sitting here in the “Balgo Hilton” waiting for someone to come back from where I’ve just been.
We most likely passed each other on the road sometime yesterday as I struggled up the 530 kilometres of the torture that is known as the Tanami Track from Yuendumu up here to Wirrimanu – formerly known as [...]
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, The Arts
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Tagged A. P. Thomas, Balgo, C. G. Brandenstein, Tanami Track, Taruru : Aboriginal Song Poetry From the Pilbara, the Balgo Hilton, Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre, Wirrimanu, Yuendumu
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August 25, 2009 – 8:41 am
The Australian maintains it’s bizarre position that Alison Anderson was a visionary that could do no wrong and was now a victim of a dastardly conspiracy by a manipulative Gerry Wood and the forces of absolute evil behind NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics
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Tagged Alice Brennan, Alison Anderson, Ampilatwatja, Chief Minister Paul Henderson, Crikey, David Curl, Endeavour Consulting, Gerry Wood, Happy Yess, Julian Ricci, Marion Scrymgour, Natasha Robinson, News Limited, Nick Calacouras, Nicolas Rothwell, Nigel Adlam, NT News, Paul Toohey, Richard Downs, The ABC, The Australian, The Presley Boys, VexNews
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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.
Over the last few years, Paul Kelly has performed a series of unique shows under the banner ‘A to Z’, whereby he sings 100 songs from his catalogue in alphabetical order over 4 nights.
Country Liberal Party stalwarts Dave Tollner, John Elferink, Peter Murphy were in attendance, as was of course Terry “the man who may soon be King” Mills, who waxed lyrical about Nicolas’s observations of country and his ear for recording conversations.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Australian politics, Northern Territory politics
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Tagged Alison Anderson, Andrew McMillan, Australian Literary Review, Chips Mackinolty, Crikey, Dave Tollner, John Elferink, Malandirri McCarthy, Marion Scrymgour, Nicolas Rothwell, On the Roadhouse, Peter Cochrane, Peter Murphy, Robert Dessaix, St Mary's Star of the Sea, Terry Mills, The Red Highway
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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, The NT Intervention
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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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