“A $1500 pair of flip-flops?” (NOT an April Fool’s Day joke)
"City Flip Flop in Leather" — $US890 Yeah, you read it right first time. There is a "fashion" retailer in the US that wants you to pay $AU1500 for a pair of flip-flops — what [...]
Monsoon under glass. Darwin, March 2025
After predictions of a dire summer rain-wise in these parts, we've been blessed with a late season monsoon descended on the Top End of the Northern Territory. The NT isn't alone in getting a good [...]
The Residence: completely, ridiculously and refreshingly off its trolley
This review is by a good friend of The Northern Myth, John "The Doctor" Dease. Doc Dease is a retired journalist who lives in Sydney. The first thing to note about Netflix’s manor-house murder mystery [...]
“There’s 500 more people in prison … and that’s a good thing.” NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro, 10 March 2025
On Monday last – in the midst of an unprecedented leadership crisis in the NT police force and with corrections and the justice system descending into chaos – the NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro was [...]
NT Land Councils call on NT Government to bin Territory Coordinator Bill
A joint media release by the Northern, Central, Tiwi and Anindilyakwa Aboriginal Land Councils issued earlier today, 12 March 2025 The Northern Territory’s four land councils have united in calling for the Territory Coordinator Bill [...]
The Gumatj prevail in the High Court!
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA v YUNUPINGU (ON BEHALF OF THE GUMATJCLAN OR ESTATE GROUP) & ORS 2025 HCA 6 The following is a summary of the landmark native title compensation case that was provided by the [...]
Dear Police Commissioner Murphy: “Better get a lawyer, son … better get a real good one”
Part Two – Michael Murphy, the Voldemort clause, the Police Union & the NT ICAC This is Part Two of an article examining recent events involving the NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, the NT ICAC, [...]
Dear Police Commissioner Murphy: “Better get a lawyer, son … better get a real good one”
Part One – Michael Murphy and the battle against racism in the NT Police This is Part One of a two part article examining recent events involving the NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, the NT [...]
From Cyclone Tracy to Cyclone Alfred – Glenn Campbell’s life as an ‘Accidental Cyclone Tourist’
Photojournalist Glenn Campbell was covering Cyclone Alfred and called me just before he evacuated from Lismore yesterday afternoon. As ever he’s good for a yarn and yesterday he told me a few tales from a [...]
‘He dropped his trousers and farted in my face’ – why Lionel Curtis killed Mo McNaught at the Adelaide River Inn
It was a hot Friday night in October 1979 and a construction crew were well into a session at the Adelaide River Inn, 100 kilometres or so south of Darwin in the Northern Territory, then [...]