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Ode to a Sombrero: Neil Murray
Music Review by RUSSELL GUY Occasionally, something comes your way – out of the winter chill, down a long road, whipped up by summer storms and whirly whirlies big enough to carry your humpy or your...
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Call to block oil and gas exploration at King’s Canyon
Traditional owners of Watarrka (King’s Canyon) National Park are strongly opposed to an application by Palatine Energy Pty Ltd to begin oil and gas exploration in the park and are demanding that the NT...
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Grog sellers liable, drinkers need permits: summit demands
Requiring buyers of alcohol to have a permit, even in major centres such as Alice Springs; making sellers of alcohol share liability for accidents or crimes in which grog is a factor; and motivating...
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Live cattle industry ‘still a political pawn for Labor’
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – Federal Labor’s decision to appoint an Inspector-General for Animal Welfare and Live Exports is meant to appeal to Labor’s left but will just add another layer of...
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Tele medicine could bring new stroke cure to Alice
By ERWIN CHLANDA A tele medicine system bringing revolutionary clot busting treatment to stroke victims in regional hospitals such as Alice Springs is being developed. For “eligible” sufferers...
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Violence must stop. Forgiveness must rule.
By ERWIN CHLANDA The laid-back, slow, lazy mood in the outback town of Yuendumu can snap into one of high drama and heart-wrenching emotion in the blink of an eye. Today, the 50th anniversary of the...
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Footy glory for Centre’s best lasts just a weekend
By ERWIN CHLANDA Once a year a small remote town north-west of Alice Springs is the place to meet the top crop of young men in the nation’s desert centre. But their glory is brief: when the...
View ArticleCoalition agenda includes nation’s longest short-cut
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Outback Way is included in the Coalition’s Northern Australia Policy which is highlighting a significant vision for Australia’s future. Our submission to the Northern...
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Voting for change? Don’t hold your breath.
By ERWIN CHLANDA If you’re getting all excited about the September 7 election – don’t. That, in a nutshell, is the advice of the CDU’s Alice Springs based Professorial Research Fellow Rolf...
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Container deposit scheme: it’s all go!
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Territory’s Container Deposit Scheme has cleared the final hurdle following the Federal Executive Council’s decision to grant national recognition yesterday. I have...
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Fracking may be used but horizontal drilling will be preferred
By ERWIN CHLANDA The oil and gas company Blue Energy Limited has entered into an agreement for exploration in an area roughly the size of England, north-west of Tennant Creek (see map). Chairman...
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Roads, 457 visas, growth towns: Chamber of Commerce
By ERWIN CHLANDA Better roads and more bridges, less red tape with 457 visas and opportunities in growth towns for private enterprise are on the national elections wish list of the local Chamber of...
View ArticleConsumers to pay for flawed container deposit tax
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The announcement by the Northern Territory Government that it will reinstate its failed Cash for Containers Scheme means that consumers will bear the cost of what is...
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Road planning in a roundabout way
COMMENT by ALEX NELSON The construction of a roundabout at the intersection of Undoolya Road and Sturt Terrace completes an odd example of the management of traffic flow in Alice Springs. There are...
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Snap, Rupert!
By ERWIN CHLANDA Spot the difference. None? You’re almost right – only the page folio is different: July 2, 2009 (the one on the left) and the other, today, August 9, 2013. Yet the ad’s main text...
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Snowdon ‘pork-barreling with other people’s money’
Tina McFarlane (left), Country Liberals candidate for Lingiari, has in a media release accused Warren Snowdon of “raiding the NT Aboriginals Benefits Account (ABA) to pork-barrel his election...
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Green future for Alice: how much wishful thinking?
The local environmental lobby’s draft “road map to a desert smart town” can be seen a wish list for the Federal elections, it but goes well beyond that focus – and could do with a robust reality check....
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What the Feds can do for our tourism
By ERWIN CHLANDA Keep them going or, better still, put more money into two initiatives boosting their industry is at the top of the Tourism Central Australia (TCA) Federal election wish list. TCA...
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People to get back their voice in local government: Minister
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Country Liberals Government is fulfilling an election commitment by introducing a Bill at the next sittings to make changes to the Local Government Act to give people...
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A fete made in Alice
By ERWIN CHLANDA Down in the dumps about gloom and doom and all that in The Alice? Well, let this cheer you up. Figures aren’t finalised yet, but it looks like the annual Old Timers Fete on...
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