Alice Springs News archive 1620

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Issue 1622 July 2, 2009
School sex offender got away with it, say victim’s parents. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Vatskalis dropped bundle on swine flu: Giles. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Crushed glass in – not on – the footpaths. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council’s energy savings get gong.
Bushlight jobs safe – for now. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal doctor finds her work rewarding. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Fun & freedom of the Show life. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aboriginal art for World Expo 2010.
An orgy of beanies. By POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
ADAM'S APPLE: Ponderings from the thunder-box.
LETTERS: Where are the Intervention's fruit and veg and real jobs?

Issue 1621 June 25, 2009
Alice school sex probe. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aiming for more members. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Estimates hearings: Unpaid fines & overflowing prisons.
Araluen tourism booms. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Greek heritage alive in Centre. SERIES by KIERAN FINNANE.
Touch of light. KIERAN FINNANE reviews.
Post 9/11 terror. By POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Success against the odds. SERIES by ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: Alice needs to outshine negative impressions.
ADAM'S APPLE: Tragedy & triumph.

Issue 1620 June 18, 2009
National parks handover spin: town excluded from ceremony. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Scrymgour ‘was in the loop’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Face lift for council dunnies.
Wearing a veil does not stop her loving the beach & rugby league. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Looks like new.
We need better than almost brilliant. By POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Ugly powerlines.
ADAM'S APPLE: Alice A woman of substance.

Issue 1619 June 11, 2009
And the winner is ... Alice Springs! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Turbulent time for Macklin. COMPILED by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Our first Greek family arrived 50 years ago. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Move to the Centre had big rewards.
Town Council adopts new approach to recycling operation. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Library venue a coup for Nu art. By POP VULTURE.
LETTERS: What a welcome to Alice for Ghan passengers.
ADAM'S APPLE: One visitor we didn’t want.

Issue 1618 June 4, 2009
Shire revolt. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Papunya to New York: Have painting, will travel. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Finke: New rocket for Dave Fellows & Andrew Kittle. Grabham switches to KTM. REPORTS edited by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bush ready for change: Beadman. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Going the extra mile. By ALEX NELSON.
Warren H: His Inspiration is best in country. By POP VULTURE.
Department investigates apparent irregularities in home construction. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Too hard for whom?
ADAM'S APPLE: Battle horror ... for a clown.

Issue 1617 May 28, 2009
Big plans for drive-in site. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Boy from The Gap to make a difference. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Community spirit in spades. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert Knowledge in bunker: What do we get for $93m? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hang on, it’s not all bad!
Misleading or worse? Surely not, madam!
Some winners, some losers in student income support.
Kmart wall to be restored. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Community spirit in spades. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Yuendumu art a hit in New Delhi. By NEELIMA CHOAHAN.
Nine more sleeps – Finke organisers competitors & devotees count down. By LINDSAY WRIGHT.
Tattersall’s Finke: A boom, not bust! By LINDSAY WRIGHT.
Pete’s last ride. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
POP VULTRE: Playing to the largest audience in town.
Digging deeper. By ALEX NELSON.
ADAM'S APPLE: Numbers stacked against us? Get over it.
Town camps – the time to act is now! COMMENT by MARK LOCKYER.
LETTERS: Where are Tangentyere supporters?

Issue 1616 May 21, 2009
New era looms in bush. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Land council’s new hurdle. ANALYSIS by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Remission for footy brawlers. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Main street art: How the galleries survive the recession. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Buzz, not bucks: The Finke ... 16 days to go. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ADAM'S APPLE: Weighing up freedom versus distance.
LETTERS: Research leads to investment, jobs.

Issue 1615 May 14, 2009
Row over subdivision. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sport carnival is more important than school. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sharp rise of river dwellers spoken to.
Are we getting public dunnies right? By KIERAN FINNANE.
CDU, Batchelor may collaborate.
Gardening in the Centre beyond trial and error – it’s the McEllister legacy. By ALEX NELSON.
Happy birthday to a giant of our road transport industry.
CBD dollar dribble.
Lost traditions, lost possibilities. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
POP VULTRE: Caution: artwork ahead.
LETTERS: "No surprise Desert Knowledge CRC bombed out."
ADAM'S APPLE: Optimistic Alice.

