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Sun sets on NT edition of the Rural Weekly.

Over its four years, Rural Weekly NT emphasised news and views from the pastoral, mining, agriculture, land management and conservation sectors. Politically, it covered the 2016 election loss of former Chief Minister Adam Giles and the rise of Labor’s Michael Gunner. But other issues also rose to the fore, matters deeply affecting those in the bush, including health services, especially mental health and youth suicide, as well as the wind-down of the Inpex project, the impacts of climate change and the potential hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) of the Territory’s gas reserves.

By Bob Gosford|2018-12-16T12:47:32+09:30December 16th, 2018|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Media, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|0 Comments

What do the film Sweet Country, Warlpiri kinship and Johnny Cash’s “Peace in the Valley” have in common? Frank Baarda explains.

Everyone has others one is obligated to (has to care for) and others who care for one. No man or woman is an Island. ‘Skin’ classification guides the nature and intensity of relationships. A feature of the system that appeals to many ‘westerners’ is “mother in law avoidance” In former stricter times it was absolutely forbidden for one’s mother-in-law to be addressed or to be in the same room. It still happens that someone might wait outside a shop because “there is no room”.

By Bob Gosford|2024-01-24T19:58:04+09:30December 16th, 2018|Fun stuff, Religion, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu|0 Comments

A new literary journal for the Northern Territory: The Borderlands project

Literary journals are an important component of Australia's literary culture and can help to foster a range of Indigenous, non-indigenous and multicultural voices. However, the Northern Territory has no such platform, and its lack is a significant shortfall in the artistic lives of Territorians.

By Bob Gosford|2018-11-10T12:46:02+09:30November 10th, 2018|Fun stuff, Media, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|0 Comments

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” 40 years on Sidney Lumet’s Network is a film for our times

'I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’: Peter Finch as Howard Beale, Network

By Bob Gosford|2018-11-10T08:17:50+09:30November 10th, 2018|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|0 Comments

The NT’s judicial pea and thimble trick. With added “administrative oversight”

Notwithstanding my earlier invocation of this affair as an example of the application of the Loftus Rule, i.e. a SNAFU of magnificent proportions, it is now clear we've never seen a shemozzle like this before in the NT or elsewhere. Hopefully we won't ever see its like again ...

By Bob Gosford|2018-11-10T09:02:57+09:30October 31st, 2018|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Call for Papers – Ethnoornithology symposium at AOC 2019, Darwin 3 – 5 July 2019

Ethnoornithology is the study of the relationship between people and birds, and in recent years the field has emerged as a valuable source of ethnobiological research. Ethnoornithology provides an opportunity to empower people of all cultures to discover, re-examine and preserve the connections between individuals, groups and cultures and the birds that they hunt, venerate and cherish.

By Bob Gosford|2018-10-16T07:09:34+09:30October 16th, 2018|Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Fun stuff, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

“I hate to disappoint!” Genevieve McGuckin on Spencer P. Jones 1956 – 2018

I was lucky enough to know this charming funny and generous man who made incredible music, and who had a way of making me feel pretty damn special. Spencer was like a kid with a lolly jar around music and I found that irresistible in a man who’d written and played some of my all time favourite songs: Genevieve McGuckin on Spencer P Jones

By Bob Gosford|2023-04-10T12:00:26+09:30August 25th, 2018|Art, Fun stuff, Media, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Chris Wilson – the “Gentleman of Australian Blues” needs you

I’ve been thinking about Chris Wilson a lot since I learned of his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. It’s very sad I probably won’t hear him play again, won’t get to watch him own a stage and destroy a room again. But I’ve been so very lucky to have these memories and many others to carry with me as fuel: Jeff Lang

By Bob Gosford|2024-08-02T19:58:18+09:30August 23rd, 2018|Art, Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Aretha and me. Jane Clifton on losing your nerve and finding your own voice

Aretha made me go looking for my own voice, whatever that was, no matter how white, how weedy, and I thank her for that and for so much more.

By Bob Gosford|2018-08-21T07:05:12+09:30August 21st, 2018|Art, Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Think you know what the world’s most dangerous job is? You’re dead wrong …

World Ranger Day is celebrated at functions worldwide on July 31st to commemorate Rangers killed or injured in the line of duty and to celebrate the work Rangers do to protect the planet’s natural treasures and cultural heritage.

By Bob Gosford|2018-07-31T19:43:55+09:30July 31st, 2018|Animals, Fun stuff, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments