“We’re working through those processes … “ Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3)
Part Two: … and a crocodile called Elvis. Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher. Darwin, February 2024 By Bob Gosford In the first part of this seriesI looked at the recent Federal Court decision of Justice Charlesworth [...]
Evidence that was “qualitatively and quantitively inadequate.” Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3)
Part One: Why Alderson v Northern Land Council (still) rules after forty years. Tiwi lead applicant Simon Munkara By Bob Gosford After two weeks of hearings in late December, in mid-January 2024 Justice Charlesworth of [...]
Brought to book
By Mark Butler* FARRAGO 9 – Waterman: A Picaresque Tale of Old Sydney I HAVE always wanted to write something to live up (or down) to that headline which, throughout my many years as a [...]
The Billion-Dollar bird: What weighs 14 grams, combines ‘novelty, beauty and elegance’ and has derailed Darwin’s billion-dollar housing development?
Part Two – The lights at the end of the tunnel are … “remarkable achievements” In part one of this article we looked at some of the facts arising from the recent “discovery” of the [...]
The Billion-Dollar bird: What weighs 14 grams, combines ‘novelty, beauty and elegance’ and has derailed Darwin’s billion-dollar housing development?
Part One: The facts mate, and only the facts Novelty in itself has attractions, but when with novelty, beauty and elegance are combined, the attractions are augmented beyond measure ….John Gould, The Birds of Australia, [...]
To Paraguay! Documenting the descendants of the New Australia Colony
FARRAGO 8 – A guest post by Peter Solness, artist, teacher, traveller and sometimes Henry Beaufoy Merlin* impersonator. As a young photographer in the 1980’s the jingoism of Australia Day back then never convinced me. I was looking [...]
Vale Wojeiech Jacek “Jack” Karczewski KC
This is a guest post by legal commentator Hector Lung. Jack Karczewski KC was admitted to practice in the NT in 1984 and provided almost 40 years of service to the Territory’s criminal justice system. [...]
Batchelor to Darwin – a photo essay
A few weeks back I went for a drive down to Batchelor, an old uranium mining town an hour’s drive south of Darwin that remade itself as a town dedicated to tourism—the wonderful Litchfield National [...]
Musical Dispatch from the Front — Thirroul
This Musical Dispatch from the Front is a guest post by my old—in both senses of that word—friend Frank Baarda,* a long-term resident of Yuendumu. For decades we have made our annual trek up and [...]
First (Australian) cab off the electoral rank for 2024 – the Northern Territory
2024 will be a big year for elections, with some estimates stating that half (really?) the world population will get the opportunity to vote in 2024. Time magazine reckons that 64 countries—and the European Union—will [...]