Issue 1614 May 7, 2009
Desert Knowledge shock. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aboriginal money for administration or development? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Housing prices stay high but who is buying? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Public housing vandalised as private rents skyrocket. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lawrie touts record $1.3b investment. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Budget ‘risky’. COMMENT by Prof ROLF GERRITSEN.
Landowners seek legal advice on litter charge. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Territory’s 2030 wish list a long way from strategy. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Vote probe. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dreaming their own dreams. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: "Do something or you’ll lose your tourism industry."
ADAM'S APPLE: Squinting men & Adam’s apples.

Issue 1613 April 30, 2009
$60,000 liquor litter charge. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Is it a lesson in delaying container deposit laws?
Why some will never get elected. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shire CEO pulls pin. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Slump slows down re-think of how to better run Centre. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Could town camps leases be resumed?
Bureaucrats spend $2.3m to oversee $5.7m in programs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Feral dogs maul stud calf in the town area.
Writers to cook up word storm.
Musical overload in the Wide Open Spaces. By POP VULTURE.
Charming tree hugger champions environment. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
LETTERS: Tourist says town is filthy.
ADAM'S APPLE: Don’t give hate a chance.

Issue 1612 April 23, 2009
Council’s grog rubbish charge may be heading for the courts. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bush housing slow.
Recession: Op shop changes in ‘landscape of need’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shires the size of some European countries: Runs on the board with $60m total budgets. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Locals turn up in droves for deeply moving film. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Twisting, moshing and writhing. By Pop Vulture.
Footy trip to Alice was best weekend of their lives.
Get out your art diaries!
LETTERS: Filth in public places: Is this place for real?
ADAM'S APPLE: What kind of men do Alice women want?

Issue 1611 April 16, 2009
Alderman and developer says: Native title land deal not fair. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
A hidden treasure for Heritage Week. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pre-school garden a toilet, dump. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
New push for mountain bike trail. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Thoughts from the round table. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
No recession in Aboriginal art. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Heritage Week: The present catches up with the past.
High achiever turns 70.
Nuclear powered art.
LETTERS: Cameco water pollution in USA: judges yet to rule on contentions.

Issue 1610 April 9, 2009
Night of crime. By ERWIN CHLANDA and BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Sacred trees must go, says alderman. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Centrecorp shares: Did land council mislead Parliament? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Embattled IAD under microscope – again. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Burping beasts new task for innovative cattlemen. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Breeding beef clean and green. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
A remote community where all adults work & kids go to school. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Basketball bashing must stop. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Pop Vulture: Homegrown harmonies.
LETTERS: Whose life is a misery?
ADAM'S APPLE: To the moon, Alice Springs.

Issue 1609 April 2, 2009
Uranium buck passing. By KIERAN FINNANE and BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Council booze levy anger. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rawnsley new Deputy Mayor. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice tipping point. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Plenty more mining in Central Australia. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Outback Way: NT dragging chain.
Indigenous employment in Canada, Central Australia: A shocking comparison. By ERWIN CHLANDA and BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
RedHOT merges with Alice Festival.
Pop Vulture: Close encounter of the cool kind.
LETTERS: Educators get your act together!
ADAM'S APPLE: Geek meets cool.

Issue 1608 March 26, 2009
Town plan on the never never. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice on uranium mine: ‘56 to 44 in favour’. By KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN CHLANDA.
IAD row: don’t mess with the ladies! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
CDU: No more lagging behind. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Tragedy to triumph. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Passion, place and history in ambitious debut novel. By KIERAN FINNANE.
I’ll sleep on the couch. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Murray bowing out.
LETTERS: Liquor litter move: where is the ‘fair factor’?
ADAM'S APPLE: I'm going R rated.
Pop Vulture: That central feeling.

Issue 1607 March 19, 2009
Centrecorp lid is off. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council turns one, tackles big issues: law & order, litter. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Getting to know them.
New lease of life for Pitchi Richi.
Sacred Sites block river safety burns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Final tests for sewage reuse. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
$1 million Emily set to be a hit for Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pop Vulture: Deadly duel of the bellies.
Bald and beautiful for a good cause. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
ADAM'S APPLE: Should we be worried?
LETTERS: Grog wasted in more ways than one.

Issue 1606 March 12, 2009
Not interested in Centrecorp, royalties on track – Snowdon. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Camels: Waste or sell them? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Crusher made in Alice. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Mining: good news and bad. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Who will care for aging population? By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Mall pokies: What a coincidence!
CCTV monitoring may go to Darwin.
They told me: Go take a flying leap! By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Leaked report canes IAD.
Divine geometry links us to the earth.
Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY: A blissful hand grenade of a film raises bar for comic adaptations.
Young artists in fine form. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Under attack from midget camels?
ADAM'S APPLE: The nan in my life.

