Tag Archives: John Howard

How Canberra keeps the NT’s “rivers of grog” flowing

November 3, 2009 – 10:54 am

in ordinary circumstances under the previous regime, Ms Nudjulu would have been a prime candidate for a custodial sentence. She had previous convictions for possession of alcohol contrary to the Liquor Act – and was currently subject to a suspended sentence.

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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.

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