My Hong Kong Flying Dream

Koulla, Anna, Eirini Roussos (mum) with Emmanouel, George, & Maria This is a guest post by artist, curator and barrister-at-law Koulla Roussos* Here is a photograph of my first passport pic, taken in 1973. My mother and four siblings a few months before we went on our return trip to Greece. I can remember where [...]

By |2023-08-28T13:43:02+09:30August 28th, 2023|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Law, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|Comments Off on My Hong Kong Flying Dream

Are we there yet? Art Gallery of the Month – Burra Regional Art Gallery, SA

Denise Officer. Tanked. Pitcairn Station SA (2023) Are we there yet? takes its name from the incessant question from kids in the back of the car; the upcoming referendum; and/or from Ithaka, a poem by the distinguished Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. Are we there yet? features the work of three artists based in and [...]

By |2023-08-24T18:03:54+09:30August 24th, 2023|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, Fun stuff, Poetry, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|Comments Off on Are we there yet? Art Gallery of the Month – Burra Regional Art Gallery, SA

Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 11 – The Barunga Declaration – June 2023

In June 2023 the four Northern Territory Aboriginal land councils met to sign the Barunga Declaration which addresses all Australians and urges them to support a Voice to Parliament. More than 200 representatives of the Northern, Central, Tiwi and Anindilyakwa land councils gathered on the traditional lands of the Bagala clan group at Barunga, south-east [...]

By |2024-02-16T17:03:01+09:30June 23rd, 2023|Australian politics, Essential Documents, Fun stuff, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|Comments Off on Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 11 – The Barunga Declaration – June 2023

A fantasy weather competition for the Top End?

Photo: University of Arizona Recent news that the good folks at the University of Arizona’s Institute for Resilience have extended their Southwest Monsoon Fantasy Forecast game for a third year got me thinking about how a local fantasy weather competition based on Top End weather might work. After all, Australia’s Top End has—arguably—some of the [...]

By |2023-06-23T19:45:19+09:30June 23rd, 2023|Ethnoornithology, Fun stuff, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth, Weather|Comments Off on A fantasy weather competition for the Top End?

“Take my wife … please!”* The Haunted Smile: The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America.

The Haunted Smile traces the rise to dominance of Jewish comedy through successive mediums, beginning with Vaudeville, then radio, talking pictures and television, with side trips to the Borscht Belt and stand-up comedy venues across the nation.

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.

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.

Too smart by half at the Sunday Terror – the Berrimah Line still rules …

To set the record straight - there is no "Marion Dam" at Tennant Creek. There is however, a "Mary Ann Dam" (known as Tingkkarli to the Warumungu traditional owners and native title custodians) situated just through the gap north of the town. Construction commenced in 1979 and Mary Ann Dam was opened by local MLA (and later NT Chief Minister) Ian Tuxworth in 1981.

Constable David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman. Part 3. Taking PR advice from the Klan

"Territory Ku Klux Klansman, David Jennings, has been advised by his American counterparts on how to use even an unwilling press to get his message across. David Jennings resigned from the Northern Territory Police Force last week, one day before he was due to face internal hearing on charges relating to claims of Ku Klux Klan activity in the Territory."

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