October 24, 2009 – 5:23 pm
“spastic c**t”; “stupid f**king idiot”; “god, he f**king stinks”; “shut your face.”; “dumb f**k”; “f**king loser”; “d**khead over there”; “… no brain”; “f**king retard”; “piece of s**t that he is”; “you f**king wanker”; shut the f**k up”
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Crime, NT Police, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity, The Law
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Also tagged Bruce Wernham, Carolyn Richards, Glen Dooley, NAAJA, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, Northern Territory's Acting Police Commissioner, NT Ombudsman, NT Police, NT Police Statement of Ethics
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October 5, 2009 – 10:58 am
What Rothwell is of course talking about here is localised Aboriginal self-determination, an aspiration that he has frequently condemned to the dustbin of Australian political history: “For some time it has been clear Aboriginal self-determination has had its day.”
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers
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Also tagged Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, Indigenous Heritage Program, John Berto, Nicolas Rothwell, Northern Land Council, NT Indigenous Policy Minister Alison Anderson, Thamarrurr Association, Thamarrurr Development Corporation, Thamarrurr Regional Counci, The Australian, the Rudd Government, The Weekend Australian, Victoria Daly Shire Council, Wadeye, Warren Snowdon
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September 8, 2009 – 11:26 am
What is it that is so important and special about homelands for their traditional custodians and that underpins the successful outcomes of living in their small communities?
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Art, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention
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Also tagged Arnhem Weavers, Black Territorians, east Arnhemland, John Greatorex, NT National Emergency Response, Richard Downs, the Alyawarra people, Yingiya Guyula, Yolngu peoples
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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
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention
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Also tagged Alice Brennan, Alison Anderson, 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 Australian
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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
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law
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Also tagged Alice Springs Deputy-Mayor, Alison Anderson, Chief Minister Paul Henderson, Electoral Act, Gerry Wood, John Rawnsley, NT Self-Government Act 1978, Terry Mills, The Australian, the CLP, the Country Liberal Party, the Labor Party, The NT News, Tom Pauling QC
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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, Paul Toohey, Richard Downs, The Australian, The Presley Boys, VexNews
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Mel James (ABC Stateline): Alison Anderson, this sounds very much like the policy that Mal Brough was proposing. It’s exactly the same isn’t it?
Alison Anderson, Indigenous Affairs Minister NT Government: Oh look, this has been a policy that’s been delivered and, um, developed by the Henderson Labor government. It’s got nothing to do with Mal Brough whatsoever.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The NT Intervention, The Northern Myth
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Also tagged Jenny Macklin, John Tomlinson, Mal Brough, Marion Scrymgour, Mel James, National Indigenous Times, NT Intervention, NT Stateline, Online Opinion, the Dodson Report, Working Future, Yu Review
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It is a little too early to tell what the mid-term effects of the collapse of these schemes will have on the viability of what is a valuable and useful agricultural enterprise but it remains to be seen how many of the trees that have been planted will ever be harvested – or just be left to rot in the ground.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth
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Also tagged "Managed Investment Scheme", Angus Grigg, Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council, Communications and the Arts Committee, Douglas Daly, Energy Crops Australia, Great Southern Limited, Herron Todd White, Inquiry into forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands, Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan, Michael Pascoe, MIS, Northern Tropical Timber, Plantation Tropical Timbers, Queensland Country Life, Senate Environment, The Country Hour, The Financial Review, Timbercorp
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September 26, 2008 – 1:39 pm
B R Davidson’s book “The Northern Myth” was first published in 1965 and set out to dispel the then popular belief that tropical Australia could be transformed into a magical land of milk and honey from which boundless agricultural wealth would flow.
Davidson’s book should be mandatory reading for any contemporary politician who puts “the north”, [...]
