I believe that schools have an important role to play in teaching regional Aboriginal languages and thereby ensuring their survival. writes Marion Scrymgour.
NT
NT classrooms limit indigenous languages to 1 hour a day
The NT Minister for Education, Marion Scrymgour, recently announced that indigenous languages can not be used in NT classrooms, except for one hour a day in the afternoons, writes Samanti de Silva.
First NT now WA — hot vote in 08
Everybody loves an early election, writes William Bowe.
Mungo: War and the Olympiad — a history
Russia spoiled my plan to make this column an Olympics free zone, writes Mungo MacCallum.
NT result: bad for the ALP, even worse for pundits
With a minority CLP Government still possible up in the Northern Territory, Saturday’s election was terrible for Paul Henderson’s ALP – but even worse for the pundits, writes Bernard Keane.
No inflation? Check the oil lads
Psst, Brendan Nelson and Mal Turnbull, inflation is rising. Just look at oil prices, writes Glenn Dyer.
NT budget dodges the environment and climate change
The Northern Territory Government missed the chance yesterday to deliver Australia’s first climate change budget, writes Charles Roche.
Tony Fitzgerald: The realities of fighting racism in NT
Incidents such as that involving the Yuendemu women and the Alice Springs backpacker hostel this week are not isolated, and fighting them is fraught with impediments, writes NT Anti Discrimination Commissioner Tony Fitzgerald.
Confessions of a barefoot heckler
Yes I was barefoot, and loud and I did barge into the Prime Minister’s entourage and I should have been a little more polite. The truth, however, is that it was not a set-up, writes Prime Ministerial interrupter and barefoot heckler, Charles Roche.
Why do Aboriginal people have to give up rights for services?
I don’t support the NT intervention, and I happen to think that Mal Brough is an all-singing, all-dancing clown. But I do think Aboriginal kiddies in the central desert finally getting access to a basic health check is a good thing. And I think it’s great that some Aboriginal communities are, for the first time in their history, seeing a full-time police presence.
Land rights revisited: Good politics but terrible public policy
On the political front, it might be a significant symbolic victory for the Howard government to have co-opted a renowned leader of the land rights movement to its current view that traditional owners of townships should encumber their freehold title with 99-year leases to gain equitable access to public housing and utilities. But on the longer-term policy front this victory might be pyrrhic, writes Jon Altman.
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Woolworths asks: how can we enforce grog limits at the checkout?
Under the new alcohol regime in the NT, any licensee or employee of a take-away bottle shop commits an offence if, when selling alcohol with more than 1,350ml of ‘pure’ alcohol content, they do not verify the purchaser’s identity. But how can police and retailers possibly enforce this? writes Bob Gosford.
Tales from the Territory: racism is abuse too
For the last four years, I have worked as a GP in remote NT Aboriginal communities, a position which privileges me to be both doctor and friend to many Aboriginal people, most of whom are delightful, loving, law abiding citizens. Rarely has child sexual abuse been brought to my attention, writes Dr Glynis Johns.
P-rn seized, perspective missing in the NT emergency
Police yesterday seized 32 adult DVDs packaged incorrectly for their classification from a business at a remote Aboriginal community on the east coast of Arnhem Land.
Howard’s land grab: The (d)evil is in the permit detail
There are two parts to Howard’s land grab. The first is the compulsory acquisition of the 64 ‘major Aboriginal communities’ spread across the NT , the second is the changes to the permits system under the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act. Neither ‘initiative’ will do anything about Aboriginal child abuse in the NT. Both measures will ring the death knell for Aboriginal land rights, writes Bob Gosford.
