NT Police Archives - Page 8 of 9

Broken promises and ‘dumb insolence’: the death of Kwementyaye Briscoe

Superintendent Jones told Cavanagh that she had: "... raised watch house staffing concerns with several senior officials but was ignored ... she was distressed about the watch-house being manned by only junior, inexperienced staff and by the constant rotation of staff through the facility. Superintendent Jones told the inquiry her recommendations to change staffing conditions had been met with reactions ranging from "dumb insolence" to outright refusal."

By Bob Gosford|2025-03-15T18:43:46+09:30July 3rd, 2012|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law|1 Comment

Bad driver of the week # 2,012. Stuart Highway, Pine Creek, NT. 8 June 2012.

The truck she saw turned out to be the fuzzy profile - well hazy through the thick dust screen - of another tractor-slasher combination perpendicular to the north-south road just fifty or so metres up the road. At first I couldn't tell if it was broken-down or moving. Then I saw that it was executing a three-point (though for this massive machine it was like a ten-point) turn across the roadway.

By Bob Gosford|2012-06-09T06:21:46+09:30June 9th, 2012|Fun stuff, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Roadkill, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth, Uncategorized|2 Comments

Bad law of the week: Sections 90 and 91 of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act

“Bad Law of the Week” will be an (ir)regular feature looking at my choice – or your nominations – of legal measures that are but should no longer be on the statute books. I can think of a half-dozen candidates off the top of my head. I’m sure that readers will be able [...]

By Bob Gosford|2012-04-05T19:38:23+09:30April 5th, 2012|Australian politics, Crime, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention|1 Comment

Tony Fitzgerald – an unlikely Territorian hero

The take-over, or Northern Territory Emergency Response, was conceived in Canberra without discussion with the NT government or the affected communities. The Northern Territory Emergency Response was coercive, heavy handed and designed on the run with limited planning as a short-term response to enable the commonwealth to obtain control, stabilise, normalise and exit. Although styled as an “emergency” government response to the 97 recommendations of the “Little Children are Sacred” report, the Northern Territory Emergency Response ignored those recommendations and it is common knowledge that the government ignored the dysfunction, disadvantage and disorder prevailing in remote communities for the last 40 years.

By Bob Gosford|2012-04-02T11:30:05+09:30April 1st, 2012|Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, NT Police, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention, Writing and writers|0 Comments

“I will have the Police shoot your Dog” – animal management in the NT

This brings us back to the Notice at the Nyirripi Store and begs the following question. Has anyone bothered to ask the locals if they want the Police to shoot their dogs? No? I thought not.

By Bob Gosford|2011-08-09T20:17:49+09:30August 7th, 2011|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Animals, Australian politics, Camp Dog of the week, Dogs, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, NT Police, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Arts, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention, Yuendumu|10 Comments

Shitbox Rally = Clowns, Bulldust and Dickheads on the NT’s Stuart Highway

According to the Shitbox Rally organisers "it isn't a race". But from what I saw over these two days last week some of the contestants thought that the Stuart Highway was their own personal dragstrip. Throw in - as on this past Thursday - a setting sun drilling straight through your bug-encrusted windscreen, more than a few triple-trailer road-trains and the plague-locust army of caravans - travelling at 80 km/h - that infests the Stuart Highway at this time of year and it can be a positively dangerous stretch. Particularly for those - such as most of the Shitboxers - that have never driven the road before.

By Bob Gosford|2011-05-29T09:22:48+09:30May 29th, 2011|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Roadkill, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth|9 Comments

‘Sorry’ – Still Living On Borrowed Time

National Sorry Day is on Thursday 26th of May – The slogan for this years event is ‘SORRY. Still Living On Borrowed Time’.

By Bob Gosford|2011-05-24T14:53:05+09:30May 24th, 2011|Australian politics, Crime, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention, Writing and writers|5 Comments

Governments, ownership and control of the Yuendumu 100

"Warlpiri people are not slaves, yet many in ‘mainstream’ society persist in claiming some sort of ‘ownership’ of Aborigines. They arrogantly have opinions as to what Aborigines should or shouldn’t do, and believe they have some sort of right in deciding what is best for them. Warlpiri have no power over their destiny. No say in their future. No say in how they should run their lives." Frank Baarda, Yuendumu 2010

By Bob Gosford|2010-10-15T08:31:06+09:30October 15th, 2010|Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, NT Police, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention, the Tanami Track, Yuendumu|4 Comments

What do you do when you win 15 grand? Give it away of course…

Chips Mackinolty: "Katherine was isolating in those days. Unless you’d stayed in town for at least two wet seasons people would look at you as an outsider. And if you were crazy enough to do a third wet season they sort of thought, 'Well, he might be a lunatic but at least he is our lunatic.' "

By Bob Gosford|2026-02-25T22:12:09+09:30October 9th, 2010|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, Australian politics, Music, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Arts, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|5 Comments

The media and the “riots” in Yuendumu

I can’t think of a single incident in the past in which the Warlpiri residents of Yuendumu have not respected non-Warlpiri residents’ neutrality in such matters. They respect our right to be kept out of it. This respect is not reciprocated by “mainstream” society, that has the arrogant belief that it is entitled to interfere and dictate to remote Aboriginals how they should live their lives. The Intervention epitomises this arrogance.

By Bob Gosford|2010-09-16T21:27:26+09:30September 16th, 2010|Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention, the Tanami Track, Yuendumu|11 Comments