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Interview with Richard Teo, Acting President of the NT Country Liberal Party

Mr Richard Teo, A/President of the CLP: "There was no violence whatsoever. There are a lot of people out there who would like to sink the man. He [Abbott] is one of the best indigenous persons that have come out into the open to openly look for a position in government which we need more people like that for. There are a lot of jealous people out there who would like to sink the man. And we are a fair-go party, we give everyone a chance to prove themselves."

By Bob Gosford|2010-08-17T17:58:03+09:30August 17th, 2010|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth|1 Comment

Bird of the week – Raven finds the first men – the art of Bill Reid

Where do we find Raven?..." the story begins. "... When you want to find Raven, you look for him at the top of the tree, where he often sits, his eyes always moving, always looking and looking, gazing out across his world, watching for some mischief to get into or something to eat..."

By Bob Gosford|2019-07-31T17:45:06+09:30August 4th, 2010|Animals, Art, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Religion, The Arts, The Northern Myth|2 Comments

Vale Kwementyaye Ryder – a photo-essay

In evidence given to the Committal proceeding in the Alice Springs Magistrate's Court in December 2009, one of the campers told the Court that the "words exchanged" included "You black cunts - fuck off out of this Todd River" and "Get out of the Todd River, you motherfuckers".

By Bob Gosford|2010-07-27T10:46:08+09:30July 25th, 2010|Crime, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth|3 Comments

NT candidates online – big on Facebook and just a few Tweets

Hell, if "friends" were votes, Warren H would be streeting his opposition right now. His personal Facebook page has 387 "friends, his recently created Green's candidate Facebook page has 190 people that "like" it, there is a Wikipedia-based "Community" Facebook page that has 33 "friends" and his MySpace site has a whopping 1,709 "friends" With friends like that who needs voters!

By Bob Gosford|2010-07-21T17:39:15+09:30July 19th, 2010|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|1 Comment

30 years of cowboy outfits in the Northern Territory – Colin Holt

Many years ago I had a T-shirt produced by local Darwin artists Chips Mackinolty and Therese Ritchie. On the front of the shirt was a woman talking to her husband about a request from their child, who was standing before them resplendent in one of those cheap cowboy outfits we all had as children. From the foggy mists of memory she was saying something along the lines of "Johnny wanted a Cowboy Outfit for Christmas. So I got him the Northern Territory Government." Colin Holt's show, "30 Years of Chief Ministers - the official portraits we should have had" runs from 8 July to 4 August at the Alice Springs Public Library.

By Bob Gosford|2010-07-11T13:33:16+09:30July 7th, 2010|Art, Camp Dog of the week, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, The Arts, The Northern Myth|2 Comments

Hats off at the Brunette Downs races and rodeo

One easy way to pick a real ringer - rather than the wanna-be's, usedtobe's or nevercouldbe'sbuttryinghard's - in a crowd is to look for the amount of cow shit stains on his or her hat - if it has a generous spray of shit from brim to brow then they are most likely a real ringer - or stole the hat off one.

By Bob Gosford|2010-06-22T16:57:52+09:30June 22nd, 2010|Animals, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|3 Comments

More birds, people and culture from ICE 2010 – Tofino, BC, Canada

Further to my previous post here on the 33rd Society of Ethnobiology meeting at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, the following week I traveled up to the small resort town of Tofino for the 12th International Congress of Ethnobiology conducted by the International Society of Ethnobiology. There I joined with my colleague from Nature Kenya, Fleur Ng'weno, to co-chair a larger symposium on Ethnoornithology than I had presented the week before in Victoria, BC.

By Bob Gosford|2025-08-22T12:48:07+09:30June 13th, 2010|Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management, Religion, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|10 Comments

Birds, culture, language & people at the 33rd Society of Ethnobiology meeting

The conference theme, "The Meeting Place" is well represented by the Grouse and the other Atla'gimma spirits who gather in the ceremonial "bighouse" to share in the song of sacred interactions that keep the forest ecosystem alive. Just as each Atla'gimma character has their own dance, every ethnobiologist has their own discipline and interests. But, the synergisms of shared knowledge, like the magic of each Atla'gimma spirit dancing to the same music, is far more powerful than the sum of the parts.

By Bob Gosford|2025-08-19T20:07:33+09:30June 1st, 2010|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Religion, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|2 Comments

Conferenceville in British Columbia – May 2010

In recent years Ethnoornithology has emerged as a valuable sub-discipline of ethnobiological research, partly for its potential to be able to make a valuable contribution to bird conservation and also as a means of empowering people of all cultures preserve, re-examine and discover the connections between individuals, groups and cultures and the birds that people hunt, venerate and cherish.

By Bob Gosford|2025-08-19T18:35:01+09:30May 18th, 2010|Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|1 Comment

Marie Munkara wins 2010 Northern Territory Book of the Year!!

Congratulations to Marie - and her family - on winning this richly deserved award. By all accounts at least one of the other authors thought that they had the prize in the bag - and was somewhat crestfallen when Marie walked away with the goods.

By Bob Gosford|2017-11-22T19:49:46+09:30February 12th, 2010|Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|3 Comments