Warren Mundine on the role of the military in Aboriginal communities: "Actually the military does have a place … In the tsunami of Indonesia, you know at Sumatra and the Indian Ocean. And I said the military has got to train for emergency services and war situations."
The Keep River Kite reckons that the NT's new mandatory rehab scheme for repeat drunks will be just another "wild, failed scheme" doomed for failure.
Is the use of powers contained in an "extraordinary bill with extraordinary powers in extraordinary circumstances" justified to ban the Hells Angels from having a drink in the NT's pubs?
Moral panic or good law and policy? S. 33AA of the NT Liquor Act as a blunt instrument of social control.
Police operations like Thumper in Katherine and other towns of the Top End do not stand unsupported. Thumping is now big business.
A look back at some of the more curious entries in the death records of the Northern Territory from the early years of last century.
The obvious point is that this sort of politically attractive - but fundamentally naive and cruel - quick fix does not work. To get kids back into school successfully takes more than tough love, fines or hawk-eyed cops. Success will come with resources, planning, proper encouragement, good role models, joyful love and humour.
Someone in Acting CM Lambley’s position should be well aware that it is erroneous and possibly prejudicial to cry ‘murder’ when there has been no such conviction by a court. Murder is a very specific offence, and it does the NT Government no credit to have Ms Lambley respond in hysterical ignorance.
If you want to own a longarm or handgun in Australia now you firstly need a legitimate reason (sport-shooting or employment-related reasons top that list), have to go through rigorous police checks and join a gun club. There is no presumption or right to gun ownership - it is a privilege.
"They used to go up to him and sort of play with him, wanking him, some of the kids used to suck him off. And I was one of them. There was a lot of others kids too that sucked him off and wanked him.”
