As an election promise the CLP said it would phase out gill nets because it was scared of losing votes, but now it is in government it needs to show courage by reversing its decision on the ban which would mean the end of wild caught barramundi and threadfin salmon in restaurants, writes Gerry Wood.
Tropical houses rose slowly after World War II and proved to be one of life’s great mysteries to boffins in Canberra, and while under threat from their earliest days, they made Darwin unique amongst the capital cities until Cyclone Tracy exposed their fragility, writes elevated house aficionado Steven Andrews.
EDITORIAL: Proving five senior NT Police officers committed perjury was not a complex investigation; we did it in a few days. If any of the five officers or the Police Commissioner want to challenge the facts, we welcome it and encourage them to take us to court if anything we’ve reported is incorrect. The question now is: When will those in positions of power do the right thing and restore the public’s trust in our police force?
Coolalinga shows how you can have dense development and still achieve larger size blocks, and that model should be used as a guide for Holtze, which has blocks that are too small, writes Gerry Wood.
Despite vast areas of land owned by NT Aboriginal groups, the fundamental building blocks of a successful market based economy are absent due to land rights legislation, and the suffocating presence of the land councils which sets a self reinforcing cycle of very weak business activity, low school attendance, low educational outcomes, social dysfunction and crime, writes Dr Don Fuller.
Like its government predecessors the Finocchiaro Government has gone down the trajectory of imposing policy violence on First Nations people, when the NT needs progressive thinking with problems solved by community thinkers, not politicians emboldened by their narrowed sense of entitlement, and presumed mandate to impose racialised belief systems, writes Dr Gary Fry.
The NTFL should have an ‘Inclusive’ round, rather than a Pride one, because it would say that no matter who you are, male or female, and no matter your religion, ethnicity, sexuality, or politics, you are still welcome to participate in Australian rules football, writes Gerry Wood.
ANALYSIS: The latest ICAC investigation report into the TRG officers who swore false statements to the court provides us with perhaps the best example yet of how those in positions of power in the Territory set up a supposedly independent investigation to appear independent, while secretly ensuring its predetermined outcomes fall in their favour.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro plans to grant herself extraordinary new powers to declare exemptions to the law, through the Territory Coordinator position, has an audacity that eclipses former PM Scott Morrison’s multiple ministries scandal, writes Justin Tutty.
CDU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman needs to be far more concerned with strengthening the Northern Territory’s democracy, as the staff member he publicly rebuked is, rather than appearing to wish to ingratiate himself with whoever happens to be in power, writes Dr Don Fuller.
A new evaluation of a project that involved 214 kids at two preschools in Queensland receiving an enhanced program focused on communication skills 20 years ago, shows it reduced the amount of young people before the courts for serious crime by 56 per cent, writes Jacqueline Allen, Kate Freiberg, and Ross Homel.
Given its importance to the wider Aboriginal community, Batchelor Institute needs to be placed under the organisational control of a federal government department to ensure appropriate levels of governance and financial standards required of an organisation so heavily dependent on taxpayer funding, writes Dr Don Fuller.
