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Camp Dog of the week: “Ding” the Dingo Pup

October 29, 2009 – 9:56 am

He must have been a lot more relaxed being held by me because he started eating like crazy and nearly ate my fingers as I was holding the chicken neck! He was very skinny, with bones showing through his skin and I could count all of his ribs..

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Animals, Camp Dog of the week, Dogs, Yuendumu | Also tagged Alice Springs, Ding the Dingo pup, Gloria Morales, RSPCA Alice Springs, Tanami Track, The Granites | Comments (5)

Hell road of the year – the Tanami Track

October 1, 2009 – 2:36 pm

The Shire of Halls Creek is particularly impecunious; it has a very small rating base and few other revenue opportunities…it is responsible for a very large road network that it does not have adequate resources to maintain at an appropriate level…[t]he poor state of the Tanami Road is a serious impediment to providing services of all kinds.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Northern development, The Arts, the Tanami Track | Also tagged central desert shire, Geoff Vivian, Kimberley Page, Lajamanu, Rabbit Flat, the Coyote mine, The Granites, The Tanami Mine, the Tanami Track, Tilmouth Well, Warlayirti Artists | Comments (1)

Roadkill of the week – Yinkardakurdaku, Spotted Nightjar

September 16, 2009 – 8:45 am

To me the call of the Yinkardakurdaku sounds like water flowing out of a narrow-necked bottle, a beautiful succession of fluid sounds ending in an almost joyous, crazy climax.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, Birds, Birds and people, Roadkill, Some places I've been | Also tagged Eurostopodus argus, Spotted Nightjar, Tanami Track, Warlukurlangu Artists, Yinkardakurdaku, Yinkardakurdaku Jukurrpa | Comments (1)

Song poetry about birds from the Pilbara

September 8, 2009 – 10:22 pm

I’m sitting here in the “Balgo Hilton” waiting for someone to come back from where I’ve just been.
We most likely passed each other on the road sometime yesterday as I struggled up the 530 kilometres of the torture that is known as the Tanami Track from Yuendumu up here to Wirrimanu – formerly known as [...]

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, The Arts, Writing and writers | Also tagged A. P. Thomas, Balgo, C. G. Brandenstein, Tanami Track, Taruru : Aboriginal Song Poetry From the Pilbara, the Balgo Hilton, Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre, Wirrimanu | Comments (2)

Sniffing around at the shit-pits: watching birds at the Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds

September 6, 2009 – 6:22 am

Birds, and birders, love shit. Or more particularly in Alice Springs, they both love the fact that in the driest part of the driest continent that the average daily household use of water is a profligate 1,500 litres a day.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people | Also tagged Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds, Birds Australia, Birdwatchers Map and Guide, Broome Bird Observatory, East Asian-Australian Flyway, Power and Water Authority, The Gap | Comments (4)

Life and art in the sky, Part 2: “Ilgarijiri – Things Belonging to the Sky”

September 5, 2009 – 5:59 am

The focus of “Ilgarijiri – things belonging to the sky” is a collaborative project between artists associated with the Wajarri Yamatji region and radio astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), based in Perth, Western Australia.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, The Arts | Also tagged Alma Nungarrayi Granite, Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), by Gemma Merritt, by Sonya Edney, Emu Egg time, Ilgarijiri - things belonging to the sky, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), International Year of Astronomy, Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO), Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), Seven Sisters, Seven Sisters by Margaret Danishewsky, Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Wajarri Yamatji people, Warlukurlangu Artists | Comments (2)

Life and art in the sky, Part 1 – the Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa of Alma Nungarrayi Granites

September 4, 2009 – 6:29 pm

If you are in Alice Springs this weekend you can do a lot worse than go along to the Aralauen Arts Centre and catch the Desert Mob show that will be opening there Sunday – you might be lucky and see one of Nungarrayi’s paintings in the exhibition.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, Birds, The Arts, Yuendumu | Also tagged Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Araluen Arts centre, Bessie Nakamarra Sims, daughter, Desart, Desert Mob, grandaughter, Kingfisher Gallery, Mother, Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters dreaming), Paddy Japaljarri Sims, Paul Kelly, Warlukurlangu Artists, Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa (Star dreaming), Yiwarra - Milky Way Dreaming | Comments (0)

Outback Stores takes a dump on confidential Centrelink data at Yuendumu

April 30, 2009 – 4:12 pm

The documents show the Centrelink account balances of many residents of Yuendumu whose welfare payments have been quarantined under the federal indigenous intervention.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention, Yuendumu | Also tagged ABC News, Centrelink, Lindsay Murdoch, Mr Mark Vegera, Nguru-Walalja Store, NT Intervention, Outback Stores, Privacy Commissioner, Privacy Principles, Remote Community Stores, Sydney Morning Herald, The Big Shop, the Privacy Act, Valerie Napaljarri Martin, Yuendumu Social Club Store Inc, Yuendumu Store | Comments (1)

Bird of the week – Spinifex Pigeon Geophaps plumifera

April 1, 2009 – 12:36 am

Spinifex Pigeons are Australian endemics and superbly adapted to life in the Australian arid zone. Their cryptic plumage means that they blend into the rocky ridges and red soils that are their favoured breeding and foraging habitats.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Birds, Some places I've been, Yuendumu | Also tagged arid zone, Diamond Dove, Geopelia cuneata, Geophaps plumifera, Society of Ethnobiology, Spinifex Pigeons, Tulane University | Comments (1)

Warlukurlangu – taking the desert to (New) Delhi

March 16, 2009 – 5:21 pm

So here we are a few years down the track.. the global economy has crashed, gloom and doom all around and we are spending a bloody fortune going half way around the world to try to flog a few pics…

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, The Arts, Yuendumu | Also tagged Aboriginal art, Anmatyerre, Cecilia Alfonso, Desart, Desert Dreamings, Durga Vishwanthan, Gloria Morales, Mr John McCarthy, New Delhi, Nyirripi, Ormay Nangala Gallagher, Otto Jungarrayi Sims, Taj Mahal, The Indian Habitat Centre, the Open Palm Court Gallery, Warlpiri, Warlukurlangu Artists | Comments (4)

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