The NT Intervention Archives - Page 9 of 13

Darwin’s 4th Estate – last drinks on 20 years of “typing to dance to”

Celebrating their 20th anniversary, revolutionary rock journalism act DARWIN'S 4TH ESTATE will be unveiling new songs and old at the Railway Club, Somerville Gardens Rd Parap, from 8pm on Friday April 29. With bass, drums, guitar, sax and ten typewriters driven by some of the city's finest journalists, writers and broadcasters, guest vocalists will include Shellie Morris, Tracey Bunn and Mary Anne Butler. Other special guests will be announced soon.

By Bob Gosford|2017-12-29T17:37:11+09:30April 17th, 2011|Animals, Art, Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Music, Religion, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Arts, The NT Intervention, Writing and writers|1 Comment

An(other) open letter from Sue Stanton – to Bess Price and Larissa Behrendt

I am a member of the McGinness Family – the eldest Granddaughter of Jack McGinness, freedom fighter and committed human rights campaigner. The legacy of my Gurindji family and our early day revolutionaries at Wave Hill are also part of my rich culture and heritage. We continue our fight for freedom and rights in this country.

By Bob Gosford|2011-04-15T00:25:21+09:30April 14th, 2011|Australian politics, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, Religion, Some places I've been, The NT Intervention, Writing and writers|11 Comments

Governments, ownership and control of the Yuendumu 100

"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

By Bob Gosford|2010-10-15T08:31:06+09:30October 15th, 2010|Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, NT Police, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention, the Tanami Track, Yuendumu|4 Comments

The media and the “riots” in Yuendumu

I can’t think of a single incident in the past in which the Warlpiri residents of Yuendumu have not respected non-Warlpiri residents’ neutrality in such matters. They respect our right to be kept out of it. This respect is not reciprocated by “mainstream” society, that has the arrogant belief that it is entitled to interfere and dictate to remote Aboriginals how they should live their lives. The Intervention epitomises this arrogance.

By Bob Gosford|2010-09-16T21:27:26+09:30September 16th, 2010|Australian politics, Crime, Fun stuff, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention, the Tanami Track, Yuendumu|11 Comments

Stopping the Violence…and the traffic in Alice Springs

John Liddle: Like most Aboriginal males in Central Australia I am sick of going to funerals and seeing our courts, jails, health clinics and hospital filled with brothers and sisters who have been involved in family violence. It is time that Aboriginal males stood up both morally and culturally, taking positive action and a zero tolerance approach to stop the excessive violence in families, communities and towns, a crisis that is having a devastating effect on community members of all ages and genders, especially the children.

By Bob Gosford|2010-09-04T13:22:22+09:30September 3rd, 2010|Australian politics, Crime, Northern Territory politics, NT Police, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention|15 Comments

Breakfast with Hetti Perkins. Part two – life, work, art and more

My dad spent so much time out bush and we barely saw him when we were growing up. He was always out on a community. And you know now when I go to the most remote little community place all kinds of people come up to me and say “Oh Kumanjayi sorry for your dad”. Just yesterday at the Art Fair here in Darwin someone said to me...and my Dad died ten years ago... an older woman came up to me “Oh I'm sorry for your father that Kumanjayi”...it is an immense honour and incredibly humbling when people talk to me about my father as they do.

By Bob Gosford|2010-08-30T13:40:41+09:30August 30th, 2010|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, Australian politics, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Law, The NT Intervention, Writing and writers|7 Comments

Interview with Terry Mills, Leader of the Northern Territory Country Liberal party Opposition

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.

By Bob Gosford|2010-08-19T16:28:38+09:30August 18th, 2010|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The Law, The Northern Myth, The NT Intervention|3 Comments

My unsung heroes – Marion Scrymgour’s NAIDOC speech

I am honoured to have been given this 2010 NAIDOC award. I remember like it was yesterday being in the audience at this event in 2007 when my former colleague Jack Ah Kit spoke after receiving the same award. It was only weeks after John Howard and Mal Brough had made their shock-and-awe Intervention announcement in 2007.

By Bob Gosford|2020-07-12T19:39:30+09:30July 13th, 2010|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention|2 Comments

The Ampilatwatja walk-off – Richard Downs on the new ‘dog-licenses’ and more

To my mind this Income Quarantining is a bit like the old days when they used to put Aboriginal people under the “dog license", where they had to grovel to the government for permission to do all kinds of things. People need to stand up and say “No, this is not right for Australia. What kind of country are we living in?”

By Bob Gosford|2010-02-24T12:31:25+09:30February 24th, 2010|Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention|12 Comments

Professor Larissa Behrendt talks – postcards, the Ampilitwatja walk-off and the NT Intervention

I’ve been working with really strong community members, people who have been given well-deserved authority and respect by their communities and who have been completely overlooked by governments. I just cannot understand why this government continues an approach that completely disengages communities and individuals. Particularly when you look at the cumulative impact of that continual disengagement and the return to the top-down approach. Eventually the government must finally realise that this approach just isn’t working.

By Bob Gosford|2010-02-18T18:20:51+09:30February 18th, 2010|Australian politics, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, The Law, The NT Intervention|5 Comments