Terry Mills – The Northern Myth

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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, Alison Anderson, Chief Minister Paul Henderson, Electoral Act, Gerry Wood, John Rawnsley, NT Self-Government Act 1978, The ABC, The Australian, the CLP, the Country Liberal Party, the Labor Party, The NT News, Tom Pauling QC | Comments (11)

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 Alison Anderson, Gerry Woods, Paul Henderson | Comments (3)

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 Alison Anderson, 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, The Red Highway | Comments (5)

Marion Scrymgour – picks ‘big stoush’- gets bloody nose

November 28, 2008 – 2:26 pm

Marion Scrymgour is Australia’s most powerful Aboriginal politician who is fighting for her political life as questions are asked about her fitness and capacity to continue as Education Minister.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law | Also tagged COGSO, Department of Education and Training, Margaret Banks, Marion Scrymgour, NT politics | Comments (5)

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