Roadkill of the week – Yinkardakurdaku, Spotted Nightjar
To me the call of the Yinkardakurdaku sounds like water flowing out of a narrow-necked bottle, a beautiful succession of fluid sounds ending in an almost joyous, crazy climax.
What is a homeland? One White insider’s view – a guest post from John Greatorex
What is it that is so important and special about homelands for their traditional custodians and that underpins the successful outcomes of living in their small communities?
Death on the Stuart Highway – the killing of Ron Marks
This was the first of the many hundreds of roadside memorials that I've seen over the years that concerned a death by misadventure at the hands of another other than by motor-vehicle accident.
Roadside memorials and “new ways of grief and mourning”
"The roadside memorial is particularly important because it indicates to us that there is a new way looking at grief and mourning." Jennifer Clark, UNE.
A Ssssh*tload of free music from Paul Kelly’s A to Z!!
Over the last few years, Paul Kelly has performed a series of unique shows under the banner ‘A to Z', whereby he sings 100 songs from his catalogue in alphabetical order over 4 nights.
Caravanners – plague locusts of the northern winter
I have a vicious occasional thought that when the get to Darwin they will all run out of road and over a cliff into the Arafura Sea.
Art Centre of the week – Warmun, east Kimberley, WA
The main reason for my travel to Warmun was to get a better look at the work of, and make contact with several of the local artists who paint bird stories grounded in the local landscape and culture.
Roadkill of the week(end) – Diamond Dove Geopelia cuneata
I stopped, turned and bore witness to the death of this small wonder.
Rising moon and roadtrain
I was camped beside the road en-route to Warmun in Western Australia earlier this week and thought that the rising moon and passing roadtrains might provide some images of interest...
Great Southern on the Tiwi Islands – Timber, Fear, Intimidation and a great tax dodge
Under the Senate's spotlight are the arrangements between the Tiwi Land Council and Great Southern, the promoter of broad-acre MIS forestry schemes on the islands that have seen vast swathes of virgin tropical savanna transformed into a monocrop of the fast growing Acacia mangium.