Last night’s Four Corners did a pretty good job on the current state of bilingual education in the NT, showing the NT government’s lack of support for the program.
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At least one good reason why the NT should never be a state
Amongst all the chaos in the NT recently, none of the press — local or national — or appear to have caught the real back-story of how Canberra’s law saved Henderson’s flailing government, says Bob Gosford.
A new NT Government by Friday — the fix is in at 4 o’clock today
Today an extraordinary sitting of the NT Legislative Assembly will begin the inevitable process of knocking Paul Henderson’s sorry failure of a Labor government on the head.
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.
Territory set to sail uncharted constitutional waters
The upheaval in the Northern Territory government could result in the first constitutional test of Australia’s move to fixed-term Parliaments, says the ABC’s resident wonk Antony Green. Will the NT ALP sit it out until 2012, or play some tricky numbers games to wrangle an early election?
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.
