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Will Blain win put Giles at risk?
I wonder just how much the recent Blain by-election will work in our Chief Minister’s favour. By holding the seat for the CLP, Nathan Barrett has ensured that the current government will see out its...
View ArticleLETTER: Give up the grog, as a town
Sir – I spent my childhood and growing up years in Alice Springs and have visited the town I used to love and regard as “My Heart” More than 20 times since leaving back in the mid sixties. Most of...
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Stop loitering, pass new law if needed
What appears to be a relapse into the out of control street behaviour that was the norm a few years ago has given cause for real concern throughout the community. The very last thing a community...
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Wide Open Space: Zeitgeist goes bush
Central Australia is jiggling with excitement as it prepares itself for its sixth Wide Open Space festival. To those who have not yet had the pleasure, do yourself a favour and take the plunge. For...
View ArticleYouth crime: ‘Shameful reality on shoulders of parents, guardians’
Police are providing increased presence in and around the CBD, with a focus on targeting young people on the streets at night and to crackdown on youth crime, says Assistant Commissioner Jamie Chalker....
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Bring back youth street workers: Paech
Alice Springs Town Councillor is starting a petition calling on the NT Government to reinstate after hours youth street workers. Cr Chansey Paech (pictured) said while they welcomed the NT...
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Do police take action against carers of young delinquents?
By ERWIN CHLANDA Why do police not prosecute parents and carers who fail to provide their children with the necessities of life? The Australian Law Reform Commission includes in those “a duty to...
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Mercilessly enforcing rules against drunks, thieves, deadbeats
I grew up when Central Australia was still a pretty wild place. The homestead at White Gums, because of very rough roads, and was an hour’s drive from town. It was situated just off the walking...
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Let the Anderson show continue …
Every once in a while something really good makes it through the fog of half-truths and media spin that passes for our daily news. Today we learn that Alison Anderson and her two mates, Larisa Lee...
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Why Alice Springs’ own ocean beach is doing so well
By ERWIN CHLANDA Both communities strive to make a good living from the spectacular beauty of their landscapes and other assets. Alice Springs has the West MacDonnells, Ayers Rock and the vast...
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My sister was killed, allegedly in an alcohol fueled incident
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – Yesterday I woke to a phone call telling me my sister had been killed. I am devastated. Violence against any person should not be tolerated in our society regardless of...
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Two new supreme courts, no expenses spared
By ERWIN CHLANDA The NT Government endlessly gripes about the debt left to it by its Labor predecessor. Why is it now seeking tenders for two new supreme courts, no expenses spared? The brief for...
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Should their parents, carers be prosecuted?
By ERWIN CHLANDA An experienced local youth worker, Matty Day, says there may well be children in Alice Springs who are denied the necessities of life by their parents or carers – a criminal offence....
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We need to spend more, not less, to get out of the slump
Infrastructure for future Alice. Some may argue, as indeed they have, that it is not the time for what appears to be lavish spending on infrastructure such as the proposed new court houses. I would...
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Law enforcement leads changes to CBD
Location, location, location. I think that real estate mantra sums up why the former video shop then Government’s Alcohol Courts opposite Billy Goat Hill will not be converted into a Supreme Court....
View ArticleAlice mountain bike classic attracts 200 competitors
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – Close to 200 riders have already signed up for the award-winning Ingkerreke Commercial mountain bike Enduro from May 19 to 23, with all states represented. This year’s...
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Bicycle riding and narcissism
I once bought a Jeep with leather seats just to impress a man. It worked. A couple of weeks later that man was sitting beside me in that very Jeep. I forget his name … I just remember that I felt...
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Munching concrete
“It chews concrete,” says Andy Lyons whose company, North Concrete, owns this machine. It is deployed today on the demolition of the old Commonwealth Bank Building, in Parsons Street, the location...
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Tiger flights chop out of the blue
By ERWIN CHLANDA The announcement that Tiger flights to Alice Springs will cease again came out of the blue, and follows Tourism NT spending about $700,000 in the past 12 months promoting holidays in...
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Thousands of bikers heading for Alice
By ERWIN CHLANDA They’re coming: An estimated 3000 to 4000 bikers aged over 40 are heading to Alice Springs for the AGM of the Ulysses Club (motto: “growing old disgracefully”). The national...
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