Issue 1605 March 5, 2009
Where are the mining millions? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Anger over mall pokies. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Karl Hampton: Caution and focus. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Huts for the West MacDonnells? By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Food stalls under pressure once again. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Araluen kicks off 25th year. REPORTS by KIERAN FINNANE.
After diagnosis and cure, Callum has energy to burn again.
LETTERS: Mark Lockyer is a community hero.
ADAM'S APPLE: Breaking the rules.
Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY: Third time mucky.

Issue 1604 February 26, 2009
The latest crime tinkering. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
At 16 you become a drunk. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Buyers on the hunt for scarce cheaper houses. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Interstate visitors, Chinese may be the answer for tourism drop. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
We’ll be a black town in 20 years. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Will the kids see the error of their ways? By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Ovation for heartfelt film.
Crowne Plaza solar plant: What about the money? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sharp eye on what’s on in Todd Mall.
LETTERS: Alice just another dysfunctional community?
ADAM'S APPLE: A big day, oh well, fairly big.
Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY: Tsunami of pretentious political correctness?

Issue 1603 February 19, 2009
Grass, not trees main fire worry. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
$30m power station plan for Pine Gap. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Massive coal deposit claim in Simpson Desert.
Claims about Kittle earnings ahead of Centrecorp hearing. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Suspend funding for IAD, group demands.
Why are some missing the bus? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Landscape of neglect. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Looking on the sunny side. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Ayers Rock resort is still up for grabs. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Tangentyere answers questions on Barb Shaw’s money raising. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
See how your garden grows. By guest writer JIMMY COCKING.
Work is not out of reach. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
ADAM'S APPLE: A sound I’ll never forget.
Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY: Darling beats of May.
LETTERS: Grog down the drain is a waste.

Issue 1602 February 12, 2009
Youth Centre may be heading for a facelift. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Bloody good drinkers get responsible. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Raided booze goes down the drain.
Courts are not soft, says Law Society. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Errors in the February 5, 2009 edition.
Train bypass, workers’ flats and town planning are in party’s sights. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Same songsheet on railway route. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Golf Club improves swing. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Fight for IAD still in full swing. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council’s bid for infrastructure handout: roads, mall & dunnies.
Kmart wall brawl is not yet finished. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Art lovers escape the gloomy times. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM'S APPLE: Wrinkled stars: get off the stage!
LETTERS: Todd bed should be dredged regularly.

Issue 1601 February 5, 2009
Alice and the recession. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourism in trouble? By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Concerns over sacred Todd trees after ‘silt’ is removed. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Super season. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The Alice goes all out to help sick boy and family. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Centrecorp probe to continue. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Local builders in the race. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tiger not yet ‘locked in’. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Home. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dam’s the dirty word. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Year 12 averages down in 2008 though Alice student topped NT. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Reel to reel relief from a hot and dull summer. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
ADAM'S APPLE: 2009 doom & gloom? Not in upbeat Alice!
LETTERS: Were fake rocks damaged by vandals?

Oline edition Dec 12, 2008 to Feb 4, 2009
Online-only reports during the summer recess of the print editions.

Issue 1545 December 11, 2008.
OK for $50m camps deal. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Freight trains should by-pass town: council. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Good-by disadvantage, hello opportunity. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Keep Kmart bricks: council. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Law & order coalition soon. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Experiment gone wrong. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
What it’ll be like for Alice in the hot seat. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Recession stealing our Christmas joy? Never! By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Ted wants rethink for First Australians. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Weapon of mass persuasion. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Alice duped over Kmart wall.
ADAM'S APPLE: Australia is not a great date movie.

Issue 1544 December 4, 2008.
Landrush? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
On the front foot with law & order. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The Centre’s beautiful sandstone ... look again. By KIERAN FINNANE.
A town with an uncertain future. By Heritage Architect DOMENICO PECORARI.
Kmart mural: no guarantees. By KIERAN FINNANE.
When art becomes part of every day.
Accused murderer MC Willshire: how would you have judged him? Part 3 of an interview with historian DICK KIMBER.
Book sings about country. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bush cures. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Recalling the days at the old Mission Block. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
An expert’s take on uranium worries. By Dr D. C. “Bear” McPhail, of the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
LETTERS: Today's truants are tomorrow's prisoners.

