Australian politics Archives - Page 56 of 58

Miliwanga Sandy – language is our culture, our life, our identity

That policy of speaking English only at school is the wrong thing - it is not good for our children, because if they put, if the children are only taught in English - they will forget their language, and they will lose their identity. They won't know who they are.

By Bob Gosford|2009-06-25T07:48:13+09:30June 25th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention|7 Comments

Roll up, roll up and watch NT Labor eat itself alive

There is the very real possibility that Alison Anderson could follow Scrymgour's lead and walk - not to the cross-benches - but across the Assembly floor to the CLP - gifting government to the CLP's Terry Mills.

By Bob Gosford|2009-06-10T15:23:59+09:30June 5th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention, Yuendumu|13 Comments

Nicolas Rothwell, The Red Highway launch and “implausible nonsense”

Country Liberal Party stalwarts Dave Tollner, John Elferink, Peter Murphy were in attendance, as was of course Terry "the man who may soon be King" Mills, who waxed lyrical about Nicolas's observations of country and his ear for recording conversations.

By Bob Gosford|2009-06-04T19:31:45+09:30June 4th, 2009|Art, Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Writing and writers|5 Comments

How Scrymgour and homelands might undo NT Labor

Henderson's failures are all his own doing, led by a poor set of polices that attack his electoral heartland and a supine surrender to the Federal government's directions -- but he hasn't been helped by the loose cannons rolling around the deck of what passes for the sinking ship of state in the NT.

By Bob Gosford|2009-06-04T17:02:07+09:30June 2nd, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

The NT Intervention, “Working Future” and the myth of evidence-based policy in the NT

Mel James (ABC Stateline): Alison Anderson, this sounds very much like the policy that Mal Brough was proposing. It's exactly the same isn't it? Alison Anderson, Indigenous Affairs Minister NT Government: Oh look, this has been a policy that's been delivered and, um, developed by the Henderson Labor government. It's got nothing to do with Mal Brough whatsoever.

By Bob Gosford|2009-05-28T18:31:27+09:30May 28th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention|3 Comments

Great Southern on the Tiwi Islands – Timber, Fear, Intimidation and a great tax dodge

Under the Senate's spotlight are the arrangements between the Tiwi Land Council and Great Southern, the promoter of broad-acre MIS forestry schemes on the islands that have seen vast swathes of virgin tropical savanna transformed into a monocrop of the fast growing Acacia mangium.

By Bob Gosford|2022-04-05T01:02:39+09:30May 26th, 2009|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|11 Comments

A Letter from Darwin – Sue Stanton’s view of the NT Intervention…and more

Colonialism has an insatiable appetite - it is forever hungry, it can never be satisfied, and it recruits both unwitting as well as willing emissaries from the vast ranks and ever-growing number of colonised Aboriginal people.

By Bob Gosford|2009-05-25T12:05:41+09:30May 25th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, The NT Intervention, Writing and writers|5 Comments

If an MIS fell in the forest…the Timbercorp & Great Southern “industry of greed” in the NT

It is a little too early to tell what the mid-term effects of the collapse of these schemes will have on the viability of what is a valuable and useful agricultural enterprise but it remains to be seen how many of the trees that have been planted will ever be harvested - or just be left to rot in the ground.

By Bob Gosford|2009-05-19T17:50:30+09:30May 19th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|6 Comments

NT’s Keystone Cops trash the Finks MC clubhouse

It is a very rich spin indeed that regards three officers resigning and others having their appointments as Police officers terminated as an exemplar of professional conduct likely to instill public confidence in the integrity of the NT Police force.

By Bob Gosford|2009-05-09T12:50:25+09:30May 9th, 2009|Australian politics, NT Police, Stupidity, The Law|4 Comments

Outback Stores takes a dump on confidential Centrelink data at Yuendumu

The documents show the Centrelink account balances of many residents of Yuendumu whose welfare payments have been quarantined under the federal indigenous intervention.

By Bob Gosford|2009-04-30T16:12:51+09:30April 30th, 2009|Australian politics, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention, Yuendumu|1 Comment