A guest post by Nigel Browne, CEO of Aboriginal Investment NT It has been just over a fortnight since the Garma Festival, the annual celebration and gathering that showcases Yolngu people, culture and Country. What usually transcends the days after Garma is positive uplifting of our culture, our Country and more importantly, of Aboriginal Territorians [...]
If the NT wants to silence coroners from exposing systemic racism, then the Federal Government must step in. Coroner Elisabeth Armitage (l) and NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro A guest post by George Newhouse* The Northern Territory Government is preparing a response to Coroner Elisabeth Armitage’s detailed inquest findings into the 2019 police shooting of [...]
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 [...]
Lisa Siebert & Marion Scrymgour In the 2025 Federal election the NT CLP took one step forward, two steps back … Sometimes too much of a good thing is a bad, bad thing … It was a surprise to no-one that the NT Country Liberal Party was short-priced favourite to win the NT general election [...]
Anthony Albanese at Binjari, NT March 2024 On Saturday just passed ABC Darwin broadcast a piece by local reporter Olivana Lathouris about housing at the small Aboriginal community of Binjari. Binjari is a fly-speck town just off the main road west of Katherine, 300 kilometres south of the Northern Territory’s capital Darwin. The major premise [...]
A joint media release by the Northern, Central, Tiwi and Anindilyakwa Aboriginal Land Councils issued earlier today, 12 March 2025 The Northern Territory’s four land councils have united in calling for the Territory Coordinator Bill to be dumped. The Bill excludes Aboriginal people from involvement in development decisions on their traditional lands and prevents them [...]
Photojournalist Glenn Campbell was covering Cyclone Alfred and called me just before he evacuated from Lismore yesterday afternoon. As ever he’s good for a yarn and yesterday he told me a few tales from a long career chasing cyclones – and much more – as an “accidental cyclone tourist.” Glenn Campbell – Lismore I just [...]
The NT election will be held tomorrow, 24 August 2024. I now reckon that Eva Lawler’s Australian Labor Party (ALP) will squeak back to office with either a one-seat majority or as a minority government with the support of an Independent. That’s not a reckoning shared by most of those I’ve talked to over the [...]
Bob Gosford reports from Darwin As I noted earlier this year, 2024 will be a big year for elections. Yesterday’s issue of the writ kicked off the NT election on Saturday 24 August that will have ramifications for both major parties at a national level – for Labor to retain its electoral dominance; for the [...]
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) Joe Martin-Jard, is leaving the role, effective Friday.The NLC would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Martin-Jard for [...]
