In a democracy, government should not cut funding to organisations just because they oppose the policies or decisions of that government, writes lawyer Greg Barns, particularly in a place like the Northern Territory, where there is no upper house to keep a check on executive government.
Conducting hazard reduction burns during the Wet is a strange phenomenon, maybe even paranormal, writes Gerry Wood.
Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis needs to tell ratepayers the details of the deal he struck with a developer over his proposed high rise civic centre-cum-private office development, and he needs to address the legality of how he is using $40 million of car parking money to create a relatively small amount of public car parks, writes Dr Don Fuller.
The most disturbing and depressing aspect of the performance by the Attorney-General and the DPP is not that it provides further evidence that our court “system” is in collapse but worse – writes barrister John Lawrence – it also shows the community that the leaders within our system choose not to admit the truth, face up to it and demand its rectification.
The inclusion of the Nuclear Waste Prohibition Act in the Territory Coordinator bill could reflect a desire for administrative flexibility to manage projects or decisions that intersect with reactor wastes to be stored in the Northern Territory, writes Justin Tutty.
When their dog Princess Evie died last year, Anitra Jackson and her partner Dean used the tragedy to campaign for new regulations for the pet boarding industry in the Northern Territory, to ensure the safety and well-being of all pets being cared for.
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.
