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Bobo Ngarritj!

Bob Gosford This piece was first published in the Northern Land Council’s Land Rights News December 2023 edition and is a tribute to the long-serving member and Chairman of the Northern Land Council Dr Bush-Blanasi, who passed away after a short illness in November 2023. You can read more about Dr Bush-Blanasi’s life at previous [...]

By Bob Gosford|2024-01-02T12:04:14+09:30January 2nd, 2024|Art, Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|Comments Off

TRIBUTES FOR NOTED ADVOCATE

Dr Bush-Blanasi 19-11-1961—12-11-2023 NT News, 14 November 2023 Long-time Northern Land Council chairman and 2023 NT Australian of theYear Dr Bush-Blanasi has passed away aged 61 following a short illness.He was surrounded by members of his extended family when he passedaway at Royal Darwin Hospital on Sunday. Dr Bush-Blanasi was a Yolngu man with country [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-11-14T10:46:20+09:30November 14th, 2023|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|Comments Off

The Swamp. New paintings from Gabbadah by Jane Turner

For various reasons I missed the email from Jane alerting me to the opening of what looks like a great exhibition at the Post Irving gallery in Fremantle, WA. By all accounts the show went off with a bang, with red dots on all of the works within an hour of opening! As the handbill [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-11-13T19:45:49+09:30November 13th, 2023|Art, Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth|Comments Off

Vale Dr Bush-Blanasi 1961 – 2023

Northern Land Council – Statement on the passing of the NLC Chairman, Dr Bush-Blanasi The following is a statement released this morning by the Northern Land Council Today we mourn the loss of Dr Bush-Blanasi. His mother was a Yolngu woman from the Blue Mud Bay region and he was raised by a Mayili man [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-11-13T11:18:08+09:30November 13th, 2023|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Media, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|Comments Off

No batteries required

By Mark Butler* OUR town’s book nook (motto: “Leave a book, take a book, or both. No batteries required.”) is snugly tucked away in the vestibule of the community hall, and was set up by my wife Mary and me not long after we had moved here in 2016. We maintain and curate it, and [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-11-11T21:59:43+09:30November 11th, 2023|Australian politics, Books, FARRAGO, Fun stuff, Media, Poetry, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|Comments Off

The bloke downstairs

By Mark Butler* THERE are two ways to survive while working for a toxic media organisation such as News Corp: either be a fully paid-up member of the team, which means parking your integrity and your soul outside the building, or take drugs. Or both. There may be a third option, but thinking about that [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-09-08T23:22:24+09:30September 8th, 2023|Australian politics, FARRAGO, Media, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|Comments Off

Barbie is a sci-fi horror snuff film. Discuss.

© K Roussos, 2023 This is a guest post by artist, curator and barrister-at-law Koulla Roussos* I watched “Barbie” the other night. I took my mother, sister, nephews and a 5 year-old niece and two friends, and left the cinema with a brain in toxic shock convulsing with mixed messages. It has taken a few [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-09-02T13:49:28+09:30September 2nd, 2023|Art, Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Media, Religion, Stupidity, The Arts, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|Comments Off

My Hong Kong Flying Dream

Koulla, Anna, Eirini Roussos (mum) with Emmanouel, George, & Maria This is a guest post by artist, curator and barrister-at-law Koulla Roussos* Here is a photograph of my first passport pic, taken in 1973. My mother and four siblings a few months before we went on our return trip to Greece. I can remember where [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-08-28T13:43:02+09:30August 28th, 2023|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Law, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|Comments Off

“He just killed mum.” Eleven years on the NT’s triple-0 service is still in the Stone Age

NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage at NT police HQ. Photo: Melissa Mackay, ABC In January 2012 Crikey published a piece I wrote ($) looking at the concerns expressed by an Aboriginal law and justice support group from the about-as-remote-as-you-can-get NT community of Lajamanu—800 kilometres southwest of Darwin and 900 hundred north-west of Alice Springs—in reaction to [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-07-07T11:10:30+09:30July 7th, 2023|Australian politics, Crime, Lajamanu, Media, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention|Comments Off

Lajamanu — NT police communications back to the Stone Age

Concerns about the Northern Territory Police triple-0 communications system have been around for a while. This is a re-post of a piece I wrote for Crikey in January 2012 on problems with police communications in a very remote community in the Northern Territory. To see how little has changed since that time see this piece [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-07-07T10:44:59+09:30July 7th, 2023|Australian politics, Crime, Lajamanu, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|Comments Off