I first visited Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market near the hamlet of Money in Leflore county Mississippi in 2009 with my friend Mark Bonta, who was a professor at the local Delta State University in nearby Cleveland at the time. Before that visit I’d not heard much of the brutal murder of Emmett Till and [...]
Mandawuy Yunupingu The following is the kind of warm and deeply personal account by Phil O’Brien that can only come from a sustained friendship, in this case with his very good mate, Mandawuy Yunupingu, aka "Munda." Munda was taken from us by a terrible disease just over 13 years ago at the far-too-young age of [...]
By Phil O’Brien In Part One Phil O’Brien talked about his early days working at the crocodile farm in north-east Arnhem Land and meeting up with the leader of the Yothu Yindi band and the sowing of the seeds for the first Garma Festival. If you haven’t already you can read Part One of this [...]
By Phil O’Brien In the first part of this tale Phil O’Brien introduces us to his early life in north-east Arnhem land, some of the locals – and not-so-locals – and the early days of the Yothu Yindi band and the formation of the Garma Festival. You can read Part two of this tale here [...]
Freightliner "Argosy" – Dunmarra, NT This week's truck is a Freightliner Argosy that I caught up with on a recent road-trip from Darwin to Alice Springs and return. Freightliner is a truck manufacturer based in the US that is said to be the most popular semi-truck in the US, with more than 35 per cent [...]
Jacinta Price. Sky News, 7 May 2025 Be careful what you dream on, dreams come trueBe careful what you dream on, they can turn on youRevenge is a dish they say best tasted coldBut revenge digs two graves, makes a young person oldBe careful what you dream of, dreams come truePaul Kelly, Be Careful What [...]
Jacinta Price on Sky News. 7 May 2025 Be careful what you pray for, you just might get itBe careful what you pray for, you might regret itYou get your hands on that glittering prizeNow everybody's coming at you from every sidePaul Kelly, 2008Be Careful What You Pray For Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Price had [...]
"City Flip Flop in Leather" — $US890 Yeah, you read it right first time. There is a "fashion" retailer in the US that wants you to pay $AU1500 for a pair of flip-flops — what we call "thongs" down here in Oz. OK, so they're made of Italian calfskin leather and they have some nice [...]
After predictions of a dire summer rain-wise in these parts, we've been blessed with a late season monsoon descended on the Top End of the Northern Territory. The NT isn't alone in getting a good drenching this summer, with Cyclone Alfred taking a slow stroll down the east coast and a large, slow-moving tropical system [...]
This review is by a good friend of The Northern Myth, John "The Doctor" Dease. Doc Dease is a retired journalist who lives in Sydney. The first thing to note about Netflix’s manor-house murder mystery The Residence is that it is completely, ridiculously — and refreshingly — off its trolley. Which it probably needed to [...]
