Robberies in Central Business District
Police are investigating a series of robberies overnight in the Alice Springs CBD. Just after 9pm In Todd Street [1] a man was knocked to the ground by a group of offenders. Detective Sergeant Michael...
View Article42 mm great, but some annoyance
Veteran tour operator and Eastside resident Charlie Carter says there has been “42 mm of steady rain over night” – brilliant news. However, as nothing is ever perfect, the “Lake in the Lane” leading...
View ArticleOff the streets to box in Darwin
By JULIUS DENNIS The Arrernte Community Boxing Academy is set to head to Darwin this Thursday for their first competitive fights of the year. On the back of work to “help kids with getting off the...
View ArticleDIY pest and weed killers
By GEOFF MIERS If you are sick of using chemicals to manage pest and disease problems there are many alternatives available that you can buy or simply make up yourself. Here are a random mix of control...
View ArticleLabor’s $4 billion deal: Gas and solar, a bob each way?
By ERWIN CHLANDA and JULIUS DENNIS The NT Government is spending vast amounts of money on two initiatives in direct opposition to each-other. On the one hand it is grappling with having to use lots of...
View ArticleFeds waste no time in taking control
By STEVE MENZIES Reigning KFC A-Grade premier Federal Club Eastside wasted no time in taking control of its clash with arch rival Rovers Complete Construction at the Pat Gallagher Netball Centre on...
View ArticleContract awarded on colour of skin
I had a call today from an NT Government contractor from Tennant Creek. They advised me that they currently hold two remote NT Government contracts. Last Thursday they received an email advising that...
View ArticleGovernment gets tough on crime
By ERWIN CHLANDA The government is bringing in a significant suite of new measures to cut crime including “tougher than ever consequences for breach of bail – this means if a young person commits a...
View ArticleTheir blackboard is fertile red dirt
By JULIUS DENNIS The landscape surrounding Uncle’s Farm defines arid. Buffel grows in dense puffs. Dust follows cars in billowing clouds. To the untrained eye, it seems an awfully strange place for...
View ArticleNT bets its future on an asset in freefall
By JULIUS DENNIS A paper published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has slammed the NT and Federal Governments for pinning the economic hopes of the Territory to a...
View ArticleWho will win: The car moguls or the buyers?
By ERWIN CHLANDA Scenario One: Your car breaks down on the Stuart Highway some 300 klicks from Alice Springs. You call a mechanic, he meets up with you, identifies the defect, drives back to Alice to...
View ArticleCattlemen elect new president
The Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association, meeting in Alice Springs, has elected NT cattle producer David Connolly as its 14th president. Taking over from Chris Nott, who has held the position for...
View ArticleFitz, Warburton back with Wests but Feds will triumph
By STEVE MENZIES The challenge in front of Wests players is to mount the effort to challenge the red-hot Federal Club Eastside in their KFC A-Grade netball clash at the Pat Gallagher Netball Centre...
View ArticleNature, markets kind to cattlemen. Crime, officialdom are not.
By ERWIN CHLANDA It’s a room full of smiles as cattlemen are gathering for their annual meeting after record rains and beef prices in the clouds. The problems retiring president of their association,...
View ArticleVegans, please turn the page
By ERWIN CHLANDA “Demand for and sales of Australian beef has triumphed in the face of both the real and perceived challenges of the past few years. “Our global reputation for delivering on the...
View ArticleIndi Kindi expands to Tennant Creek
By MARK SMITH Leading not-for-profit Aboriginal early years initiative, Indi Kindi will expand into new Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, including Tennant Creek as part of a...
View ArticleBranch office in paradise
By ERWIN CHLANDA The flipside of missing out on overseas travel is engaging in its domestic variety, going to the kind of places people from the world over usually spend very large amounts of money to...
View ArticleSupervised quarantine for Queensland travellers
Anyone arriving into the Northern Territory from the following declared hotspots will need to enter mandatory supervised quarantine: City of Brisbane, City of Ipswich, Logan City, Moreton Bay Region,...
View ArticleGroup leafy vegies together for best results
By GEOFF MIERS Growing leafy greens can be such fun as they grow quickly and you can start harvesting some after only a few of weeks. However, there are a few little tricks of the trade to guarantee...
View ArticleIt’s a battle for Wests
By STEVE MENZIES The netball season is only three of 20 weeks old but there is a sense that it has been a long time for Wests in the KFC A-Grade. This week it suffered another big loss, 62-18 to...
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