Why Labor will win the 2024 NT election: A chat with noted psephologist Doctor Advocatus Diaboli

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 [...]

Who’ll win the NT election? Fuck knows …

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 [...]

Joe Martin-Jard’s term as Northern Land Council Chief Executive Officer ends (updated*)

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 [...]

By |2024-03-14T16:51:45+09:30March 14th, 2024|Indigenous land management, Media, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|Comments Off on Joe Martin-Jard’s term as Northern Land Council Chief Executive Officer ends (updated*)

The Police can be a force for good—but guns are part of the problem, not a solution

NT police issue Glock 22, .40 calibre This Musical Dispatch from the Front is a guest post by my old—in both senses of that word—friend Frank Baarda,* a long-term resident of Yuendumu. Greetings, This is a tale of how IMHO the police should be and how it is. On our odyssey when we returned from [...]

By |2024-03-04T16:36:37+09:30March 4th, 2024|Crime, Northern development, NT Police, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth, Yuendumu|Comments Off on The Police can be a force for good—but guns are part of the problem, not a solution

In the NT juvenile offenders sleep on million dollar beds

Photo: National Indigenous Times This Musical Dispatch from the Front is a guest post by my old—in both senses of that word—friend Frank Baarda,* a long-term resident of Yuendumu. Hiya Folks, I consider myself lucky to have experienced an age when nuclear submarines didn’t cost $5 billion and to keep an almost vacant offshore asylum [...]

A crocodile called Elvis

Part 3: Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3) Not the Tiwi Island Crocodile called "Elvis". But a nice one nonetheless ... At paragraph 312 of Justice Natalie Charlesworth’s decision in Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3) witness Tony Pilakui said in his statement that he disputed the truth of [...]

“We’re working through those processes … “ Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3)

Part Two: … and a crocodile called Elvis. Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher. Darwin, February 2024 By Bob Gosford In the first part of this seriesI looked at the recent Federal Court decision of Justice Charlesworth in Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3) [2024] (Munkara) and briefly explored the judicial history of principles [...]

By |2024-02-18T23:35:04+09:30February 18th, 2024|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Mining and Resources, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth, Tiwi Islands|Comments Off on “We’re working through those processes … “ Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3)

Vale Wojeiech Jacek “Jack” Karczewski KC

This is a guest post by legal commentator Hector Lung. Jack Karczewski KC was admitted to practice in the NT in 1984 and provided almost 40 years of service to the Territory’s criminal justice system. He passed away in late 2023. In early 2024 a few rather brief and underwhelming notices appeared to mark his [...]

By |2024-01-31T17:21:55+09:30January 31st, 2024|Crime, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|Comments Off on Vale Wojeiech Jacek “Jack” Karczewski KC

First (Australian) cab off the electoral rank for 2024 – the Northern Territory

2024 will be a big year for elections, with some estimates stating that half (really?) the world population will get the opportunity to vote in 2024. Time magazine reckons that 64 countries—and the European Union—will conduct national elections this year with elections in Taiwan, Bangladesh, Russia and Ukraine all must-watch events for a variety of [...]

By |2024-01-24T18:59:29+09:30January 24th, 2024|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|Comments Off on First (Australian) cab off the electoral rank for 2024 – the Northern Territory

Australia’s Silent Housing Crisis – Northern Territory Homelands

A guest post by Nathan Evans* The Northern Territory Homelands Movement began in the 1970s and was a visible demonstration of Aboriginal people across the Northern Territory asserting their rights to determine their lives on their traditional lands.  When first established, these homelands received almost no government services.  The construction of physical infrastructure was left [...]

By |2024-01-08T12:28:26+09:30January 8th, 2024|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, NT Politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|Comments Off on Australia’s Silent Housing Crisis – Northern Territory Homelands
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