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Topic: NT ALP
Last Thursday Ararafura MLA Marion Scrymgour apparently let the serried ranks of the Country Liberal Party Opposition know exactly what she thought of their parliamentary antics by making a 'wanking' gesture. It's part of a grand tradition of indigenous hand signals, writes <b>Bob Gosford</b>.

‘True Territorians’ teased by terrible tosser taunts

Links

Oct 31, 2011

Last night’s <i>Four Corners</i> 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.

A forked tongue on bilingual education in the NT

Northern Territory

Sep 15, 2009

13

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 <b>Bob Gosford</b>.

At least one good reason why the NT should never be a state

Northern Territory

Aug 25, 2009

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.

A new NT Government by Friday — the fix is in at 4 o’clock today

Northern Territory

Aug 10, 2009

7

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.

NT ALP moves into election mode

Northern Territory

Aug 07, 2009

The upheaval in the Northern Territory government could result in the first constitutional test of Australia's move to fixed-term Parliaments, says the <em>ABC</em>'s resident wonk <b>Antony Green</b>. Will the NT ALP sit it out until 2012, or play some tricky numbers games to wrangle an early election?

Territory set to sail uncharted constitutional waters

Australia

Aug 05, 2009

NT Minister Alison Anderson's explosive exit from the state's parliament yesterday was inevitable, says <b>Natasha Robinson</b>: the "bolshie" Anderson was never going to last "watching the machine grind on as her family struggled in poverty".

Robinson: Anderson was a ticking time-bomb

Northern Territory

Aug 05, 2009

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 accuses Henderson of grubby politics

News

Aug 05, 2009

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.

Anderson quits, NT government on the brink

Northern Territory

Aug 04, 2009

16

Marion Scrymgour has had a Damascene conversion that recent NT government policies on blackfellas have been built on lies and deception.

How Scrymgour and homelands might undo NT Labor

Northern Territory

Jun 02, 2009

2

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