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A forked tongue on bilingual education in the NT

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.

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.

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.

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.

One thing is black and white, NT Labor’s time is up

While many of the failures of Labor in the NT have been felt by the wider NT electorate, it is no coincidence that Henderson’s government has been brought to its knees by an Aboriginal woman, writes Bob Gosford.

Scrymgour dumped as NT education minister

NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson has acted and dumped Marion Scrymgour from the key portfolio of Education, writes Bob Gosford.

The NT: the election we didn’t have to have

This weekend Northern Territorians get to go to an early election. But how about some responsible governing to go with that? NT correspondent Anthony Fraser reports.