October 21, 2009 – 9:40 am
Every Secret Thing is one of the best books written about life in the Northern Territory since Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia – that’s a pretty big call but I reckon this book is just as funny, brave and deadly serious as that grumpy old curmudgeon’s masterpiece.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Fun stuff, Some places I've been, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Also tagged central Arnhem Land, David Unaipon Award, Every Secret Thing, Mainoru River, Marie Munkara, NT Literary Awards, University of Queensland Press, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia
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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, Paul Toohey, 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 Land Council, Wendy Carlisle
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September 26, 2008 – 5:41 pm
I gave up on hate as a waste of time many years ago and it is a very rare moment now that I can be bothered to even strongly dislike someone. Contempt and pity rise a little more easily but are still occasional pleasures. And I don’t like seeing small furry animals in pain and [...]
