Macklin should resign as Minister - she has no results to show us, she doesn't - or doesn't know how to - listen or talk to Aboriginal people - she should go, and the sooner the better: Richard Downs, Alyawarra leader
In the weird world that passes for NT politics right now surprises are coming thick and fast. And just maybe Alison Anderson has taken the trenchant criticisms from her constituents at Ampilatwatja to heart.
Gerry Wood only needed to make one deal to maintain Labor in power. If he had supported the CLP there would have been three deals - between Wood and CLP opposition leader Terry Mills, between Mills and Alison Anderson and between Wood and Anderson and the risk of any of those three deals going pear-shaped was substantial.
The Australian maintains it's bizarre position that Alison Anderson was a visionary that could do no wrong and was now a victim of a dastardly conspiracy by a manipulative Gerry Wood and the forces of absolute evil behind NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson.
Henderson has held on by the skin of his teeth for a couple of months -- but that all went very pear-shaped when ex-Minister Alison Anderson spat the dummy and left Labor in high, and very curious, dudgeon last week.
Until we give back to the black man just a bit of land that was his and give it back without provisos, without strings to snatch it back, without anything but complete generosity of spirit in concession for the evil we have done him - until we do that, we shall remain what we have always been so far: a community of thieves - Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country.
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."
That policy of speaking English only at school is the wrong thing - it is not good for our children, because if they put, if the children are only taught in English - they will forget their language, and they will lose their identity. They won't know who they are.
There is the very real possibility that Alison Anderson could follow Scrymgour's lead and walk - not to the cross-benches - but across the Assembly floor to the CLP - gifting government to the CLP's Terry Mills.
Country Liberal Party stalwarts Dave Tollner, John Elferink, Peter Murphy were in attendance, as was of course Terry "the man who may soon be King" Mills, who waxed lyrical about Nicolas's observations of country and his ear for recording conversations.
