Last Friday Helen and Mark Hughes put their names to an opinion piece in The Australian entitled Authorities must not wag school. In short the arguments that the Hughes’ make are that Federal, State and Territory governments abandon their responsibilities to students – particularly remote Aboriginal students – by the stealthy foreshortening of school terms [...]
The folks over at the oddly named spellr.us really do have a point - if the biggest and brightest universities can't get it right - who is left that we can trust? Governments? Though you would think that spellr.us would at least have a typo-free public face.
There is the very real possibility that Alison Anderson could follow Scrymgour's lead and walk - not to the cross-benches - but across the Assembly floor to the CLP - gifting government to the CLP's Terry Mills.
It is a very rich spin indeed that regards three officers resigning and others having their appointments as Police officers terminated as an exemplar of professional conduct likely to instill public confidence in the integrity of the NT Police force.
Maybe instead of blaming the animals we should be saying "I committed a murder of a kangaroo today", "I was driving too fast to let the Wedge-tailed Eagle get enough height to get off the roadway" or "I didn't slow down to let that Goanna cross the road safely".
The documents show the Centrelink account balances of many residents of Yuendumu whose welfare payments have been quarantined under the federal indigenous intervention.
Magistrate Loadman said "[I am] not prepared to make the decision on the basis of statements by police officers, this smacking of that hoary old chestnut, "trust me I'm a lawyer" in this case "trust me I'm a policeman". We do not any longer have courts functioning in the manner of the Star Chamber."
China is not a good place to be a bird...The Li men jostle to sell me supper, all of it live: white-breasted waterhens, little egrets, a black-crowned night heron and a spot-billed duck, the only duck where male and female look alike.
Will the the rise and relentless rise of the web vigilante kill the web and eat its children? Recent developments in the UK indicate that over-reactions by self-appointed cyber-nannys and ISPs can seriously disrupt innocent web use.
There has been a lot of talk about white trash in the press over the past few days and most of it bad - but I'm proud to be called white trash - but white trash made good - maybe.
