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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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Writing and writers
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Also 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, Richard Downs, The ABC, The Australian, The Presley Boys, VexNews
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Under the Senate’s spotlight are the arrangements between the Tiwi Land Council and Great Southern, the promoter of broad-acre MIS forestry schemes on the islands that have seen vast swathes of virgin tropical savanna transformed into a monocrop of the fast growing Acacia mangium.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth
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Also tagged ABC News, Acacia mangium, ANU Wild Country Research and Policy Hub, Background Briefing, Charles Darwin University, Communications and the Arts, Dr Ken Eldridge, Great Southern Plantations, Inquiry into forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands, John Hicks, Marion Scrymgour, Matilda Minerals, Melville Island, NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson, NT News, Paul Everingham, PenSyl Ltd, Pentarch Forest Products Ltd, Peter Robertson, Pirntubula Ltd, Professor Brendan Mackey Director, Professor Stephen Garnett, School for Environmental Research, Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Senator Trish Crossin, Stratus Shipping Ltd, Sylvatech, The Australian, Timbercorp, Tiwi Islands, Tiwi Land Council, Wendy Carlisle
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October 14, 2008 – 6:50 pm
I really wanted to like Paul Toohey’s Quarterly Essay 30, Last Drinks – The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention, and I did like it – on the first read, and at a sitting. It read like a punchy crime novel set in the NT and, while I had a number of moments for pause [...]
