Darwin


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.