I first visited Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market near the hamlet of Money in Leflore county Mississippi in 2009 with my friend Mark Bonta, who was a professor at the local Delta State University in nearby Cleveland at the time. Before that visit I’d not heard much of the brutal murder of Emmett Till and [...]
The 24th NT administrator, on a soggy day in Darwin. 1 March 2026 The NT News Editorial was pretty blunt. The new administrator was a nice bloke, “a personable man,” but it went on to damn him with the faintest of praise, saying he had “more abilities in other directions than he is likely to [...]
A guest post by Nigel Browne, CEO of Aboriginal Investment NT It has been just over a fortnight since the Garma Festival, the annual celebration and gathering that showcases Yolngu people, culture and Country. What usually transcends the days after Garma is positive uplifting of our culture, our Country and more importantly, of Aboriginal Territorians [...]
Patriotism, Outsourced By Andrew Morrison, Gunditjmara 100 per cent AI The March for Australia promises to be the greatest celebration of contradictions since the invention of “Aussie” lamingtons (a New Zealand dessert wrapped in an Australian flag). Expect a sea of Made in China flags fluttering proudly above convoys of Japanese SUVs and German sedans, [...]
A guest post by Marion Scrymgour, Member for Lingiari. This post was originally published in the Sunday Territorian on 24 August 2025 and is re-published here with permission. Something is going wrong in the Northern Territory when the government of the day promotes a planned substantial increase in prison numbers as a winning strategy and [...]
If the NT wants to silence coroners from exposing systemic racism, then the Federal Government must step in. Coroner Elisabeth Armitage (l) and NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro A guest post by George Newhouse* The Northern Territory Government is preparing a response to Coroner Elisabeth Armitage’s detailed inquest findings into the 2019 police shooting of [...]
Mandawuy Yunupingu The following is the kind of warm and deeply personal account by Phil O’Brien that can only come from a sustained friendship, in this case with his very good mate, Mandawuy Yunupingu, aka "Munda." Munda was taken from us by a terrible disease just over 13 years ago at the far-too-young age of [...]
I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that racist terms of abuse like ‘coons’, ‘niggers’ and the like have long been consigned to history’s dustbin of common usage. However, from the recent revelations in Coroner Armitage’s Report into the death of Kumanjayi Walker it seems that was naïve and, at least among a small group [...]
Anthony Albanese at Binjari, NT March 2024 On Saturday just passed ABC Darwin broadcast a piece by local reporter Olivana Lathouris about housing at the small Aboriginal community of Binjari. Binjari is a fly-speck town just off the main road west of Katherine, 300 kilometres south of the Northern Territory’s capital Darwin. The major premise [...]
On Monday last – in the midst of an unprecedented leadership crisis in the NT police force and with corrections and the justice system descending into chaos – the NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro was a guest of Katie Woolf’s on her morning show on Darwin commercial radio MIX104.9FM. Katie Woolf is regarded by some [...]
