“Ambassador” Turnbull stirs Trump’s possum; calls out ‘bipartisan gaslighting’ and getting ‘mugged by reality in a dog-eat-dog world’
Nicolle Wallace and Malcolm Turnbull in March 2024. Image: MSNBC Nicolle Wallace hosts the early evening 90-minute MSNBC show Deadline: White House. Wallace’s Australian talking-head-of-choice appears to be former—as in very former—Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. [...]
Democrats: ‘Our team on the ground is kicking ass’
Vice-president Kamala Harris. Photo: supplied A few hours ago I received an email from Jen O’Malley Dillon, Campaign Chair for Harris for President. Unlike earlier emails—and these past few days there’ve been more than a [...]
Runners. San Francisco International Airport, October 2024
I recently flew into San Francisco International Airport and had a 5 hour layover before my onward flight to Newark Liberty airport. An hour-long wait to clear immigration soaked up a chunk of that time [...]
Jelly Roll: fire, rain & red-hot redemption
Spectrum Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. 27 October 2024 Singing In the Rain. Jelly Roll ©Bob Gosford This is more than just music.This is more than just a concert.Tonight is about redemption, recovery and freedom.Tonight is [...]
“Garrkan: an avian ‘troublemaker for fire'” – presentation to the Raptor Research Foundation conference, Charlotte, NC October 2024
I’m in the wonderful city of Charlotte in North Carolina, and later today I’ll present my paper updating our research into fire-spreading raptors in the Top End of the Northern Territory in Australia at the [...]
Why Labor will win the 2024 NT election: A chat with noted psephologist Doctor Advocatus Diaboli
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 [...]
The Sports – Live at Billboard. Melbourne, 1981
The Sports Live At Billboard 1981 is the 42nd release of the Australian Road Crew Association’s (ARCA) Desk Tape Series. Many years ago while based in a land far away – well, Melbourne – I [...]
Who’ll win the NT election? Fuck knows …
Bob Gosford reports from Darwin As I noted earlier this year, 2024 will be a big year for elections. Yesterday’s issue of the writ kicked off the NT election on Saturday 24 August that will [...]
Bunggul with Boots on!
A Special Report from Football Correspondent H.G. Nelson at the 2024 Barunga Festival The Arnhem Crows – 2024 AFLNTW Barunga Festival Grand Final winners Footy Heads, Barunga Festival 2024 was a humungous array of craft, [...]
The vernacular architecture of Ltyentye Apurte racecourse, NT
A few years back I was lucky enough to get out to the (semi) annual horse races at Ltyentye Apurte (also known as Santa Teresa), a small community east of Alice Springs. You can see [...]