Too smart by half at the Sunday Terror – the Berrimah Line still rules …
To set the record straight - there is no "Marion Dam" at Tennant Creek. There is however, a "Mary Ann Dam" (known as Tingkkarli to the Warumungu traditional owners and native title custodians) situated just through the gap north of the town. Construction commenced in 1979 and Mary Ann Dam was opened by local MLA (and later NT Chief Minister) Ian Tuxworth in 1981.
Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 10 – Prime Minister Paul Keating’s Redfern Park Speech, 10 December 1992
There is one thing today we cannot imagine. We cannot imagine that the descendants of people whose genius and resilience maintained a culture here through fifty thousand years or more, through cataclysmic changes to the climate and environment, and who then survived two centuries of dispossession and abuse, will be denied their place in the modern Australian nation. We cannot imagine that. We cannot imagine that we will fail.
Sacred cows in a bloody class action: Brett Cattle Company v The Commonwealth
All up the bill for lawyers alone in the Brett Cattle Company matter might be $12 million plus loose change and walking around money.
Bird of the Week: A Pelican for Ltyentye Apurte? Yeah, Nah, Yeah …
In Kaytetye country the Pelican is known as walaymperre, as in Walaymperre thangkerne alkenhe arntwe arenye, repe ware elpalhapenye kape arltere. Thangkerne nyartelepe aynenke aylperre kape pwele-pwele.
How I came to Art, by David Hawkes
In my mind suddenly I saw that your reality wasn’t shaped by circumstance but by your imagination.
Constable David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman. Part 5. “All I have is a crusade”
“We must remove white police from the aboriginal reserves – and we must tell the black man: 'Don’t you leave your reserve all you will be subject to the white man’s law'. David Jennings, November 1978
David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman. Part 4. The lies of Constable David Jennings.
“The black of Australia, the full blood or the tribal black, is being led to believe by the Governments, by the half-caste city dweller that has only seen pictures of settlements and by organisations like Legal Aid et cetera, that he had a rightful place in the white community. “Nothing is further than the truth. Who wants included in our society, illiterate, unclean, drunken bludgers, who cannot even sign their names on the Government checks, who is allowed to sign those checks with the cross because he’s too lazy or too ignorant to learn even to write his own name."
Constable David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman. Part 3. Taking PR advice from the Klan
"Territory Ku Klux Klansman, David Jennings, has been advised by his American counterparts on how to use even an unwilling press to get his message across. David Jennings resigned from the Northern Territory Police Force last week, one day before he was due to face internal hearing on charges relating to claims of Ku Klux Klan activity in the Territory."
Constable David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman. Part 2: From KKK “White Giant” to an “embarrassment to the force”
NT News. Klan has HQ in the NT This is part two of a series that charts the short history of the Ku Klux Klan in the Northern Territory of Australia and the involvement of [...]
Impeach the President! US Editors speak
"The facts show that the president has threatened this country’s core values and the integrity of our democracy. Congress now has a duty to future generations to impeach him." Boston Globe Editorial. 5 December 2019.