“Garrkan: an avian ‘troublemaker for fire'” – presentation to the Raptor Research Foundation conference, Charlotte, NC October 2024
I’m in the wonderful city of Charlotte in North Carolina, and later today I’ll present my paper updating our research into fire-spreading raptors in the Top End of the Northern Territory in Australia at the [...]
Why Labor will win the 2024 NT election: A chat with noted psephologist Doctor Advocatus Diaboli
The NT election will be held tomorrow, 24 August 2024. I now reckon that Eva Lawler’s Australian Labor Party (ALP) will squeak back to office with either a one-seat majority or as a minority government [...]
The Sports – Live at Billboard. Melbourne, 1981
The Sports Live At Billboard 1981 is the 42nd release of the Australian Road Crew Association’s (ARCA) Desk Tape Series. Many years ago while based in a land far away – well, Melbourne – I [...]
Who’ll win the NT election? Fuck knows …
Bob Gosford reports from Darwin As I noted earlier this year, 2024 will be a big year for elections. Yesterday’s issue of the writ kicked off the NT election on Saturday 24 August that will [...]
Bunggul with Boots on!
A Special Report from Football Correspondent H.G. Nelson at the 2024 Barunga Festival The Arnhem Crows – 2024 AFLNTW Barunga Festival Grand Final winners Footy Heads, Barunga Festival 2024 was a humungous array of craft, [...]
The vernacular architecture of Ltyentye Apurte racecourse, NT
A few years back I was lucky enough to get out to the (semi) annual horse races at Ltyentye Apurte (also known as Santa Teresa), a small community east of Alice Springs. You can see [...]
Darwin’s Lee Point and the NIYBY’s (Not In Your Back Yard)
The recent news – see the grab below – that a group of southern Fly-In-and then later Fly-Out workers were threatening not to return to work in the Northern Territory was met with entirely predictable [...]
Keith Olbermann on O.J. Simpson: “He’s dead now, and it is times like these I hope that there really is a hell”
The O.J. Simpson known to the public, to TV audiences, movie audiences, sports audiences, was an utter fabrication. I knew he had hit his wife.
Meshell Ndegeocello, Factory Theatre, Sydney. 25th March 2024
Meshell Ndegeocello has been on my mind since her side-shows in Sydney and Melbourne were announced ahead of two dates at Bluesfest in Byron Bay. You couldn’t get me to Bluesfest if you paid me [...]
Meshell Ndegeocello reckons the world would be a better place if Dolly Parton were President!
Meshell Ndegeocello was at her go-to repository of auditory delights—Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles last October showing off her tote bag of goodies as part of their irregular, funny and revealing "Whats [...]