EXCLUSIVE TO THE NORTHERN MYTH NEWS SERVICE DARWIN, Thursday, 18 January 2024 A Darwin Tradie has left patrons and management at a local restaurant outraged, shocked, bemused and befuddled when he reserved his table with a pair of Dragon Eyewear shades. One local, sparkie Tom “Mullet” Millner told Northern Myth News that he’d never seen [...]
Following is the lightly edited text of Governor Chris Christie’s speech at a Town Hall meeting at Windham, New Hampshire on 10 January where he announced his withdrawal as a Republican Party candidate for the 2024 election. As with President Jospeh Biden’s speech launching his re-election bid (see The Northern Myth post here) at Valley [...]
By Mark Butler.* SOME time in 1970, while I was still pretending to be a student at Macquarie University, I gave a lecture outlining my belief that Bob Dylan would one day be seen as a great poet on the same level as Eliot, Yeats and Auden, at that time my touchstones for poetic greatness. [...]
A guest post by Nathan Evans* The Northern Territory Homelands Movement began in the 1970s and was a visible demonstration of Aboriginal people across the Northern Territory asserting their rights to determine their lives on their traditional lands. When first established, these homelands received almost no government services. The construction of physical infrastructure was left [...]
President Joseph Biden’s re-election campaign speech earlier today US time at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania was a speech for the ages and has set the tone for the campaign that will run for the next 10 months until election day. Hang on, it will be a great ride. At nearly 4,000 words the transcript is a [...]
Bob Gosford This post is the first in an occasional series looking at music that I’m … Spinning … on my recently acquired turntable. The following text is from the website of Fat Possum Records, where Mississippi Hill Country musician R. L Burnside recorded what for mine was his best work. His 1994 recording Too [...]
Bob Gosford This piece was first published in the Northern Land Council’s Land Rights News December 2023 edition and is a tribute to the long-serving member and Chairman of the Northern Land Council Dr Bush-Blanasi, who passed away after a short illness in November 2023. You can read more about Dr Bush-Blanasi’s life at previous [...]
Dr Bush-Blanasi 19-11-1961—12-11-2023 NT News, 14 November 2023 Long-time Northern Land Council chairman and 2023 NT Australian of theYear Dr Bush-Blanasi has passed away aged 61 following a short illness.He was surrounded by members of his extended family when he passedaway at Royal Darwin Hospital on Sunday. Dr Bush-Blanasi was a Yolngu man with country [...]
For various reasons I missed the email from Jane alerting me to the opening of what looks like a great exhibition at the Post Irving gallery in Fremantle, WA. By all accounts the show went off with a bang, with red dots on all of the works within an hour of opening! As the handbill [...]
Northern Land Council – Statement on the passing of the NLC Chairman, Dr Bush-Blanasi The following is a statement released this morning by the Northern Land Council Today we mourn the loss of Dr Bush-Blanasi. His mother was a Yolngu woman from the Blue Mud Bay region and he was raised by a Mayili man [...]
