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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

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.

By Bob Gosford|2020-05-31T10:43:20+09:30May 31st, 2020|Fun stuff, Media, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth, Uncategorized, Writing and writers|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

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."

By Bob Gosford|2023-03-30T16:42:33+09:30December 14th, 2019|Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Constable David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman. Part 2: From KKK “White Giant” to an “embarrassment to the force”

NT News. Klan has HQ in the NT This is part two of a series that charts the short history of the Ku Klux Klan in the Northern Territory of Australia and the involvement of NT police officer Constable David Jennings in that story. It is part of a developing set of posts and series [...]

By Bob Gosford|2023-03-29T17:11:30+09:30December 13th, 2019|Australian politics, Crime, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

The red hands of Yuendumu, Tuesday 12 November 2019

Photo by Katrina Beavan, ABC Alice Springs This is a guest post by Frank Baarda, a long-term resident of Yuendumu, NT. Yesterday hundreds of Yuendumu residents marched on the Yuendumu police station. The police station was going to be opened to allow the station to be swept. Sweeping is a ritual whereby after a death [...]

By Bob Gosford|2019-11-13T22:06:59+09:30November 13th, 2019|Australian politics, Crime, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu|0 Comments

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

When pot was king.

We'll never know with any certainty just how many crops were grown in the NT from the late 1970s through to the late 1990s but through my research over the past couple of years I’ve located reports - sourced from court reports, personal reports, NT Police material and of course contemporaneous media accounts – that indicate the Northern Territory was a hot-spot for cannabis cultivation during that period.

By Bob Gosford|2025-04-05T12:04:35+09:30November 24th, 2018|Australian politics, Media, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, The Law, The Northern Myth|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 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