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.
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
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu
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Also tagged 7.30 Report, Alison Anderson, Clare Martin, Crikey, Delia Lawrie, Gerry Woods, Jane Aagard, Marion Scrymgour, Murray McLaughlin, NT News, Working Future
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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
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Posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The Northern Myth
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Also tagged ABC News, Alison Anderson, Community Engagement Report, Lindsay Murdoch, Mal Brough, Marion Scrymgour, Murray McLaughlin, Pat Dodson, The 7.30 Report, The Age, The Australian, Working Futures
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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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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged Alison Anderson, Centre for Aboriginal Policy Research, indigenous hybrid economy, Jenny Macklin, John Howard, Jon Altman, Lindsay Murdoch, Mal Brough, Mike Dillon, Territory Growth Towns, The Age, The Australian, The Fabian Society, Working Future - Remote Service Delivery
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February 21, 2009 – 8:03 am
“Our seven-year olds can’t learn everything in English! The teacher will be saying “Blah Blah”and the children will be saying “Nha, Nha?”. That is not good learning.” – Djuwalpi Marika, Yirrkala
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics
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Also tagged Bilingual education, David Nash, Djuwalpi Marika, Friends of Bilingual Learning, Malarndirri McCarthy, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Marion Scrymgour, NAPLAN tests, NT Department of Education, NT Education, Rarriwuy Marika, Yalmay Yunupingu, Yirrkala CEC, Yolngu, Yothu Yindi
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February 6, 2009 – 3:25 pm
I’m sure there are some who’d believe Hendo’s assertion that he reshuffled his Ministries because of the GFC – but they are most likely face down in a gutter and barely breathing.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Uncategorized, Yuendumu
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Also tagged Bilingual education, Cecily Napanangka Granites, English as a Second Language, Jeannie Nungarrayi Egan, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Marion Scrymgour, NT Education, World Indigenous Peoples Conference, Yalmay Yunupingu, Yothu Yindi
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