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Feds intervene in brawl over child care centers
By ERWIN CHLANDA Crèches in three Aboriginal communities are being re-opened with Federal funding similar to what the Central Desert Regional Council had described as inadequate. “The Australian...
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Definitely starting to look like a car
By ERWIN CHLANDA. Photos by PETA BURTON. Some cars in the World Solar Challenge heading for Alice Springs have morphed from tiny, claustrophobic single cockpit contraptions tacked on to a solar...
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Population growth from Asia: Giles
By ERWIN CHLANDA The Territory’s population growth is going to come from Asia, Chief Minister Adam Giles told a Chamber of Commerce lunch in Alice Springs today. After touting his government’s...
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Set to head from isolation to world fame
To be the most isolated metal band in the world is a surefire handle to achieve lasting fame, and the Southeast Desert Metal from Santa Teresa made a huge leap towards that goal on the weekend....
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Camel Cup expected to raise $20,000 for charity
By ERWIN CHLANDA The Camel Cup on Saturday, another crowd pleaser and tourist magnet run by volunteers, attracted a crowd of about 3500, including 1000 from interstate, according to Amanda Kuhn,...
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Sink or swim: The long way to the Beer Can Regatta.
By ERWIN CHLANDA The first Beer Can Regatta boat coming from outside Darwin almost foundered before it was even built. The crew comes from the civilised end of Sydney: “Drinking beer from cans is...
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Council to take charge of street kids at night
By ERWIN CHLANDA The Town Council community services committee last night resolved to take charge of the fragmented efforts to control the children roaming the streets at night, all of them clearly...
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What the Bomb would do to you
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – In 1985, the Northern Territory Branch of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) issued a research paper titled: “What will happen to Alice if the bomb goes...
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The world’s marvels at his feet
By ERWIN CHLANDA The Frenchman I interviewed in the council library on Monday, 32-year-old Killian Blais (at right), is medium height, medium build, has a pleasant face, good European manners, is...
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Pine Gap may sell homes as housing starts drop
By ERWIN CHLANDA The number of housing starts in the March quarter fell in the Northern Territory by 24.7% and values may take a hit if reported sales of staff homes by Pine Gap go ahead. The NT...
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Tollner on SA power costs: Too much gas or not enough?
By ERWIN CHLANDA South Australia’s high electricity prices are the result of too much reliance on either gas or on renewables, depending on who’s talking. NT Treasurer Dave Tollner – who advocates...
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New control plan follows buffel grass outrage
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA Eureka! After the prolonged campaign against buffel grass, Minister for Land Resource Management Gary Higgins early today announced a new statutory Weed Management Plan....
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‘Terrorists will not stop our laughter’
By ERWIN CHLANDA The French community in Alice Springs will observe a minute’s silence when it celebrates Bastille Day, to show respect and support for victims of the terrorist attack in Nice,...
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Street kids ‘agency’ refuses to disclose numbers
By ERWIN CHLANDA How many street kids are there in Alice Springs? Don’t ask. It’s a secret – apparently. At Monday’s town council meeting it was disclosed that during June the Youth Patrol gave...
View ArticleBraitling is an endurance race, says anti fracking Hopper
By JULIUS DENNIS Almost 14% of the Territory has already had their say in the August 22 election via early voting, says the NT Electoral commission. Here in Alice Springs voters have been streaming...
View ArticleWatercolour painting: learning from the best, one click away
By KIERAN FINNANE It was a case of watch and emulate: two of the top painters from the ‘Hermannsburg School’, working in the tradition of Australia’s most famed watercolour landscape painter, Albert...
View ArticleCaring for kids, stopping offending: The town’s big issue.
By ERWIN CHLANDA There was a strong thread at the election debate on Wednesday night, right across the political spectrum, about caring for young people and stopping them offending. The record deficit...
View ArticleZachary Rolfe: What evidence will be relevant?
By KIERAN FINNANE What permission did police have to enter the premises in Yuendumu where Kumanjayi Walker was on the night of 9 November 2019, when he was allegedly fatally shot by Constable Zachary...
View ArticleTransport Hall of Fame would get money from a Territory Alliance government
By ERWIN CHLANDA A Territory Alliance government would give a grant of $750,000 to the National Road Transport Hall of Fame which the Gunner Government put into statutory management last year, giving...
View ArticleNow starts the busiest time of the year in the garden
By GEOFF MIERS August has to be one of the busiest months on the gardening calendar with a diverse range of gardening activities needing to be entered into from pruning to fertiliSing to planting....
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