The day Alison ‘King Brown’ Anderson got bit.
Yesterday afternoon NT Chief Minister Adam Giles dumped Aboriginal MLA Alison Anderson from his Cabinet and sent her to the backbench. Watch this space.
Warren Mundine’s new military intervention into Aboriginal Australia
Warren Mundine on the role of the military in Aboriginal communities: "Actually the military does have a place … In the tsunami of Indonesia, you know at Sumatra and the Indian Ocean. And I said the military has got to train for emergency services and war situations."
Chips Mackinolty on Aboriginal health in the NT – small gains but a long way to go
Last night Warren Mundine proposed new military-style interventions into Aboriginal communities to provide health services. Chips Mackinolty shows that in the NT, community-controlled health services are the key to efficient and effective than health service provision.
Warren Mundine’s indigenous manifesto – ‘elegance and simplicity’ or more ‘bullshit’?
Earlier this year Warren Mundine told The Australian that Aboriginal people were sick of being 'bullshitted to.' This time next week Mundine may be the most powerful blackfella in the country. Is Mundine's vision one of 'elegance & simplicity' or just more bullshit?
Redneck paradise: why are (some) Territorians so mean-spirited and ignorant?
Are intemperate and insulting comments to an NT News article part of a genuine debate or an indicator of the true extent of red-neckery in the far north?
David Ross – on taking power and reclaiming self-determination on our own terms
Central Land Council Director David Ross: self-determination has been "bastardised and shoved into the closet" by governments. He issues a forceful call for Aboriginal people to reclaim the concept of self-determination on their own terms.
Is the NT’s Hells Angels ban unlawful?
Is the use of powers contained in an "extraordinary bill with extraordinary powers in extraordinary circumstances" justified to ban the Hells Angels from having a drink in the NT's pubs?
NT Police go the Thumper: Losing the war against grog and crime
Police operations like Thumper in Katherine and other towns of the Top End do not stand unsupported. Thumping is now big business.
Trashing Tony’s tough-love truancy travesty
The obvious point is that this sort of politically attractive - but fundamentally naive and cruel - quick fix does not work. To get kids back into school successfully takes more than tough love, fines or hawk-eyed cops. Success will come with resources, planning, proper encouragement, good role models, joyful love and humour.
“A sense of unease and misgiving” – abuse and the Catholic Church on the Tiwi islands
"They used to go up to him and sort of play with him, wanking him, some of the kids used to suck him off. And I was one of them. There was a lot of others kids too that sucked him off and wanked him.”