Darwin’s Lee Point and the NIYBY’s (Not In Your Back Yard)
The recent news – see the grab below – that a group of southern Fly-In-and then later Fly-Out workers were threatening not to return to work in the Northern Territory was met with entirely predictable [...]
Keith Olbermann on O.J. Simpson: “He’s dead now, and it is times like these I hope that there really is a hell”
The O.J. Simpson known to the public, to TV audiences, movie audiences, sports audiences, was an utter fabrication. I knew he had hit his wife.
Meshell Ndegeocello, Factory Theatre, Sydney. 25th March 2024
Meshell Ndegeocello has been on my mind since her side-shows in Sydney and Melbourne were announced ahead of two dates at Bluesfest in Byron Bay. You couldn’t get me to Bluesfest if you paid me [...]
Meshell Ndegeocello reckons the world would be a better place if Dolly Parton were President!
Meshell Ndegeocello was at her go-to repository of auditory delights—Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles last October showing off her tote bag of goodies as part of their irregular, funny and revealing "Whats [...]
The NT News. The slow death of a once valued journal of record.
The first image on this post is today’s front page of the NT News. Below that is page 90, the back page of the same edition. Local, National and International reporting, The Neddies and Advertising [...]
Joe Martin-Jard’s term as Northern Land Council Chief Executive Officer ends (updated*)
By Media Release earlier today the Northern Land Council (NLC) advised in relation to the employment of the Chief Executive Officer, Joe Martin-Jard, that: The Northern Land Council has announced that Chief Executive Officer (CEO) [...]
Ethnoornithology at St Louis Missouri, April 2024
Regular readers will know that I’ve been attending—and presenting—at various meetings of different ethnobiological and related associations over the past two decades, starting with Australasian Ornithological Conferences as far back as 2001 and (fairly) regularly [...]
Horse Trank and friends. Darwin Railway Club, 23 February 2024
A couple weeks back I had a night out at Darwin's Railway Club with three young women hitting strings and skins and a coupla bunches of old(er) blokes doing the same but without a pair [...]
Andy Albury: “I will kill again—it is what I do … ”
Part Two: The Queen v Albury [2004] NTSC 59 Andy Albury interviewed by NT Police This is Part Two of a series examining recent developments in the indefinite incarceration of convicted murderer Andy Albury. You [...]
The Police can be a force for good—but guns are part of the problem, not a solution
NT police issue Glock 22, .40 calibre This Musical Dispatch from the Front is a guest post by my old—in both senses of that word—friend Frank Baarda,* a long-term resident of Yuendumu. Greetings, This is [...]