Mississippi’s Freedom Trail — markers of murder, memory and struggle
I first visited Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market near the hamlet of Money in Leflore county Mississippi in 2009 with my friend Mark Bonta, who was a professor at the local Delta State University in [...]
Railroad Crossings of the United States
Over the many years I’ve been visiting the United States I have developed a fondness for driving around that vast country, particularly in the magnificent landscapes of the south-west and the cultural and physical geographies [...]
The NT News was right 56 years ago – the NT’s “first citizen” is redundant
The 24th NT administrator, on a soggy day in Darwin. 1 March 2026 The NT News Editorial was pretty blunt. The new administrator was a nice bloke, “a personable man,” but it went on to [...]
Martin Walsh: Myths about Pangolins – and why they matter
This is a (lightly edited) guest post is of a presentation by my friend and colleague Martin Walsh*, given at a Lunchtime Seminar at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge earlier this week that incorporates some [...]
The $1 billion question: Who controls Aboriginal futures?
A guest post by Nigel Browne, CEO of Aboriginal Investment NT It has been just over a fortnight since the Garma Festival, the annual celebration and gathering that showcases Yolngu people, culture and Country. What [...]
The March for Australia: A March Against Us
Patriotism, Outsourced By Andrew Morrison, Gunditjmara 100 per cent AI The March for Australia promises to be the greatest celebration of contradictions since the invention of “Aussie” lamingtons (a New Zealand dessert wrapped in an [...]
Something’s Wrong With the CLP’s Tough Justice Strategy
A guest post by Marion Scrymgour, Member for Lingiari. This post was originally published in the Sunday Territorian on 24 August 2025 and is re-published here with permission. Something is going wrong in the Northern [...]
You can’t handle the truth!
If the NT wants to silence coroners from exposing systemic racism, then the Federal Government must step in. Coroner Elisabeth Armitage (l) and NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro A guest post by George Newhouse* The [...]
‘Munda’
Mandawuy Yunupingu The following is the kind of warm and deeply personal account by Phil O’Brien that can only come from a sustained friendship, in this case with his very good mate, Mandawuy Yunupingu, aka [...]
Chief Minister Dismisses Findings of Institutional Racism in Northern Territory Police Force
A guest post by Paul Gregoire. This article was first published by the Sydney Criminal Lawyers website. Released on 7 July 2025, the 683 page coronial report into the killing of Warlpiri Luritja teenager Kumanjayi Walker by [...]