Boxers beat COVID: Open air bouts on Saturday under lights
By ERWIN CHLANDA Nearly 30 Territory boxers and possibly two from South Australia will contest an open-air tournament at the Youth and Community Centre, at the base on Anzac Hill, under lights on...
View ArticleA payback with kindness
Sir – The Aboriginal In-prison Restorative Justice Process has potential for reducing reoffending directly or indirectly. Restorative justice addresses the harm of wrongdoing and initiates the repair...
View Article“Look, his first fly.”
By ERWIN CHLANDA “The Crown” missed the punchline and got the weather wrong when it showed Prince Charles, Princess Di and little William disembarking in Alice Springs from their flight from London, on...
View ArticleMike Reed, former Deputy Chief Minister, dies aged 75
Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro says the Territory has lost one of its greatest champions with the death of former Deputy Chief Minister, Treasurer and long-term Member for Katherine Mike Reed. “On...
View ArticleGrid stability service payments a multiple winner
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – With the government battery subsidy due to end on 30 November, grid stability service payments offer a win-win-win-win: for the battery owners, for the NT Government, for...
View ArticleKids and crime: the beginning of winning
By ERWIN CHLANDA The good cop – bad cop routine has been part of law enforcement since Eve stole the apple. Now it’s set to take on the entrenched juvenile delinquency of Alice Springs. Strike Force...
View ArticleGarden dries up in December? Not if you’re doing it right.
By GEOFF MIERS For the gardener with an orchard, vegetable patch and herb plot December can be a most productive month on the gardening calendar. A customer of mine, Kate Ross, a fortnight ago...
View ArticleReconstruction Commission operates in bubble
By ERWIN CHLANDA Professor Mick Dodson AM is not an economic expert (his field is the law), which means he is likely to be on Michael Gunner’s Territory Economic Reconstruction Commission as someone...
View ArticleAlice Springs to lose not just a trail, but the whole mountain
By ERWIN CHLANDA It was made out to be some minor administrative response to the erosion of a relatively little used mountain trail. In fact, according to Chris Day, of the Environment Department’s of...
View Article‘Custodians wanted Mount Gillen closed for many years’
By ERWIN CHLANDA All of the iconic Mount Gillen (Alhekulyele), against which Alice Springs nestles to the south-west, will be in its entirety subject to “restrictions, entry and use”. It began as the...
View ArticleThe Caledon Bay murders: Frontier blood
By JOHN P McD SMITH In 1933 five Japanese trepangers had been killed by Aborigines in the Caledon Bay district of Arnhem Land after taking Aboriginal women. Four police officers with native trackers...
View ArticleThe patient in the next bed may be in chains
By ERWIN CHLANDA The Alice Springs prison, which has a capacity of about 600 inmates, has a section where prisoners can receive medical attention. Trouble is, it is not staffed at night and when a...
View ArticleSweetcorn, a mate for life
By GEOFF MIERS Sweetcorn doesn’t last long after harvesting so grow your own and love it fresh. Mary Blaiklock’s (pictured at top) followed this rule for years and has just harvested her first crop for...
View ArticleAnd now it’s more than a bunch of grapes
By ERWIN CHLANDA When it comes to hardy perennials in Central Australian journalism, right now is the time for a yarn about lucrative table grapes being picked near Alice Springs, in time for the...
View ArticleWazza won’t contest Lingiari again
By ERWIN CHLANDA This maybe is the last question Warren Snowdon will not be answering in his 31 years in Federal Parliament: “How come, year after year, locals are getting Job Seeker – or the dole –...
View ArticleSecond hand Santa
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA There is nothing new on the wish list that Alice Springs is handing to Santa each year, and we still haven’t figured out why the bag is always empty: try poor leadership, the...
View ArticleThe must-have plant for Indian cooking
By GEOFF MIERS The Curry Tree is fast becoming a must have plant for the gourmet chef especially when used fresh. Murraya koenigii until recent times was rarely used in Western cooking. The leaves are...
View ArticleCould remote secondary education reduce youth crime in Alice?
OpEd by RALPH FOLDS A 10-year Australian National University study of a Top End school is challenging government policy relying on boarding schools to deliver secondary education to remote Aboriginal...
View ArticleCounterfeit dollars: Watch for Chinese letters.
Police are seeking public assistance to identify two men and a woman they believe may be able to assist in relation to incidents involving counterfeit money. Police say in a media release that in...
View ArticleBeetaloo $50m handout for frackers incites greenies
A $50m Federal handout for frackers has raised the hackles of the environmental lobby but it receiving support from the NT’s CLP Senator Sam McMahon (pictured in a party promotion). She says she...
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