Netball: Federal Club Eastside rally late to down Wests Gillen Club
In the netball KFC A grade game reigning premiers Federal Club Eastside took on Wests Gillen Club. Last time they met Wests came away with an upset win. The game started with each side going goal for...
View ArticleDiminished role for councillors or greater efficiency?
By KIERAN FINNANE There is some resistance to the efficiency broom being swept through council by CEO Robert Jennings and Director of Corporate Services Sabine Taylor, who both came to their positions...
View ArticleCandidates keep low profile on booze
By ERWIN CHLANDA There has been a poor response from the seven parties standing candidates to a survey by the People’s Alcohol Action Coalition about their positions on alcohol policy. PAAC says the...
View ArticleA touch of light: fracking advice from an artesian diving beetle
By MIKE GILLAM All photos © Mike Gillam I look at a map of major aquifers in central Australia variously named Ngalia, Amadeus, Lake Eyre, their boundaries delineated and mapped in reassuring detail,...
View ArticleGunner’s Alice: real issues nowhere to be seen
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA Labor clearly thinks it can get away with campaigning on a single issue: COVID-19. Michael Gunner last night used the entire seven minutes the ABC TV makes available for...
View ArticleFacebook campaigning: so much easier than answering questions
This report contains offensive material. By JULIUS DENNIS Facebook posters who think they can malign people from a vantage point of anonymity, especially during this election period, may have another...
View ArticleQuarantine facility ‘ticking timebomb’
By ERWIN CHLANDA A man who was in compulsory quarantine in the Top End’s Howard Springs COVID-19 facility says he observed first-hand breaches of numerous requirements by the Federal Department of...
View Article‘Once in 50 years opportunity’ for tourism in The Centre
By ERWIN CHLANDA COVID-19 is giving Central Australia has a “once in 50 years” opportunity to capture Australian tourists who – for a limited time – cannot go overseas. This morning 70 operators are...
View ArticleZachary Rolfe: medical opinion on potential scissor threat to officers relevant
By KIERAN FINNANE The potential of a pair of scissors to inflict harm has been allowed as a subject of cross-examination by the defence in the case of Zachary Rolfe, a police officer charged with the...
View ArticlePolice & prison do not prevent crimes: Greens candidate on ‘defunding police’
By ERWIN CHLANDA Policing crime and punishing it is one of Alice Springs’ few thriving industries. Take a look at the centre of town: we’ve got a very old courthouse, an old courthouse, a brand new...
View ArticleOperators propose developments to boost Alice tourism
By ERWIN CHLANDA A “range hight adventure” centre offering a skywalk, cable car, walking and bike trails, the longest zip line in the world, paragliding, bungee jumping plus a restaurant and bar has...
View ArticleJuvenile justice: Return to failed programs?
OpEd by KIRSTEN WILSON Crime is a common political battleground – and nowhere more so than the Northern Territory. Four years ago, Labor swept into power promising to reform the child protection and...
View ArticleNetball 17&U: Only four points separating first and fourth
This week’s KFC A Grade game sees a replay of last year’s grand final with Federal taking on Rovers on court two at 3pm. Rovers will be strengthened with the return from injury of Tracey Meekings, who...
View ArticleNear and far, impending and uplifting
Review by KIERAN FINNANE Beneath rain-laden clouds the gallery space dissolves. A ship appears, a tall ship under sail, tiny on the distant horizon, dwarfed by the immensity of sky and sea. On land, a...
View ArticlePandemic car sales bonanza
By ERWIN CHLANDA After 45 years of selling cars, partly in Alice Springs including the past seven year, Stephen Rogers (at right) thought he’d seen it all: The start of 2020 was looking not too bad,...
View ArticleLambley ahead of ex-mayor Ryan, Wakefield likely to lose Braitling
By ERWIN CHLANDA When counting stopped last night in the 2020 Territory election, on two candidate preferred votes Robyn Lambley (Territory Alliance) stood to keep her Alice Springs seat of Araluen,...
View ArticleGeoff Miers: Best time to plant citrus
By GEOFF MIERS Conditions are now perfect for planting citrus trees which along with mulberries and figs are the most productive and successfully grown fruit trees here in Central Australia. It has the...
View ArticleNew government may find itself ‘in a terrible mess’
By ROLF GERRITSEN Re-printed by permission from The Conversation. In February this year, the resignation of a member of the Legislative Assembly prompted a by-election in Johnston, a seat located in...
View ArticleCLP concedes defeat but three Alice seats too close to call
By ERWIN CHLANDA The CLP has conceded defeat in the Territory election but the results in Araluen, Braitling and Namatjira are unlikely to be clear before the middle of next week. Opposition Leader Lia...
View ArticleNT should follow ACT lead: raise the age of criminal responsibility
The Central Australian Youth Justice (CAYJ) Network welcomes the vote by the ACT Legislative Assembly to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years, a change that, if enacted, will...
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