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Professor Larissa Behrendt talks – postcards, the Ampilitwatja walk-off and the NT Intervention

I’ve been working with really strong community members, people who have been given well-deserved authority and respect by their communities and who have been completely overlooked by governments. I just cannot understand why this government continues an approach that completely disengages communities and individuals. Particularly when you look at the cumulative impact of that continual disengagement and the return to the top-down approach. Eventually the government must finally realise that this approach just isn’t working.

By Bob Gosford|2010-02-18T18:20:51+09:30February 18th, 2010|Australian politics, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, The Law, The NT Intervention|5 Comments

Kevin Rudd’s “clanging gong” rings hollow at the Ampilitawatja walk-off camp

Two years ago Kevin Rudd, in what appears to have now faded into a largely symbolic apology to Aboriginal Australia, told the nation that: …symbolism is important but, unless the great symbolism of reconciliation is accompanied by an even greater substance, it is little more than a clanging gong. It is not sentiment that makes [...]

By Bob Gosford|2010-02-15T08:17:57+09:30February 15th, 2010|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention, Yuendumu|8 Comments

Notes from the Australasian Ornithological Conference 2009

I long ago gave up going to conferences where I'm not presenting a paper and my presentation was in the first session of the first day...

By Bob Gosford|2009-12-16T22:04:14+09:30December 16th, 2009|Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Some places I've been|6 Comments

Australia’s shame Part 2: Tiwi Forestry – 30,000 hectares of “bankrupt monoculture”

Senator IAN MACDONALD—What is your concern about the Tiwi Islands, from the Tiwi Islanders’ point of view? Dr Ajani—I think they have a product which is not well placed in the play that is going to unfold over the next few years as our hardwood plantation resource comes onto the market.

By Bob Gosford|2009-10-28T08:25:33+09:30October 28th, 2009|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, The Northern Myth|12 Comments

Australia’s shame – the Timor Sea oil spill disaster in pictures

This is a disaster of not only local, but regional and international proportions. The impending arrival of the seasonal monsoonal cycle in the coming months will substantially change the nature and location of the impact of this massive spill.

By Bob Gosford|2009-10-26T17:08:57+09:30October 26th, 2009|Animals, Birds, Northern development, Uncategorized|22 Comments

Roadkill of the week – Jayco poptop caravan, Central Arnhem Road

This poor thing had been dragged around the countryside for the best part of 30 years until it finally expired on a dusty, corrugated stretch of road in the centre of Arnhem Land earlier this year.

By Bob Gosford|2009-10-13T18:17:49+09:30October 13th, 2009|Northern development, NT local government, Roadkill, Some places I've been|9 Comments

The Weekend Australian, Nicolas Rothwell, and the art of fantastic journalism

What Rothwell is of course talking about here is localised Aboriginal self-determination, an aspiration that he has frequently condemned to the dustbin of Australian political history: “For some time it has been clear Aboriginal self-determination has had its day.”

By Bob Gosford|2009-10-05T11:07:49+09:30October 5th, 2009|Australian politics, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention, Writing and writers|11 Comments

Hell road of the year – the Tanami Track

The Shire of Halls Creek is particularly impecunious; it has a very small rating base and few other revenue opportunities...it is responsible for a very large road network that it does not have adequate resources to maintain at an appropriate level...[t]he poor state of the Tanami Road is a serious impediment to providing services of all kinds.

By Bob Gosford|2009-10-01T16:37:28+09:30October 1st, 2009|Australian politics, Northern development, The Arts, the Tanami Track|1 Comment

Why birds, culture and language are relevant…and interesting

The most substantial single source of Aboriginal bird knowledge in the mainstream ornithological literature was John Gould's "Handbook to The Birds of Australia", published in 1865. I've not been able to find a replacement candidate as the primary source - and much of the information contained therein was collected by one of Gould's collectors, John Gilbert, who was taken from us too soon in 1845 while on a cross-country expedition with Ludwig Leichhardt.

By Bob Gosford|2009-08-23T18:01:34+09:30August 23rd, 2009|Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management, Northern development|2 Comments

The Senate, the Alice Springs News and Centrecorp – a “multitude of factual errors and distortions”

As the Alice Springs News says: "a dossier of Alice Springs News reports was a substantial part of the briefing NT Senator Nigel Scullion gave Senator Brandis."

By Bob Gosford|2009-09-20T11:34:15+09:30June 29th, 2009|Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, The Law|1 Comment