Issue 1543 November 27, 2008.
Another icon going. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Parental responsibility in NT: big stick too small. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘Dam fillers’ at Undoolya. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Carbon could make the Centre dirt rich. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Black housing back to drawing board. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Gallery in the Mall opens with panache.
The notorious MC Willshire: colleague doubted his sanity. Part 2 of an interview with historian DICK KIMBER about Mounted Constable Willshire, accused but acquitted of murder.
2008: a triumphant year for Papunya Tula artists.
Uranium expert advises Alice News readers, writers.
LETTERS: Caldicott independent? Pull the other one ... and: Kids can’t be forced to go to school, says department
ADAM CONNELLY: I'm a nerd screaming to be set free

Issue 1542 November 20, 2008.
Mining: if law gets in the way, change it. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Will McArthur mine case set the uranium agenda? By KIERAN FINNANE.
How ‘tiny’ can become big in the nuclear heat.
Ballooning made in Alice takes China by storm. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘I don’t want to be bad. I just get bored.’ By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Nuke dump: for, against. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Change of guard at tourism lobby. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Not bad for a little place like this. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Matriarch of the Lines and Colson families passes on.
Was Willshire a murderer? By DICK KIMBER.
Summer starts with hope. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Centre can be the new Saudi Arabia of renewable energy.
ADAM CONNELLY: Bring on the rain!

Issue 1541 November 13, 2008.
Anderson wants all Centre MLAs to act together on anti-social behaviour. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Uranium miner Cameco gets it wrong.
Storm fury.
How to make remote Oz tick. KIERAN FINNANE reports from the Desert Knowledge symposium.
Outback governance: Getting the show on the road.
One community that gets it right.
Getting away from the crunch. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Stole from employer.
When raging was all the go. By DICK KIMBER.
Growth in Centre as Great Depression ravages the world. By ALEX NELSON.
Mitchell grass tunes. By RUSSELL GUY.
ADAM CONNELLY: Short back and sides.
LETTERS: Uranium, shire polls.

Issue 1540 November 6, 2008.
We need workers’ hostel, says new Chamber boss. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘Transparent’ Centrecorp still stumm. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Wattle seed from Oz could eliminate famine in Africa. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Slow road to progress. By ALEX NELSON.
Govt. revolution in bush. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
CCTV blind to crime. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Melanka party is over ... but what a party it was! By DICK KIMBER.
Changes afoot for Araluen. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hit show has some unasked questions. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Uranium miner Cameco answers allegations.
ADAM CONNELLY: Acts of selfless love live on.
Wicked weekend warriors: Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY takes a look at life in Alice outside the boa constrictor confines of the workplace.

Issue 1539 October 30, 2008.
Senate grills Centrecorp boss. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
When recession came to Alice. By ALEX NELSON.
Water and dust at Angela Pamela uranium prospect: ‘First we need the proposal to get the facts’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Keep your shirt on! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Subsidies for new homes before land release once again cart before the horse, say Alice aldermen. By KIERAN FINNANE.
They made me wash the dishes ... naked. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Ear to the ground. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY, moving like an impossible caterpillar, tunes in to the abundance of sound that is Central Australia.
LETTERS: Shire poll – pastoralists had ‘no voice, no choice’.
ADAM CONNELLY: Gimme industrial strength over ‘natural’ any day!

Issue 1538 October 23, 2008.
Shire poll fiasco. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Will Minister get the sack?
Centre’s tourist industry rolling with the punches. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourism has come back from shocks. Will it again? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourism NT & Central Australia out to lunch?
Mall market muddle. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aboriginal art triples. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Selling out or evolving? Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY reviews the Kings of Leon’s most recent album.
Year 12 – the final countdown. By EMILY RYAN.
LETTERS: Council misses mark with its graffiti plan.
ADAM CONNELLY: King of the hill goes for a spell.

Issue 1537 October 16, 2008.
And now, the new state of Remote Australia? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Some thoughts on fixing "the failed state of remote Australia".
Progress on subdivisions. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
How will economy weather the storm? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention should continue with willing participation: review board. By KIERAN FINNANE.
CCTV fails to record broken Mall window.
After two decades of Masters they’re one big happy family. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
LETTERS: No ease to housing and land shortage.
A speck of perspective on a broad horizon. By ALEX NELSON.
In your face. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hopeful dawn between first and newcomer Australians. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Alice will quieten down soon enough.
POP VULTURE CAMERON BUCKLEY: Take it or leave it?

Issue 1536 October 9, 2008.
U-mine splits Alice Labor. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Raging Rita – art can turn around decline in the bush. By KIERAN FINNANE.
"We need tourism rooms and cheap land for housing." By ERWIN CHLANDA.
CCTV working? Here’s another $1m, just in case. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Best part of Old Ghan track cut by uranium mine lease. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Taking chances for silliness and survival. By ALEX NELSON.
Bass a disappointment. By DARCY DAVIS.
Being in another place. By KIERAN FINNANE.
POP VULTURE CAMERON BUCKLEY: Everything borrowed.
Massive losses of verge trees.
Desert Mob record sales.
LETTERS: Reptile killing story goes around the world.
ADAM CONNELLY: Intervention one day, uranium the next: all in a protestor’s week.

Issue 1535 October 2, 2008.
More development strife. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Planning, get real: Ald Samih Habib. By KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN CHLANDA.
Outback Way: small fish in big Aussie road pond. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert Mob: The art goes on. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Storm lessons: What trees should we grow? By ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: Is Senator Scullion saying he didn’t say what he was saying?
ADAM CONNELLY: Knowledge mobs need to start new industries.
POP VULTURE: CAMERON BUCKLEY reviews a new release AC/DC DVD, No Bull.

Issue 1534 September 25, 2008.
Wanna have fun? Make your own! By KIERAN FINNANE.
Housing land management: should it be the next job for the Feds? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mayor's openness short-lived?
Lean living for single pensioners in Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Recipes from old Europe get bushfood makeovers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘New settlers’ in paper chains and flesh. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Journey to the limits of endurance. By R. G. (Dick) KIMBER. Part 3.
A Molotov cocktail of musical genres. POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Festivals to solve climate change? SPECULATION by DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Intervention: stemming the carnage in the bush.
ADAM CONNELLY: What do we believe in, what do we know?

Issue 1533 September 18, 2008.
Uphill land battle. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council wants to head off a Thirsty Thursday for Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Let communities decide on permits: Call by alderman. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Centrecorp: moment of truth. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hospital the last resort for NT’s ‘skinny kids’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The town was rocking! By DARCY DAVIS.
Faces and stories from four corners of the globe. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Now that’s a party!
LETTERS: Developing the Kurrajong area would make Alice Springs a true adventure destination.
ADAM CONNELLY: The Territory where simple means stupid.
Journey to the limits of endurance. By R. G. (Dick) KIMBER. Part 2.

Issue 1532 September 11, 2008.
KIERAN FINNANE reports on new strategies for indigenous employment.
Black jobs breakthrough?
Some Alice job seekers live in creeks.
"Willing to get out there and give it a go.”
Police seize huge grog running hauls. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTER: National Indigenous TV replies to allegations by Neville Perkins.
Aurora may buy into a ‘broken up’ Ayers Rock Resort. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Adam Giles: Maiden speech vision.
Fuel prices won't kill car rally sport, but red tape may. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Clare Martin will head organisation that damned her government. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Journey to the limits of endurance. By R. G. (Dick) KIMBER.
LETTERS: Intervention: is it time for an anti anti rally?
ADAM CONNELLY: Grand final headaches or not: Alice and sport go hand in hand.

Issue 1531 September 4, 2008.
Alice Springs is perfect for cycle tourism worth millions in other places. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Garrett to keep eye on NITV allegations. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
By-laws are needed to control pit bull terriers, says Ald Stewart. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Footy brawl ‘reasons for escalation’ down to Cole.
Rust & spinifex have never looked so sexy. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bushfoods ready for market but is market ready for bushfoods? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Anti-nukes high and dry. By DARCY DAVIS.
Salvos have few options for homeless. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Our man in tie at Youth Down UNYA. By DARCY DAVIS.
Desert Knowledge hosts leading edge solar trial.
Joyriders at The Rock.
Gravity survey: What is underneath?
LETTERS: OK, Paul now loves us, but how much?
ADAM CONNELLY: Getting ready to blossom.

Issue 1530 August 28, 2008.
Call for probe into Abor. TV firm. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘Listening’ Chief Minister brings cash for surveillance. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Changing the shape of the town. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sleepover that's not a yawn.
Remembering a guy most of us never knew. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Twins series made in Alice goes to air. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
These girls are ‘buffled’. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: When is news not fit to be told?
ADAM CONNELLY: OiOiOis have had their day.

