Barred Owl Strix varia I’ve long had a fascination with bird-human interactions, particularly the cultural and ecological knowledge of, and relationships that humans have with birds. Ethnoornithology involves the scientific study of the dynamic relationships between people and birds. Usually its a pretty dry academic pursuit so I was interested to find a fascinating example [...]
The Andrew McMillan Living Wake will kick off at 7pm on 3rd December at the Darwin Railway Club in Parap. I reckon a lobster will get you through the door for what looks like a great night. Hopefully no-one will be writing an obituary for Andrew any time soon...who knows, he might hang around for us to do another one next year...and the year after that!
I spent most of my 20s at Yuendumu; I feel like I grew into a man there, and I did not do it on my own. Maybe one day I’ll be that old man sitting on a bed, keeping myself company by closing my eyes and recalling these stories.
"Warlpiri people are not slaves, yet many in ‘mainstream’ society persist in claiming some sort of ‘ownership’ of Aborigines. They arrogantly have opinions as to what Aborigines should or shouldn’t do, and believe they have some sort of right in deciding what is best for them. Warlpiri have no power over their destiny. No say in their future. No say in how they should run their lives." Frank Baarda, Yuendumu 2010
Chips Mackinolty: "Katherine was isolating in those days. Unless you’d stayed in town for at least two wet seasons people would look at you as an outsider. And if you were crazy enough to do a third wet season they sort of thought, 'Well, he might be a lunatic but at least he is our lunatic.' "
To begin, in the military regime of Soeharto at the time, we were put in the goal without any accusation - informal or formal. You were just...one day you were picked up from where you stay by a military peleton then you are just dropped into...
Young people, feeling hopeless, began to tell each other to follow their ancestors and kill themselves like Purrukapali. But the real story said something else. The true story was about creation, how our first man died to create the Curlew, from the spirit of our first woman, his wife, and how the moon was created from the spirit of Purrukapali's treacherous brother. This was the real story. How can we sort it out?" he asks. "How can we change the ending of the story?"
This camouflage serves as both a protection from predators – and there is no shortage of hungry Kites, Goshawks and Falcons around that would grab a juicy Dragon for a snack – and also as a deceptive strategy for any small creatures that the Dragon would want to eat that might wander past within range.
As the NT News reported on 13 August 2010 that: "The CLP knew about the case before choosing him as the candidate for Lingiari...Mr Abbott yesterday denied he had pleaded guilty, but court records show that he did...He denied the original domestic violence order was taken out against him because of violence or threats of violence against the woman...Mr Abbott said he was a victim of biased legislation that nearly always favoured women in domestic violence cases. 'It does just cut one way in favour of women,' he said."
The Northern Myth: Mr Tony Abbott said in relation to your call for Mr Leo Abbott's disendorsement that: "That's ultimately a matter for the Territory Country Liberal party, but I want to say that there's absolutely - or there should be - absolutely no place in the Parliament for people who are involved in domestic violence." Was that the right call? Terry Mills: Absolutely. Tony Abbott said that it was a “no-brainer.” He phoned me and he couldn’t believe that the [CLP] management committee would have made such a decision, and I completely agree with him, completely agree with him.
