It is four years this month since the Mal Brough emergency intervention in the NT and today the PM goes to Alice Springs to see the “progress” supposedly being made.
Alice Springs
NT intervention … why it just didn’t work
The intervention has failed because of what was done and the way it was done, and it did not consult or engage with local people or, in many cases, address their problems.
Alcohol in the Alice: the drink destroying a city
In Alice Springs, locals drink double the national average of alcohol per year. Therefore it’s no surprise that 70-90% of the assaults in the town are alcohol-related. How do we stop the grog? asks Russell Goldflam.
Bug of the week: Golden Drummer Cicada
After quite a few summers of his aimless suburban youth spent chasing Cicadas, Bob Gosford enjoys a glorious crop of Golden Drummer cicadas in Alice Springs, after a wonderfully wet year that has seen record rain,
Alice Springs News sets about its own defence
The first lesson in litigation as a defendant is to mitigate your losses.
Vale Kwementyaye Ryder — a photo-essay
On this day a year ago the lives of six young men intersected in the most horrible way. Most, if not all, were drunk. Within minutes one of them was dead on the side of a road 200 metres from the Alice Springs CBD.
Alice Springs Council — picking a fight with its own community — and the NT government?
Last night the Corporate and Community Services committee of the Alice Springs Town Council met to decide the future of its controversial by-laws for the management of public spaces.
Alice Springs: still dumb and racist?
A month ago Bob Gosford wrote about how the Alice Springs town council banned street artists, all of whom are indigenous. Do we need a bill of rights to protect individuals against laws like these? asks Gosford.
Council bans Aboriginal street artists — racist or just dumb?
The Alice Springs Town Council is enforcing a local by-law banning Aboriginal street artists from selling their art in downtown Alice. Is it racist or just a stupid move?
Women go the biff in the Alice
Boxing made a welcome return to central Australia this weekend, with fighters from all over the country and a contingent from Ireland descending on Alice Springs to slug it out. Bob Gosford reports from ringside.
PHOTO GALLERY: Triple J’s One Night Stand in Alice Springs
Yoof broadcaster Triple J put on a concert in Alice Springs recently, and Crikey’s Bob Gosford was there with his camera, doing it for the kids.
NT government’s law reforms to fail blackfellas — again
Reform to the committal process in all Australian jurisdictions has been a popular political topic in recent years, and the NT government has been slow in turning it’s mind to this reform process.
"White Power" T-shirt seller charged
The man exposed in Crikey last week for selling ‘White Power Alice Springs’ T-shirts has been charged with offensive behaviour and making a false statement.
Politics has failed climate change
Crikey readers weigh in on climate change and
‘White power’ t-shirts for sale in Alice Springs
As Alice Springs grapples with the alleged bashing death of an Aboriginal man by five young white men, one man has begun selling “Alice Springs White Power” t-shirts and caps. Outside the Council offices…
NT town camp objections highlight past failures
Jenny Macklin’s attempts to change Alice Springs town camp leases are being attacked by Tangentyere council. But Tangentyere’s failures are a perfect example of why reform is needed, writes Bob Durnan.
Alice camps injunction is down to Macklin
The Federal Court has delayed acquisition of Alice Springs town camps. Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin should have seen this coming.
Macklin’s town camp takeover derailed by big guns
Within 24 hours of Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin’s announcement, the town camp takeover had well and truly derailed.
Macklin’s town camp plans stonewalled
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin’s plans for sub-leases on Aboriginal town camp have hit a snag, with the Federal Court granting a temporary injunction following claims town residents were “blackmailed” into the plan.
Thorpe, Dodson: “Stop the blackmail”
A group of prominent Australians, including swimmer Ian Thorpe and Indigenous leader Pat Dodson, have taken out an ad [PDF] in today’s Oz titled “Stop the Blackmail”, opposing the government’s sub-lease plan for Aboriginal town camps.
There’s no Alice town camps deal, not now and not likely
The truth is, the battle for the Alice Springs town camps is just beginning, despite Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin’s latest deal.
Racism is a blanket in Alice Springs
Alice Springs town council is proposing a range of new powers; all pointed to one end: tackling anti-social behaviour. Except, it includes throwing out blankets used by homeless people…
Macklin botches Alice Springs town camp compulsory acquisition
Jenny Macklin has botched the compulsory acquisition of the Alice Springs town camps for the second time in as many months, and now faces the prospect of having to cut a deal with Tangentyere Council.
Aboriginal radio banned from Macklin town meeting
Why did Jenny Macklin’s office refuse to let CAAMA Radio record a town meeting on homes she intends to compulsorily acquire? asks Bob Gosford?
Samson and Delilah under the stars in Alice Springs
The Telegraph Station was an appropriate setting for a film that expresses so much about the communication gap at the heart of this country, writes Elli Rennie.
