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Awash in money, not success
The West MacDonnells should be a much greater tourism drawcard. By ERWIN CHLANDA The cost benefit Queensland is reaping from its government tourism promoter is more than five times greater than...
View ArticleStrong interest in north east gas pipeline
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir - We have received 14 expressions of Interest from companies interested in building the proposed gas pipeline linking the Northern Territory to the East Coast gas grid, from...
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Melanka building would obscure unequalled backdrop
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Committee of Heritage Alice Springs Inc. has deep concerns about the proposed development of an eight-storey building at the former Melanka Lodge site. There is an...
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Alice’s Anna Miers tops the Territory
Anna Miers, from the Centralian Senior College, is the Territory’s top NTCET student scoring an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) of 99.9. St Philip’s College student Ella Syme came equal...
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Crime again where it was when CLP came to power
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The NT Police Crime Statistics ending October 2014 reveal that it has taken no less than 797 days for the CLP Government to get violent crime down to around the same levels...
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Local firms short-changed by government: councillor
By ERWIN CHLANDA An Alice Springs Town Councillor and CLP supporter has hit out at government-sanctioned practices which he says disadvantage local businesses tendering for public works. Steve...
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Keep MVR open, says Opposition
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The CLP Government is closing the Motor Vehicle Registry (MVR) in the last week of the year, from Monday 29 to Wednesday 31 December, and as a result shutting down car...
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Inspiration from the roads of a big country
Sunset on the Barkly. By ERWIN CHLANDA We get our underpants and televisions from China. We don’t know how to competitively build motor cars. Our submarines are expensive and no good for warfare....
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More bike, car places in the 40th Finke
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Tatts Finke Desert Race 2015 will have 110 places in the car section and 600 places in the bike section. There is incredible interest in the 40th Finke and we...
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A climate of local opportunity for 2015
COMMENT by JIMMY COCKING (pictured with TV personality Tanya Ha) 2014 was the hottest year on record and 2015 is likely to trump it. There is no denying the thermometer of global mean...
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The weapon police cannot find is sometimes a car
PHOTO: Above – Police searching crime scene of fatal hit and run near Tennant Creek. (Pic courtesy NT Police.) Below – The writer a short time after becoming a hit and run victim in November 2013; in...
View ArticleSniffing suspected of having killed boy, 12
Initial investigations have led police to believe that the use of inhalants were a factor in the death of a boy, aged 12, on Saturday evening in the center of Alice Springs. Southern Watch Commander...
View ArticleIs there no law in The Alice?
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – Recently I witnessed a lady coming out of the Alice Plaza with her lunch and she was struck down by a young lad on his pushbike on the footpath. Two ambulances attended...
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Income management misses mark: Report
By ERWIN CHLANDA Income Management, with the BasicsCard as its major tool, has made little difference to alcohol sales, and “rather than building capacity and independence, for many the program...
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Govt job goes to head of liquidated firm
By ERWIN CHLANDA The NT Government has awarded a contract to an Alice Springs firm whose principal, Brendan Ross Peterkin (picture from his Facebook site), is linked to a company that was wound up in...
View ArticleIf bogged stay with your vehicle: Police
Police are urging motorists bogged in the current treacherous road conditions not to leave their vehicles. “Walking off to get help often results in people getting lost or dehydrated which may have...
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4GX for some while much of Alice in mobile stone age
By ERWIN CHLANDA Telstra is introducing is introducing its 4GX mobile service to sections of Alice Springs while extensive areas – especially south of the range (see map) – are still on 3G with no...
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Kilgariff flood not as bad as it looks: Govt
A government spokesman says the Kilgariff subdivision, although it looks more like Lake Kilgariff, has weathered its first major rains well. “The flooding on site yesterday did not affect housing...
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Intending Desert Knowledge investor blasts board
By ERWIN CHLANDA Local entrepreneur Alex Hatzimihail, who is promoting a massive educational and industrial development in the largely defunct Desert Knowledge precinct, says its board is blocking...
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