Australian politics Archives - Page 55 of 58

Hell road of the year – the Tanami Track

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|2009-10-01T16:37:28+09:30October 1st, 2009|Australian politics, Northern development, The Arts, the Tanami Track|1 Comment

From Ampilatwatja to Warren Mundine: focus on the big picture!

Late last week Warren Mundine, billed as an “Aboriginal leader”, gave Samantha Hawley of the ABC Radio’s PM program his views of the report by UN’s Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Human Rights, Professor James Anaya and his findings that give a damning assessment of the Federal Government’s Intervention in the Northern Territory. Mundine didn’t hold [...]

By Bob Gosford|2009-09-03T10:36:55+09:30September 3rd, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention|7 Comments

The Ampilatwatja Walkoff and the “wake-up call” for Alison Anderson – an interview with Richard Downs

Macklin should resign as Minister - she has no results to show us, she doesn't - or doesn't know how to - listen or talk to Aboriginal people - she should go, and the sooner the better: Richard Downs, Alyawarra leader

By Bob Gosford|2009-09-02T18:56:32+09:30August 31st, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention|4 Comments

Alison Anderson HAS finally seen the light, gone bush and joined with the “anti-interventionistas”!!

In the weird world that passes for NT politics right now surprises are coming thick and fast. And just maybe Alison Anderson has taken the trenchant criticisms from her constituents at Ampilatwatja to heart.

By Bob Gosford|2009-09-20T09:46:23+09:30August 28th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention|3 Comments

At least one good reason why the NT should never be a state…

Gerry Wood only needed to make one deal to maintain Labor in power. If he had supported the CLP there would have been three deals - between Wood and CLP opposition leader Terry Mills, between Mills and Alison Anderson and between Wood and Anderson and the risk of any of those three deals going pear-shaped was substantial.

By Bob Gosford|2009-08-25T13:45:44+09:30August 25th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law|11 Comments

The Australian’s version of NT politics – bizarre, misleading & eccentric

The Australian maintains it's bizarre position that Alison Anderson was a visionary that could do no wrong and was now a victim of a dastardly conspiracy by a manipulative Gerry Wood and the forces of absolute evil behind NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson.

By Bob Gosford|2009-08-25T08:46:06+09:30August 25th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Writing and writers|9 Comments

A new NT Government by Friday — the fix is in

Henderson has held on by the skin of his teeth for a couple of months -- but that all went very pear-shaped when ex-Minister Alison Anderson spat the dummy and left Labor in high, and very curious, dudgeon last week.

By Bob Gosford|2009-08-10T21:06:57+09:30August 10th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention|3 Comments

Branding the blacks – a “community of thieves” and the tyranny of terminology

Until we give back to the black man just a bit of land that was his and give it back without provisos, without strings to snatch it back, without anything but complete generosity of spirit in concession for the evil we have done him - until we do that, we shall remain what we have always been so far: a community of thieves - Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country.

By Bob Gosford|2018-01-14T16:25:10+09:30July 7th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention|60 Comments

The Senate, the Alice Springs News and Centrecorp – a “multitude of factual errors and distortions”

As the Alice Springs News says: "a dossier of Alice Springs News reports was a substantial part of the briefing NT Senator Nigel Scullion gave Senator Brandis."

By Bob Gosford|2009-09-20T11:34:15+09:30June 29th, 2009|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, The Law|1 Comment

Miliwanga Sandy Interview Part 2: “This is our country…and we shouldn’t be treated like slaves!”

We've lived here longer than anyone - this is our country and we should have the same freedoms, rights as anyone else. Why should we be treated any different from anyone else just because of the colour of our skin and where we live?

By Bob Gosford|2009-06-25T21:36:57+09:30June 25th, 2009|Australian politics, The Law, The NT Intervention|1 Comment