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Make Australia Grate Again. Part Two – “Revenge Digs Two Graves, Makes A Young Person Old”

Jacinta Price. Sky News, 7 May 2025 Be careful what you dream on, dreams come trueBe careful what you dream on, they can turn on youRevenge is a dish they say best tasted coldBut revenge digs two graves, makes a young person oldBe careful what you dream of, dreams come truePaul Kelly, Be Careful What [...]

By Bob Gosford|2025-05-11T19:36:33+09:30May 11th, 2025|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Make Australia Grate Again. Part One – Ain’t That A Kick In The Head!

Jacinta Price on Sky News. 7 May 2025 Be careful what you pray for, you just might get itBe careful what you pray for, you might regret itYou get your hands on that glittering prizeNow everybody's coming at you from every sidePaul Kelly, 2008Be Careful What You Pray For Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Price had [...]

By Bob Gosford|2025-05-11T19:31:50+09:30May 11th, 2025|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

“Who me?” Was this the worst election night interview ever?

Starting at about 8.20 pm (NT time) last night the ABC broadcast an interview by Sarah Ferguson and Bridget Brennan with NT Senator Jacinta Price after the Coalition’s devastating – to put it mildly – loss at the 2025 Australian Federal election. Make of the interview what you will but I think it was a [...]

By Bob Gosford|2025-05-04T22:03:03+09:30May 4th, 2025|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth, US Politics|0 Comments

“You come at the king, you best not miss.” ABC Darwin takes a swing at Albanese – and misses

Anthony Albanese at Binjari, NT March 2024 On Saturday just passed ABC Darwin broadcast a piece by local reporter Olivana Lathouris about housing at the small Aboriginal community of Binjari. Binjari is a fly-speck town just off the main road west of Katherine, 300 kilometres south of the Northern Territory’s capital Darwin. The major premise [...]

By Bob Gosford|2025-04-28T23:40:00+09:30April 28th, 2025|Australian politics, Media, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

“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 a guest of Katie Woolf’s on her morning show on Darwin commercial radio MIX104.9FM. Katie Woolf is regarded by some [...]

By Bob Gosford|2025-03-15T22:54:13+09:30March 15th, 2025|Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu|0 Comments

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 to be dumped. The Bill excludes Aboriginal people from involvement in development decisions on their traditional lands and prevents them [...]

By Bob Gosford|2025-03-15T15:17:16+09:30March 12th, 2025|Australian politics, Mining and Resources, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, NT Politics, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

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 ICAC, the NT government and the powerful police union the NT Police Association. Part Two will follow in due course. [...]

By Bob Gosford|2025-10-02T19:48:36+09:30March 11th, 2025|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

“Ambassador” Turnbull stirs Trump’s possum; calls out ‘bipartisan gaslighting’ and getting ‘mugged by reality in a dog-eat-dog world’

Nicolle Wallace and Malcolm Turnbull in March 2024. Image: MSNBC Nicolle Wallace hosts the early evening 90-minute MSNBC show Deadline: White House. Wallace’s Australian talking-head-of-choice appears to be former—as in very former—Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. I’ve been listening to the podcast version of Deadline on and off for the past year or so and don’t [...]

By Bob Gosford|2025-03-03T21:57:06+09:30March 3rd, 2025|Australian politics, Fun stuff, The Northern Myth, US Politics|0 Comments

Why Labor will win the 2024 NT election: A chat with noted psephologist Doctor Advocatus Diaboli

The NT election will be held tomorrow, 24 August 2024. I now reckon that Eva Lawler’s Australian Labor Party (ALP) will squeak back to office with either a one-seat majority or as a minority government with the support of an Independent. That’s not a reckoning shared by most of those I’ve talked to over the [...]

By Bob Gosford|2024-08-23T21:02:58+09:30August 23rd, 2024|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Who’ll win the NT election? Fuck knows …

Bob Gosford reports from Darwin As I noted earlier this year, 2024 will be a big year for elections. Yesterday’s issue of the writ kicked off the NT election on Saturday 24 August that will have ramifications for both major parties at a national level – for Labor to retain its electoral dominance; for the [...]

By Bob Gosford|2024-08-02T21:30:27+09:30August 2nd, 2024|Australian politics, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments