Saturday, January 18, 2025

The freedom of the press still furnishes that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide – Chicago Tribune.

Cleared for take-off?

By ERWIN CHLANDA Check the thermometer and smile, if you are a glider pilot, that is: Central Australia in summer is the world’s best place...

How much gas talk is hot air?

By ERWIN CHLANDA Take out the hype and Beetaloo gas is a pretty thin project. The sub-basin, 900 km north of Alice Springs, is “estimated” to...

Democratic government disappeared into a Mafia-like den of secrecy

COMMENT by DON FULLER Dr Fuller provided this text in part to expand on the comments by editor ERWIN CHLANDA in the New Year's Day...

Saving Alice in 2025: it starts today

Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA My journalistic work in the Territory began early on Christmas Day 1974, looking down from the aircraft of Deputy Prime Minister...

Cricket icon celebrates Central Australian achievers

Review by MARK SMITH A significant part of the new book by Australian Test cricket captain Pat Cummins, Tested, is devoted to achievers from from...

People without power

Dear Editor, I write with concern about the plight of the thousands of Territorians who rely on prepaid electricity to keep their lights on each...

Nature never takes a holiday: What Cyclone Tracy means for us today

By ALEX NELSON As 2024 winds down unsurprisingly much attention is directed to the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy which destroyed Darwin in the early hours...

Youth crime: More meetings

By ERWIN CHLANDA To get a handle on the town’s catastrophic crime wave the NT Government is putting its money on more police, which for...

The international dimension of a local traffic offence

By KIERAN FINNANE There’s no question that they did it: on 27 November last year, in the middle of Hatt Road, two people, Carmen...

Youth crime kept in the shadow

By ERWIN CHLANDA The public isn’t going to learn much from official channels about the bashing – alleged – with a blunt weapon of a...

Lowering legal age to 10 meaningless: Lambley

By ERWIN CHLANDA If you got all excited at your last Eastside BBQ about the new CLP Government lowering the legal age of criminal responsibility...

Finke Desert Race court action stopped

By ERWIN CHLANDA Action against Finke Desert Race Inc by the NT Motor Accident Commission over the death of a spectator has been stopped. A Notice...

Six storeys, and vested interest questions

By ERWIN CHLANDA The new government has inherited a conundrum from its Labor predecessor which made a deal for 72 units with the latest intending...

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