Alison Anderson


Alice Springs journos cop heat over underage s-x claims

News Limited journos on Alice Springs’ Centralian Advocate fear they could be charged by police with failing to mandatorily report child abuse allegations after publishing a story purporting to lift the lid on under-age sex in the red centre.

Alison Anderson’s ‘greatest gift’ to NT: a citizen’s right of reply

The introduction of a right of reply may, in a supreme irony, be seen as the most enduring legacy of Alison Anderson’s political career.

Anderson’s spray at an ABC journo, under the cloak of parliamentary privilege

Should politicians be able to defame people under parliamentary priviledge?

Has Anderson finally gone bush and joined the “anti-interventionistas”?

After consistently supporting the Northern Territory Intervention, former MLA Alison Anderson appears to have done a political backflip and withdrawn her approval of the program, reports Bob Gosford.

Gerry Woods saves “peace, order and good government” in the NT

In a busy day up north, Alison Anderson has resigned from NT parliament and independent Gerry Wood has saved the Labor government. Bob Gosford and David Curl discuss the latest developments.

Independent likely to support NT Labor?

Rumours are circulating that NT Independent MLA Gerry Wood will vote to support the Labor government remaining in power so as to disrupt the NT economy, writes Ken Parish.

NT ALP moves into election mode

The Northern Territory government has switched into election mode, as it faces the very real prospect that the Territory will go back to the polls following the exit of renegade MP Alison Anderson.

Robinson: Anderson was a ticking time-bomb

NT Minister Alison Anderson’s explosive exit from the state’s parliament yesterday was inevitable, says Natasha Robinson: the “bolshie” Anderson was never going to last “watching the machine grind on as her family struggled in poverty”.

Anderson accuses Henderson of grubby politics

NT Indigenous Affairs Minister Alison Anderson has told Chief Minister Paul Henderson there is no way she will return, slamming him in the press and saying he “has the dirt of racial politics on his hands.”

Anderson quits, NT government on the brink

The ALP may have lost the numbers in the NT parliament, after Minister for Indigenous Policy, Alison Anderson, walked out on her cabinet post this afternoon.

How Scrymgour and homelands might undo NT Labor

Marion Scrymgour has had a Damascene conversion that recent NT government policies on blackfellas have been built on lies and deception.

Tips and rumours: The great Papunya population mystery

Does Indigenous policy minister Alison Anderson have a hometown advantage? And is Oz editor Chris Mitchell finally stepping in between Nicolas Rothwell and Paul Toohey?

Tips and rumours: Is the Turnbull household about to go on the nuts and berries diet?

Lucy Turnbull eats locally, NT media management goes awry, and what’s Monash Uni to do with their over-65s?