Jacinta Price on Sky News. 7 May 2025 Be careful what you pray for, you just might get itBe careful what you pray for, you might regret itYou get your hands on that glittering prizeNow everybody's coming at you from every sidePaul Kelly, 2008Be Careful What You Pray For Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Price had [...]
Starting at about 8.20 pm (NT time) last night the ABC broadcast an interview by Sarah Ferguson and Bridget Brennan with NT Senator Jacinta Price after the Coalition’s devastating – to put it mildly – loss at the 2025 Australian Federal election. Make of the interview what you will but I think it was a [...]
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 [...]
On Monday last – in the midst of an unprecedented leadership crisis in the NT police force and with corrections and the justice system descending into chaos – the NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro was a guest of Katie Woolf’s on her morning show on Darwin commercial radio MIX104.9FM. Katie Woolf is regarded by some [...]
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 [...]
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA v YUNUPINGU (ON BEHALF OF THE GUMATJCLAN OR ESTATE GROUP) & ORS 2025 HCA 6 The following is a summary of the landmark native title compensation case that was provided by the High Court of Australia at 10am this morning. The 175 pages of the complete judgement of the Full bench of [...]
Part Two – Michael Murphy, the Voldemort clause, the Police Union & the NT ICAC This is Part Two of an article examining recent events involving the NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, the NT ICAC, the NT government and the NT Police Association. You can read Part One here. Operation Apollo & The Voldemort clause [...]
Part One – Michael Murphy and the battle against racism in the NT Police This is Part One of a two part article examining recent events involving the NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, the NT ICAC, the NT government and the powerful police union the NT Police Association. Part Two will follow in due course. [...]
It was a hot Friday night in October 1979 and a construction crew were well into a session at the Adelaide River Inn, 100 kilometres or so south of Darwin in the Northern Territory, then as now a very comfortable pub set in roomy tree-shaded grounds. Most of the building crew were relaxing with a [...]
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 [...]
