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White trash – and proud of it!

November 19, 2008 – 2:17 pm

There has been a lot of talk about white trash in the press over the past few days and most of it bad – but I’m proud to be called white trash – but white trash made good – maybe.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Worst road in the world?…Australia? The Tanami Road

October 31, 2008 – 6:53 pm

WARNING – this road eats cars…and trucks…and road trains…and caravans…and just about everything else that travels across it!!
The Tanami Road/Track/Highway (take your pick) runs for just over 1,000 kilometres from just north of Alice Springs in the NT through to Halls Creek in WA. The first 200 kilometres to the crossing at the dry-as-a-bone-at-this-time-of-year Napperby [...]

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Some places I've been, Yuendumu | Also tagged , , , | Comments (8)

Court day in Yuendumu Part 2 – The Community Court caravan rolls into town

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 [...]

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, The Law, The NT Intervention, Yuendumu | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Same-sex marriage – Laysan Albatross style

October 5, 2008 – 11:45 am

I first came across this story a few weeks ago at the 12th Pan-African Ornithological Congress outside of Cape Town in South Africa where Professor Peter Ryan of the University of Cape Town referred to it in a plenary speech. I note that it has received some early attention elsewhere but that there had been [...]

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Birds | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (1)