ABC reporting using Environment Centre NT’s comments about cotton growing in the NT, reflect the way it was grown more than 30 years ago, not the way it is now, writes Gerry Wood.
Letter to the editor: Sewage overflow into the Howard River
With sewage flowing into the Howard River Gerry Wood asks are there any safety risks, and what happened to the long promised upgrade to the Coolalinga sewerage infrastructure.
Letter to the editor: Will Holtze planning be for the people or the developers?
OPINION: The final plan for Holzte could be made in accordance with the views of developers, and the rural area will have a repeat of Zuccoli or Durack, former independent MLA for Nelson Gerry Wood writes.
‘How is it fair that I wake every day to check if my father is still alive?’: A police officer’s daughter’s story
OPINION: The daughter of a long serving NT Police officer says her father was forced into medical retirement because of trauma from his work, and after management ignored his multiple suicide attempts. She says senior police refused to help him with his mental health and have never provided therapy.
Letter to the editor: Public servants sacked over vaccinations should be reinstated
OPINION: The NT Public Sector Appeals Board has found a fire fighter who was sacked because he refused COVID-19 vaccinations should be reinstated writes Laine Jolly, and she says it should be applied to all Northern Territory public servants sacked over vaccinations.
OPINION: Strange how ‘racist’ cops promoted while Police Commissioner was aware of text messages two years ago
OPINION: How is it that not one of the NT Police staff members involved in alleged misconduct for sending “racist” text messages that have recently been strewn about in national media as part of the Coronial Inquest Show has ever been spoken to about their behaviour by the NT Police executive in more than two years, writes former cop Carey Joy.
Editorial: Jamie Chalker’s victory lap premature as questions still linger at Inquest
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker’s bold assertion that his personal popularity has lifted while the coronial investigation into the death of Yuendumu teen Kumanjayi Walker is still underway surely ranks among his most confusing, self-aggrandising, and delusional comments yet, while raising serious questions about the integrity of the inquest itself.
Letter to the editor: Changes to discrimination laws an overkill by the government
Fundamental questions need to be asked about the changes to the NT’s discrimination laws, writes former independent MLA Gerry Wood, who argues the repeal of 37A shows no attempt at balance, just one way bias.
Opinion: ‘The tough on crime approach has failed’ – Shifting from a criminal to a health approach
OPINION: There needs to be a shift from a criminal to a health approach in justice systems which also places Indigenous communities at the forefront of the decision-making process, while the age of criminal responsibility should also be raised to 14, SMART recovery CEO April Long writes.
Opinion: How many more NT police officers will we lose to mental health or, even worse, suicide?
OPINION: NT Police officers, and those who leave the force with PTSD, are often left without so much as a phone call from the agency to see if they are okay, with mental health care and welfare mostly window-dressing, writes former member Paul Milne, who asks, what value does the executive put on officers’ lives? Warning that this article contains discussion of mental health and suicide.
Opinion: NT mental healthcare in crisis – people falling into the ‘missing middle’
Outside of an acute hospital setting, I have had great difficulty getting support for my mental health here in the Territory, because not all recovery from mental health crises can or should occur within an acute hospital setting. This is where the Northern Territory falls down; writes one Territorian who relies on the NT’s mental health system.
Fyles Government instinct is to go nuclear rather than answer simple questions: Greste
OPINION: I can’t quite believe that I am now sitting down in front of my computer, to complain about an Australian government using similar tactics to those of oppressive regimes overseas, and even more staggered that I’m doing it two years on from when this saga first began; writes Peter Greste of the NT Government’s latest antics.