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Safety second on small tour buses?
Recently there have been two bad accidents on Centralian roads involving small tour buses. In the first, a bicycling girl from Taiwan was killed on the Lasseter Highway when she was hit while riding...
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Builders’ insurance review still on the wrong track
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – About 16 members of the public including residential builders and home owners and builders attended the presentation of the Residential Building Cover review at Deloittes,...
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Making money while the sun shines
By ERWIN CHLANDA The electrical “cake” of Alice Springs is $57.5m a year, calculated at the 25c the householder pays for a kilowatt hour. How many of these 230,000,000 kilowatt hours annually are...
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Kangaroo Dundee recognised in the streets – of London
By ERWIN CHLANDA Someone like “Kangaroo Dundee” could promote interest in the Outback amongst Chinese tourists who are now mostly visiting Australia’s big cities. This is the view of Alice-based...
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Alcohol harm to young costs you, the taxpayer, $15b
ALCOHOL WATCH #5 by Russell Guy ALCOHOL-FUELLED VIOLENCE: ABUSE COSTS TAXPAYERS $15B PER YEAR As NSW and Victorian governments focus on late night alcohol demand, Gino Vumbaca, executive...
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CULTURE More money for Mbantua Festival? Nothing on Minister’s desk. Unfolding mall design. UPDATED with new photos, January 2, 11.20am POLITICS & SOCIETY Laid bare: what Desert Knowledge is...
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Laid bare: what Desert Knowledge is doing, and what it is not
ABOVE: 11 of the 13 participants in the 2013 DKA leadership course, as published in the organsation’s newsletter and Christmas message. Names were not given. One thing we know this group did was a...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The bodies of the elderly, young children and babies can’t always regulate temperature changes efficiently making them more susceptible to extreme conditions. The effects...
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More money for Mbantua Festival: nothing on Minister’s desk
UPDATE 7:40am Friday, January 3: A staffer for Senator Scullion has issued the following statement: “The Minister hasn’t yet received anything from the ABA for another grant. When he does (and we...
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So much for the ‘revitalisation’ of Todd Mall
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – As the decline of the northern end of Todd Mall continues it’s instructive to look at newspaper advertising from 1968, namely the feature about Murray Neck’s joining...
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Booze gets millions of likes
ALCOHOL WATCH # 6 by Russell Guy. AUSTRALIA - PARADISE FOR THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY Coca Cola Amatil chief John Murphy (Australian, 16/12/13), in a recent revealing mission statement said “creating...
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Desert Knowledge ‘flagship’ more front than substance?
By ERWIN CHLANDA Senior Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA) staff and its two senior board members have gone to ground as the NT Government’s review of the organisation is entering its final phase....
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Public housing for workers or welfare recipients?
Just before Christmas and acting on information received I expressed to the Minster for Housing Matt Conlan some concerns about the perceived directions of the NT Housing Department. The Minister...
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Holiday makers spend more in 2013, still below 5 year peak
By ERWIN CHLANDA Estimated expenditure of holiday makers in Alice Springs and Central Australia increased from 2012 to 2013 but is still below the five year peak of 2010. The figures come from...
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Booze probes must deal with passive welfare: Elferink
By ERWIN CHLANDA Any inquiry into alcohol problems needs to look at the effects of passive welfare and be specific to the conditions in the Northern Territory, says NT Justice Minister John Elferink...
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Desert Knowledge rejects requests for information
ABOVE: Image from DKA annual review. By ERWIN CHLANDA Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA) chairman Fred Chaney (pictured) has rejected all requests for information from the Alice Springs News Online...
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Children denied education may need to be taken away
While visiting extended family in NZ recently, I shared one end of a dinner table with another transplanted Yank and his Maori wife. Not surprisingly the conversation soon turned to the social ills for...
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Trady vs treadlie: ute driver blows top
I was waiting for the pedestrian lights on the corner of Larapinta Drive and Stuart Highway. I crossed when they went green, as I always do, ever since my life as a Single Female Bicycle Rider began....
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Do you lose more than freedom when you are sent to gaol?
By ERWIN CHLANDA If you break the law you may go to gaol, in the great majority of cases after you have pleaded guilty to a crime. Alternatively, being sentenced to prison follows a decision by...
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A pollie for constituents or the Hotels Association?
ALCOHOL WATCH #7 by Russell Guy THE INTOXIGENIC STREETS OF OUR TOWNS “It is time for the Premier, Barry O’Farrell, to demonstrate that he is running this state for the benefit of his constituents....
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