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When gas turns to hot air
By ALEX NELSON Gas promises are a hardy perennial for Territory pollies but since the building of the Palm Valley to Alice and Darwin pipelines they have amounted to little more than hot air. The...
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Real jobs? Spin rules.
By ERWIN CHLANDA The spiel about the purchase of 2000 hectares 150 kms north of Alice Springs by a consortium to be known as Territory Table Grape is as old as it is trite. The venture is a...
View ArticleAlice water cap lifted ‘under pressure from political advisers’
By ERWIN CHLANDA Alice Springs based water planner Anne Pye says she was told to “remove the cap from the Alice water plan on the basis of comments from Darwin based political advisers and Darwin...
View ArticleCamels live up to their terrible reputation, crowd delighted
By ERWIN CHLANDA Temperamental, terribly unpredictable and very entertaining is how the organisers of today’s Camel Cup in Alice Springs touted their racing stock – and sure enough the humped beasts...
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Bonjour! Bastille Day in The Alice
The event happened 224 years ago and on the other side of the world, but Alice Springs’ own Froggies Rendez-Vous celebrated with a dinner and Can-Can dancing the day the Paris mobs stormed the...
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NT, Commonwealth initiative to make homelands more viable
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Country Liberals Government is committed to making homelands a viable place to live for Indigenous Territorians with a new funding formula that is focused on equity....
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Sideshow alley, campdraft liven up Show in GFC shadow
By ERWIN CHLANDA The Show Society is still crunching numbers but attendance was around 21,000 over the two day annual event – not bad for a town of 25,000. New president Kevin Heintze, heading up a...
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Rotary women to the fore, honour for prison volunteer
By ERWIN CHLANDA Remember when Rotary was seen as the reserve for stiff upper lip blokes in pinstripe suits? Times have changed – at least in The Alice: two out of three club presidents here are...
View ArticlePresbyterian church re-established in Alice Springs
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Presbyterian Church has returned to Alice Springs after many years. The formal association of the church with outback Australia dates back to 1912, when it asked Rev...
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Turning smelly nuisances into multi million dollar assets
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA All those who haven’t been paying attention to the debate so far, please join me for this back-of-the-envelope exercise on big picture issues confronting Alice Springs,...
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Questions about stroke treatment at Alice hospital
By ERWIN CHLANDA To bust or not to bust, that is the question – and it’s one of life and death. The Alice Springs Hospital does not use clot busting medication, other than Aspirin. But Dr Andrew...
View ArticleIntervention not demonising men
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – I am responding to comments from Des Rogers, Deputy Chief Executive of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress about the Little Children are still Sacred report. I was...
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Alice Springs man wins Telstra award
A business launched by Alice Springs man Christopher Brocklebank (pictured) in 2002 last night won the Micro section of the Telstra NT Business of the Year awards. His venture italklibrary is...
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Boost royalties, distribute CLC assets: Ryan’s fiery agenda
A 50% not 10% royalty for Aborigines from mining anywhere in the Territory, not just on the half under granted under land rights; immediate distribution to traditional owners of the Centrecorp assets...
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Getting all steamed up over water
By ERWIN CHLANDA Water restrictions should not hamper economic development in Alice Springs. That has been the view taken to the town’s Water Advisory Committee since its inception by its...
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Desert Knowledge offshoot turns 10: The Clever One – really?
By ERWIN CHLANDA There is one thing Ninti One – translated as Clever One – has practised persistently in its first decade of operation: spin. Its General Manager Operations, former Alice Springs...
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Giles sticks with his ‘no’ to Gonski
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – I am standing up for Territory students and rejecting Kevin Rudd’s flawed Gonski education formula that says dozens of local schools need less funding. Kevin Rudd and...
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Hugh Winterflood (aka SkankMC) wins NT Song of Year
He run amok in the safe house, disturbing the kids … felt like he ceased to exist, he was a decent fella but he needed a mate, but he couldn’t accept love plagued by demons of hate. These are the...
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The Territory’s $30m homelands conundrum
By ERWIN CHLANDA If you believe there is nothing out there in our wide open spaces beyond the handful of major centres – think again. There are 772 other locations on the Northern Territory...
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Feds put students’ hostel in a place without school
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Federal government is embarking on a desperate plan to shift responsibility and some of the costs for its failed NT indigenous boarding school program to the Northern...
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