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The Ampilatwatja Walkoff and the “wake-up call” for Alison Anderson – an interview with Richard Downs

August 31, 2009 – 4:31 pm

Macklin should resign as Minister – she has no results to show us, she doesn’t – or doesn’t know how to – listen or talk to Aboriginal people – she should go, and the sooner the better: Richard Downs, Alyawarra leader

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention | Also tagged Alyawarra people, Ampilatwatja, Bess Price, Chair NT Indigenous Advisory Council, Dave Price, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Green left Weekly, Interventionwalkoff, Jenny Macklin, Richard Downs, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Warren Mundine | Comments (4)

Alison Anderson HAS finally seen the light, gone bush and joined with the “anti-interventionistas”!!

August 28, 2009 – 3:54 pm

In the weird world that passes for NT politics right now surprises are coming thick and fast. And just maybe Alison Anderson has taken the trenchant criticisms from her constituents at Ampilatwatja to heart.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention | Also tagged Alice Brennan, Ampilatwatja, Barkly Shire Council, Deputy mayor of Alice Springs, John Rawnsley, Mal Brough, NT Intervention Task Force, NT News, Richard Downs, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Sue Gordon, The ABC, The Australian | Comments (2)

At least one good reason why the NT should never be a state…

August 25, 2009 – 1:39 pm

Gerry Wood only needed to make one deal to maintain Labor in power. If he had supported the CLP there would have been three deals – between Wood and CLP opposition leader Terry Mills, between Mills and Alison Anderson and between Wood and Anderson and the risk of any of those three deals going pear-shaped was substantial.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law | Also tagged Alice Springs Deputy-Mayor, Chief Minister Paul Henderson, Electoral Act, Gerry Wood, John Rawnsley, NT Self-Government Act 1978, Terry Mills, The ABC, The Australian, the CLP, the Country Liberal Party, the Labor Party, The NT News, Tom Pauling QC | Comments (11)

The Australian’s version of NT politics – bizarre, misleading & eccentric

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 | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Writing and writers | Also tagged Alice Brennan, 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 | Comments (8)

A new NT Government by Friday — the fix is in

August 10, 2009 – 9:06 pm

Henderson has held on by the skin of his teeth for a couple of months — but that all went very pear-shaped when ex-Minister Alison Anderson spat the dummy and left Labor in high, and very curious, dudgeon last week.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention | Also tagged Gerry Woods, Paul Henderson, Terry Mills | Comments (3)

Roll up, roll up and watch NT Labor eat itself alive

June 5, 2009 – 4:40 pm

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 | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu | Also tagged 7.30 Report, Clare Martin, Crikey, Delia Lawrie, Gerry Woods, Jane Aagard, Marion Scrymgour, Murray McLaughlin, NT News, Paul Henderson, Working Future | Comments (12)

Nicolas Rothwell, The Red Highway launch and “implausible nonsense”

June 4, 2009 – 7:14 pm

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 | Posted in Art, Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Writing and writers | Also tagged 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 | Comments (5)

How Scrymgour and homelands might undo NT Labor

June 2, 2009 – 2:04 pm

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 | Posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The Northern Myth | Also tagged ABC News, 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 | Comments (0)

The NT Government’s “Growth towns” – the desperation of a failed government in a failed state

May 22, 2009 – 7:33 am

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 | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 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 | Comments (23)

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