The sporting dreams of teenage boys can often be fairly predictable. But what about the dreams of Hazara boys awaiting their application for asylum? In letters to Crikey, they still aspire to sporting glory, but it’s John Howard, not a sporting rival, that they dream of beating.
Darwin
The Swamp Jockeys reunion: live at the Darwin Railway Club
The Swamp Jockeys are part of that great tradition of Australian bands that play for the sheer fun of it. In their day they were right up there with the best pub-rock in the country and Bob Gosford was at the reunion concert at Darwin Railway Club, strumming his fingers and standing on the beer soaked carpet.
Next stop, the Darwin Airport Motel: home to 150 asylum seeker teens
There are around 150 boys aged 14 to 17 currently locked up in the Darwin Airport Motel who have not left the building since April. Pamela Curr went to visit them.
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.
Branding Australian cities: pride of place or pointless PR?
Big news in Melbourne today: Mayor Robert Doyle has spent $240,000 on a new logo for the city. But is it any good? We compare and contrast with other city brands from around this wide brown land.
“Bad luck” NT court decision: white defendant, black victim
The plight of the Aboriginal person in the Northern Territory legal system is truly awful — and that goes for victims of crime as well as defendants.
Doing lunch, Darwin style
A select crew were invited to lunch in Darwin, with at least two long-standing grudges that, stirred up by a bit of monsoonal heat and lashings of grog, could very likely bust open, writes Bob Gosford.
