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The freedom of the press still furnishes that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide – Chicago Tribune.
The freedom of the press still furnishes that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide – Chicago Tribune.
Locky Weir in his new JIMCO Prolite came first in the Arid Offroad NT Titles Round 1 at Mt Ooramina where 10 local entries vied for good placings. PADDY WEIR reports.
By ERWIN CHLANDA Transparency is a very one-sided proposition for the Central Land Council (CLC): It wants the news media to publish its positions but it won’t give answers to questions the media put to them. That’s certainly the experience of the Alice Springs News with this secretive organisation which, like other Aboriginal land councils […]
By ERWIN CHLANDA Landcare NT won’t be joining the “activists and economic vandals” as Joshua Burgoyne calls them. The Environment Minister isn’t talking about his government that will give an annual gift – no water rates to be paid – of 40 billion litres of Territory water a year, for 30 years, to the Chinese owned […]
By NEILL RETALLICK Two Australians. Born thousands of miles apart into very different circumstances, the only tenuous connection being their humble beginnings and strong desire to contribute to their communities. Many people have fought to improve rights for Indigenous Australians, but few have done more than Dr H C “Nugget” Coombs and Charles Perkins (pictured). […]
By MIKE GILLAM Another fire was raging in the river and concerned groups of locals gathered on the Wills Terrace causeway to watch in horror and hurt as several trees were engulfed in flames. I was taking photographs to record this latest outrage when the screech of a galah demanded my attention. At the fire’s […]
By ALEX NELSON During most of the 2000s I worked at the Olive Pink Botanic Garden, and two decades ago gained an insight into just how zealous keen birdwatchers and twitchers can be when news spread of sightings of an obscure little bird, the grey honeyeater, at the botanic garden. This was prompted by observations […]
The Central Desert Regional Council has sent “to the legal team” questions from the Alice Springs News about car expenses for its President, Adrian Dixon (pictured). No answers were given by Regional Manager Shiju Thomas. The President is entitled to have one car but usually has two: “The President may choose to have a dedicated […]
Letter to the Editor Treasurer Jim Chalmers, in his Budget speech stated: “And we’re easing pressure on the housing market by banning foreign investors from buying established homes, and cracking down on foreign land banking as well.” Foreign investors have been prohibited from buying established homes since 1975. Regardless, politicians continue to blame investors, foreigners […]
By ERWIN CHLANDA Pine Gap isn’t the Centre’s only chip in the current global defence poker game. The pot includes two antennae on the ground, each some three kilometres long, north-west and north-east of Alice Springs (pictured). And Canada is having the better hand than Donald Trump. The facilities are part of the Jindalee Operational […]
By ERWIN CHLANDA The Territory Education Department maintains statistics on racial grounds, comparing the school attendance rate of Aboriginal children with that of Non-Aboriginal children. The difference is around 30% in favour of the latter – a margin that in most other fields would spark public outrage. Yet in these statistics, collected for at least […]