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Poverty tourism, dysfunction and the lucky country
June 4, 2014
The media's "poverty tourism" to remote NT communities does no good, writes Bob Gosford
Is media freedom in Timor-Leste under threat by a ‘return to dictatorship’?
June 2, 2014
A free press is essential to good democracy and government -- so what next for Timor-Leste's media?
Alison Anderson, John Elferink and the second person accusative.
May 9, 2014
Things are so tense in the NT parliament that a simple grammatical error can trigger a political brawl.
Will Napthine’s new route ruin Melbourne’s Metro?
May 8, 2014
The Victorian government’s promised Melbourne Rail Link replaces the former government’s Metro. It follows a different route but the outcome is a lot better than the early leaks suggested.
Owls want loving too: ethno-ornithology from Zambian schoolchildren
May 5, 2014
In Zambia, owls are often seen as bad omens and killed as a result. Could owl populations be saved by educating the next generation of Zambians?
How the north was won: the battle over an NT byelection
April 14, 2014
Adam Giles will keep his job, and it's all thanks to Alison Anderson -- the "Typhoid Mary" of NT politics.
We will rebuild: the resilience of Darwin
April 4, 2014
Darwin's been destroyed and rebuilt four times. What is it about our most northern city that keeps people coming back?
ASADA, the AFL and WADA – The main game
March 20, 2014
The bloody-minded focus upon a possible assertion of a possible anti-doping case against Essendon players, staff or even Stephen Dank, may well be found to be lacking.
Legal hostilities end in failure for the Aboriginal corporate regulator
February 21, 2014
The very organisation that was attacking small Aboriginal corporations of no commercial consequence for being late with their paperwork itself had an out-of-date data base.
Good money after bad: The NT government and the Ord River Irrigation Scheme
February 14, 2014
How viable will the proposed expansion of the massive Ord River Irrigation scheme be? Governments are bullish but science, the environment, economics and history tell a very different story.
Traditional law v the Westminster system
February 12, 2014
The authors of the Little Children are Sacred report argue it is more likely that Indigenous people will respond positively to their own law and culture than to laws imposed upon them.
Djambuy’s case and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law
February 7, 2014
Creating a legal system where tribal laws work alongside current state regulations is hard work, but definitely possible in the NT.
‘Learning to play the typewriter’: remembering Andrew McMillan
January 30, 2014
Two years on from the Territory scribe's death, Bob Gosford remembers McMillan's rockstar journo past.
Behind the razor wire
January 23, 2014
Polly Hemming taught English to teenagers in immigration detention in Darwin, and found the system hindered more than it helped.
An open letter to the PM’s Indigenous Advisory Group
January 15, 2014
Don MacAskill, Chief Executive Officer of the Awabakal Newcastle Aboriginal Co-Operative, implores Warren Mundine and Tony Abbott to rise above bureaucracy to help Indigenous Australians.
Person of interest: reading your ASIO file, 40 years on
January 14, 2014
Bill Day had a pretty good idea that ASIO was keeping an eye on him as a result of his work with the Aboriginal land rights movement, but finding the documents online still came as a shock.
Back to school in the NT, with bonus enforcers
January 9, 2014
Students in the Northern Territory will start their school year with more truancy officers on the beat, but some locals say it's a publicity stunt that will have minimal impact on school non-attendance.
From South Africa to East Timor: when Gusmao met Mandela
December 10, 2013
East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao spent the 1990s in prison for his anti-Indonesia activities. His efforts attracted the attention of the-then South African Prime Minister, who paid him a visit in an Indonesian jail.
Two territory women, an Australia Day protest and a defamation lawsuit
November 15, 2013
On the afternoon of the 26th of January 2012, Rebecca Healy and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks were near the Aboriginal Tent Embassy across from Old Parliament House in Canberra. What happened next would see them on opposite sides in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.
‘I am a Territory girl …’ Senator Nova Peris’ maiden speech
November 14, 2013
The former Olympian and first Aboriginal person elected to Federal Parliament talks racism, history and failed Interventions in her maiden speech.