The Northern Territory pastoral farming industry is not economically viable, it is not ecologically sustainable, and it is an obstacle to obtaining wise fire management in the NT, declares Strider on The Northern Myth.
Northern Territory
Essential: What do voters think about Territory rights?
Labor, Liberal and Greens voters all feel strongly on the idea that territories’ laws can be overridden on the whim of Federal Ministers — they dislike it.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey’s top end tall story
Crikey readers have their say.
Indigenous workers are getting screwed under the SIHIP program
Two of my employment consultants have received a number of complaints from CDEP participants about being underpaid for working on Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP) projects using CDEP as a vehicle, writes Carl Russelhuber, Employment Services Manager, CatholicCare NT.
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Three days in the southern Tanami
Bob Gosford spent three days driving around the southern fringes of the Tanami Desert to the north-west of Alice Springs. Check out his incredible photos of blood-red sunsets, starry nights and dazzling blue outback skies.
NT education policy is a giant croc
Both state and federal governments are launching all kinds of madcap schemes to lure kids back to school in the NT. Hopefully this will lead to the beginning of the end for its “magic realist” education policy, writes Piers Kelly.
Slavery returns to Top End
Today, workers at the small townships of Kalkaringi and Dagaragu in the Victoria River district of the Northern Territory will be out on strike over their pay and conditions. As Bob Gosford reports, it’s a case of history repeating.
Digging the joys of Jabiru, Kakadu
When Ben Hagemann was offered a mining job in the NT, he figured it’d be a nice way to see the Top End. He wasn’t expecting radiation poisoning, drink driving escapades and beautiful rainbow serpent stories.
Life under NT’s profit-based royalty regime: Xstrata has no complaints
Under the Northern Territory’s profit-based royalty regime, Xstrata’s McArthur River mine has only paid royalties for 2 years out of the 15 years it has been operating.
Back to the future with Ferguson’s nuclear waste legislation
Martin Ferguson says he will repeal the Howard Government’s legislation for a nuclear waste dump. Only problem is, his replacement legislation is exactly the same in critical areas.
How to site a nuclear waste dump
Labor’s opposition to an NT waste dump before the last election will return to haunt it as Martin Ferguson unveils a permanent waste facility this week. Where was the consent and consultation?
Reality bites the “grand visions” of Northern Development – again
The idea of developing a bounteous “food bowl” that could ensure Australia’s food security long into the future has been a recurring political dream. But like most dreams, they usually get mugged by the grim realities of science and economics.
“Doomed to fail”: NT local govt reform goes crazy
Bob Gosford continues his investigation into troubling local government reform in the Territory, where scathing reports are emerging about the bungled implementation of a new IT system.
A tribute to my plague of beautiful camp dogs
In a different take on the gratuitous ‘look at my cute puppies!’ post, Bob Gosford introduces us to his motley crew of camp dogs that he’s played with, fed, walked and buried over the last three years.
Roadkill of the week: Jayco poptop caravan
“Rust In Peace” is scrawled on the side of the sorry remains of this poor little Jayco pop-top caravan abandoned about 50 metres off the Central Arnhem Road, writes Bob Gosford.
Garrett stops croc hunts
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has blocked a proposal from the NT Government that would have allowed tourists to hunt 25 large crocs under a saltwater crocodile management plan.
NT Govt under pressure over “insane” laws harming teenagers
The NT Government is under growing pressure to rethink laws requiring health professionals to report all under-age teenage patients they suspect of being s-xually active, writes Melissa Sweet.
Wedgetail plucked: defence planning project fail?
A crucial two week war games trial of one of the troubled Wedgetail airborne early warning and command aircraft in the Northern Territory has been “inconclusive”.
Marion Scrymgour: it’s time I said something
There is too much ongoing misinformation from whitefellas like Bob Gosford who can just walk away from the plight that faces our people, writes Marion Scrymgour.
Northern Territory leads the way in taking the coroner seriously
At last — a little light shines on the nether world of the coronial inquest, writes Bob Gosford.
YouTube captures the NT’s most toxic culture
There’s a very special class of Australian who also happens to belong to the worst culture on earth: police culture, writes ,b>Chris Graham.
Classroom English will be the death of Aboriginal languages
Retention of Aboriginal languages should matter to all of us, says longtime NT teacher Wendy Baarda.
Safe houses in the NT – a $21 million “massive stuff-up”
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has labelled the NT intervention safe house initiative a “massive stuff-up,” reports Bob Gosford.
