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NT washup: desperately seeking stability
“Peace for our time” read the paper held aloft in the Darwin Parliament last Friday, when MP Gerry Wood announced that he would keep the embattled ALP in power. But, peace is a trouble concept.
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.
“Operation Stimulus”: tinkering with Territory tenders
When the NT Government decides somehow that it wants something to happen, it does not first check on the marketplace or turn to the subtle tools of market intervention, writes Dr David Curl.
Scrymgour resigns after NT ministry reshuffle
Late yesterday afternoon Marion Scrymgour tearfully announced her resignation as Deputy Chief Minister and from her various Ministries, writes Bob Gosford.
Whitewash! Territory’s black budget underspend coverup
The NT Government has spent only 50% of the funding allocated to it for services to Indigenous communities, writes Graham Ring.
Mungatopi up on drug charges
Northern Territory Country Liberal Party candidate and prominent indigenous Catholic Tristan Mungatopi has been charged with drug possession, writes Bernard Keane.
Local Government in the NT – Howard & Brough’s plan for privatisation by stealth?
Local Government in the NT has been in a mess for decades and Howard and Brough’s intervention is about to make it a lot worse, according to Kerry Moir, President of the NT’s Local Government Association.
Tips and rumours
Joe Hockey is being courted by Jenny Craig. No joke.
Did the organisers of Make Poverty History approach the ALP offering to put the concerts in marginal electorates? Check out where it’s being held: Adelaide (Marginal Labor), Bendigo (Marginal Labor), Batemans Bay (Eden-Monaro, Marginal Liberal), Ballina (Marginal National)…that’s 4 out of 6 venues (way above the average […]
Territory ALP approved the Howard plan — in 2005
The government’s radical plan for Aboriginal Australia wasn’t news to Tricia Smith. The ALP member, who’s taught in remote indigenous communities — at the coalface — since 1993, raised many of the ideas as motions at the Northern Territory ALP conference at the end of 2005.
Richard Farmer: time to play Prime Minister
Six months spent sniping at real and perceived character weaknesses of Kevin Rudd have not ended the new Labor Leader’s honeymoon. A popular budget with tax and other handouts for all, while still maintaining the reputation for fiscal rectitude, has come and gone with the opinion polls hardly bouncing.
