Council’s focus is on all youth, not those with ‘social challenges’
By KIERAN FINNANE
The Town Council’s newly announced youth programs will be for “all young people”, offering “more engaging activities” in town and won’t be targeting “behaviour”.
Councillor Jimmy Cocking offered this clarification when Cr Eli...
Zachary Rolfe seeks to have trial moved to Darwin
Zachary Rolfe’s defence team are seeking to have his trial moved to Darwin. The application will be opposed by the prosecution.
Defence counsel has asked for their lengthy written submissions supporting the application suppressed, at...
A touch of light: the magic of feathers and pigments in the sun
By MIKE GILLAM
Photo© Mike Gillam
In the great cities of the world, sparrows (including different races, hybrids and species) and feral pigeons compete for crumbs beneath the café tables. Closer to home, native crested pigeons,...
The buffel kerfuffle: how one species quietly destroys native wildlife and cultural sites in...
By Christine Schlesinger, Ellen Ryan-Colton, Jennifer Firn, & John Read*
Republished from The Conversation, November 16, 2020.
Many of us are aware of the enormous destruction feral cats inflict on Australia’s native wildlife, but there’s another introduced...
Hotels to get “surge capacity” after COVID fiasco
UPDATE 4.30pm: Greater Adelaide to be revoked as a hotspot tomorrow. Those undertaking quarantine will be able to exit.
By ERWIN CHLANDA
Alice Springs has 1400 guest rooms, not counting the Mercure, now known as the...
Predictable COVID rush across the border takes NT by surprise
By ERWIN CHLANDA
Alice Springs is not coping well with the results of a COVID outbreak in South Australia, causing a not unexpected stream of people returning and needing to be quarantined, tested and some...
Managing the politics of Pine Gap as a target: build a wall of silence
By KIERAN FINNANE
There are plans to protect civilian populations in the case of a military attack on Australian soil, but they’re “classified”.
This is as much as authorities would come up with on my...
Minister says ‘no’ to 51 blocks in Stegar Road
By ERWIN CHLANDA
Planning Minister Eva Lawler has refused an Exceptional Development Permit (EDP) for 51 residential blocks in Stegar Road in the suburb of Ross.
She says she rejected the application, lodged by Craig Lambley...
“Look, his first fly.”
By ERWIN CHLANDA
"The Crown" missed the punchline and got the weather wrong when it showed Prince Charles, Princess Di and little William disembarking in Alice Springs from their flight from London, on March 3,...
Boxers beat COVID: Open air bouts on Saturday under lights
By ERWIN CHLANDA
Nearly 30 Territory boxers and possibly two from South Australia will contest an open-air tournament at the Youth and Community Centre, at the base on Anzac Hill, under lights on Saturday.
Matt Moss...
Lawns for emperors and for enthusiasts
Magnificent lawns and gardens surround the Baroque Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, formerly the 1441 rooms summer pad for the Habsburg emperors, dating back to 1569. The name translates as "beautiful fountain" and has its...
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