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Voter suppression in Australia’s deep north?

Last week two Aboriginal men—Matthew Ryan and Ross Mandi—filed a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission (the AHRC) against the Australian Electoral Commission (the AEC) alleging that the AEC has effectively suppressed the Aboriginal vote in remote areas in the Northern Territory.

By Bob Gosford|2022-07-18T23:10:58+09:30June 21st, 2021|Australian politics, Media, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention|0 Comments

How good was racism in the ’70s and ’80s! A short history of bigotry in the Northern Territory

Keep Australia Clean (Kill a Coon); If Abos want land they should buy the bastard the same as the whites do. They have no rights to any land whatever. If they don’t want to work under our system – let ‘em starve; People with black legs won’t be served; and Buy some Coon cheese today for catching black mice: Noticeboard, Daly Waters Hotel, 1978.

By Bob Gosford|2025-07-15T11:40:20+09:30April 28th, 2021|Australian politics, Crime, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, Racism, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

“We, the leaders of the Gurindji people …” On This Day, 1967

It was not until 16 August 1975 that negotiations with Vesteys, owners of the Wave Hill lease, were completed, and the lease for the Gurindji tribal land at Wattie Creek was handed to Vincent Lingiari, leader of the Gurindji.

By Bob Gosford|2021-04-19T10:00:15+09:30April 19th, 2021|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Finding Lost Mudburra Art. Part One

Not a lot has changed since I last looked at Elliott/Kulumindini six years ago—it is still stuck in an administrative worm hole. Services from all levels of government fall between the jurisdictional cracks often because Elliott is equidistant from the major Northern Territory service and administrative centres of Darwin and Alice Springs.

By Bob Gosford|2020-12-22T20:50:43+09:30December 22nd, 2020|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, Australian politics, Birds, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

‘They took our culture – now there is no law’

It was late November 2010, one of those red-hot November days that only the Western Desert can turn on. Over six hundred people travelled for days from far and wide to bury young Jampijinpa at the small town of Nyirripi, a four-and-a-half hour dusty drive west from Alice Springs on rough dirt roads.

By Bob Gosford|2024-03-06T18:16:35+09:30October 3rd, 2020|AFL, Australian politics, Crime, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Religion, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu|0 Comments

One night in K-Town: a den of iniquity, Shakespeare’s rose, police incompetence and a cheeky trouble-maker who was “no Jack The Ripper”

It is a matter of some sadness to the Court to have been involved in a matter which has so many unsatisfactory and unsavoury actions of the police force of the Northern Territory ... It may be that the defendant can be described as a serial pest. He may be provocative and cheeky and a trouble causer. He is 19 years old. He is not Jack the Ripper.

By Bob Gosford|2023-03-19T16:26:01+09:30August 29th, 2020|Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, NT Police, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Jack Ah Kit. Inaugural speech to the NT Legislative Assembly. 10 October 1995

I am aware that it is not normal in a maiden parliamentary speech to raise contentious issues, but these are not normal times. Let us talk about traditions. Let us look at the traditions of the Country Liberal Party and the people who run it. These people know their traditions well and the most hallowed of them is to raise issues of race at every possible opportunity, and there is no better opportunity than at election time.

By Bob Gosford|2020-07-13T21:34:27+09:30July 13th, 2020|Australian politics, Media, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 10 – Prime Minister Paul Keating’s Redfern Park Speech, 10 December 1992

There is one thing today we cannot imagine. We cannot imagine that the descendants of people whose genius and resilience maintained a culture here through fifty thousand years or more, through cataclysmic changes to the climate and environment, and who then survived two centuries of dispossession and abuse, will be denied their place in the modern Australian nation. We cannot imagine that. We cannot imagine that we will fail.

By Bob Gosford|2024-02-16T17:02:16+09:30May 27th, 2020|Australian politics, Essential Documents, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Sacred cows in a bloody class action: Brett Cattle Company v The Commonwealth

All up the bill for lawyers alone in the Brett Cattle Company matter might be $12 million plus loose change and walking around money.

By Bob Gosford|2020-06-02T07:08:40+09:30May 27th, 2020|Animals, Australian politics, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Constable David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman. Part 5. “All I have is a crusade”

“We must remove white police from the aboriginal reserves – and we must tell the black man: 'Don’t you leave your reserve all you will be subject to the white man’s law'. David Jennings, November 1978

By Bob Gosford|2023-03-31T06:24:23+09:30December 15th, 2019|Australian politics, Crime, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments