Peter Severin was untiring in raising cattle, developing tourism
By ERWIN CHLANDA A man sharing his boundless energy between raising cattle and developing, from the ground up, tourism at Ayers Rock, has died aged 93. Peter Severin (pictured) was born in 1928 as one...
View ArticleNative title group silent on its meeting agenda
By ERWIN CHLANDA The native title holders of Alice Springs will have the opportunity at Saturday’s AGM to overturn a deal between their corporation, Lhere Artepe, and the NT Government, supporting the...
View ArticleFake news slap for Alice facebook group
By JULIUS DENNIS The largest Facebook group in Alice Springs, the private “Alice Springs Community Open Forum”, has been slapped with a distribution restriction from Facebook for too many posts...
View ArticleAlice on the Feds’ list for half price flights
By JULIUS DENNIS Alice Springs will be a subsidised destination for tourists from coastal capitals between April and September as part of a Federal government package that aims to deliver domestic...
View ArticleNative title body fails to consult with high ranking elders
By ERWIN CHLANDA Senior Aboriginal custodian Doris Stuart has made public a letter today in which the native title organisation Lhere Artepe is accused of not having consulted with her family about an...
View ArticleAlice hotel on Covid stand-by for $18.4m
By JULIUS DENNIS The cost of the Mercure Hotel quarantine facility, now empty but on stand-by, is $18.4m. It is providing a “quarantine bed capacity” in Alice Springs through to November 30, says a...
View ArticleNetball season starts for 71 teams
By STEVE MENZIES The 2021 KFC Alice Springs Netball Association season begins for the 71 teams across nine grades with 33 games. It will be a 20-game season, plus three weeks of finals, as the...
View ArticleRevolving door of dysfunction continues at Lhere Artepe
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – On Saturday members of the Stuart family representing the Mparntwe custodians and the original Mbantarinya Native Title claimant group attended what we believed to be the...
View ArticleGoals, goals and more goals
By STEVE MENZIES Goals were the name of the game for the first round of the KFC Alice Springs Netball Association. There were more than 1300 goals scored, at an average of 68 a game, as teams adopted...
View ArticleNative title group’s authority in doubt after meeting shambles
By ERWIN CHLANDA A tumultuous meeting that was meant to be an AGM but apparently failed to conduct any business is putting in doubt Lhere Artepe’s credibility of speaking on behalf of local Aboriginal...
View ArticleRains bring pests but could we keep this one?
By GEOFF MIERS Following the rain we are about to experience a population explosion in garden pests with the home gardener needing to consider a range of both chemical and alternative control methods....
View ArticleChallenges in bringing short docos to the big screen
By JULIUS DENNIS While the cooler change was praised around town this weekend, it threw a spanner in the works of the Northern Territory Travelling Film Festival. What was supposed to be a night of...
View ArticleCLP to introduce tougher bail laws
LETTER TO THE EDITOR The Gunner Labor Government should be ashamed of its negligent failure to address the Territory’s crime crisis, which was showcased last night in a damning report by Nine’s A...
View ArticleFABAlice outrageous fun in troubling times
FABAlice 2021 predictably drew a smaller interstate crowd than last year, when the LGBTIQA+ spectacular “snuck in” just before the COVID outbreak. Event Manager Dale McIver says this year 10% of the...
View ArticleNT Government to tender on racial grounds
By ERWIN CHLANDA The NT Government will let contracts for maintenance and repairs of remote dwellings on racial grounds. “Procurement for future contracts will focus on maximising Aboriginal...
View ArticleCrime levels ‘well below’ peaks in mid last decade
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Crime in Alice Springs trended down for a number of years leading in 2020 and the COIVD-19 pandemic and remains well below its peak levels from the middle of last decade. It has,...
View ArticleLong time premiership winners to clash on Friday
By STEVE MENZIES The first replay of the 2020 KFC A-Grade grand final between Federal Club Eastside and Rovers Complete Construction will be played from 6pm on Friday in the stadium at the Pat...
View ArticleMarion Scrymgour picked to succeed Snowdon
Former NT politician Marion Scrymgour has been endorsed today as the preselected ALP candidate for Lingiari, currently held by Warren Snowdon. Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says she was...
View ArticleTourism wants independent inquiry into crime
By ERWIN CHLANDA Tourism Central Australia, the region’s peak tourism industry association representing almost 400 businesses, is calling on the Northern Territory Government “to launch an independent...
View ArticleBarkly has a can-do dude at the helm
By JULIUS DENNIS Jeffrey Mclaughlin sits over a Big Brekky plate laden with bacon eggs and white toast in The Red Centre Cafe in Tennant Creek, a giant keepcup of black coffee at his right hand. He has...
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