Issue 1529 August 21, 2008.
Alice a fly-in, fly-out town? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Cole’s victim defenceless. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Intervention ‘holocaust’
Split up Ayers Rock Resort: tourism lobby. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Clash over $16m pool complex: Project manager will sue council over sacking. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘Longest shortcut’ becomes task for local government.
Throwing a spear meets kicking a ball. By DICK KIMBER.
Wearable art fresh Out Of Africa.
The town Alice became: KIERAN FINNANE reviews Sally Mumford's exhibition.
Old sins cast long shadows. By CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Councils want a shortcut to dollars from Canberra.
ADAM CONNELLY: We armchair sports lovers.

Issue 1528 August 14, 2008.
Labor’s loss more then Libs’ gain, except in Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Wages up 4%, rents 20%. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Giles a "hands on pollie". By ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Alice out in front!
COMMENT: Work best cure for violence.
Leaving town: The brain drain we can ill afford. By LAURA PACKHAM.
Songs of love and struggle launched Alice Desert fest.
Don’t dip your pen into company ink. By CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Crossing the Simpson from east to west: 24 days of ‘absolute madness’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Kill the speed limit!
ADAM CONNELLY: The colic of social fevers.

Issue 1527 August 7, 2008.
Braitling a done deal? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ELECTION REPORTS BY KIERAN FINNANE:
Governing half the NT.
Will Alice be home for Opposition?
Is uranium an article of faith or open to debate?
Urban migration – fuzzy picture.
Don’t mention the handover!
Taking the climate change bull by the horns in Alice. By JIMMY COCKING, Arid Lands Environment Centre.
Harmony theme for Alice festival.
A nice cross-generational property? By CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Election: Seniors, victims, ratepayers speak out.
ADAM CONNELLY: Let me just be the devil’s advocate.

Issue 1526 July 31, 2008.
It’s the economy, stupid! By KIERAN FINNANE.
Nice try by government. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ELECTION ROUNDUP by KIERAN FINNANE:
Spending the Feds’ billions.
ALP, Libs: same-same on uranium.
Alice’s favourite hobby: beating the police drum.
Water for uranium exploration: not much more than an Olympic pool, says company. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Uranium elephant in the room for independent.
A fair way to go. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
New band Miazma’s original deathly metal. By DARCY DAVIS.
POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Uranium elephant in the room for independent.
On a kung fu joruney down the slik road. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
ADAM CONNELLY: When early rising is a downer.

Issue 1525 July 24, 2008.
Poll Top heavy. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Grog ban in parks. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lively battle for Braitling. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Housing fiasco’s front line. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Election gives grants fiddle gets a new lease of life. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Age no barrier for adventure.
50% hike in dump charge will ‘kill us’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Territory’s greenest teacher at Braitling.
Guides’ fun: flying pants up a flagpole. By LAURA PACKHAM.
What’s this art thing about anyway?
Story blasted into the bloodstream: Heath Ledger pounds out last role. POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Sydney needs intervention, not Alice.
ADAM CONNELLY: I’m not qualified for the 21st century

Issue 1524 July 17, 2008.
Let’s give Alice teeth: Centre party mooted. By KIERAN FINNANE.
NT Govt. shrugs off town council uranium concerns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
New journey down the well worn path of Aboriginal advancement. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Macklin makes wrong start in camps, say native title holders. By KIERAN FINNANE.
More than grace and beauty. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pilgrims heading out from Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Around the traps: First crossing of Oz by car.
LETTERS: Million dollar a year dentists?
ADAM CONNELLY: iPhone? iDon’t.
Penis jokes and vile product placement: The Love Guru. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.

Issue 1523 July 10, 2008.
‘He saved me from being raped, maybe murdered’ ... but he’s going to be charged. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The CLP has friends in Canberra, well, maybe. By ERWINCHLANDA.
Healing centre bungle. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Closing the gap? Dream on. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Moving from bush to town: they’re doing it everywhere. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Workforce stretched to the limit. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council slips up on non-slip tiles.
Burns calls for Federal scheme to make doctors work in bush. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council seeks town camps talks. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ryan pushes black jobs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Scrymgour favours getting tough with people not accepting work. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Not rose-coloured glasses: blindness!
Back yard a paradise.
ADAM CONNELLY: I’m not a drunk.
Not left to fate. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.

Issue 1522 July 3, 2008.
Scullion ‘stuffed up’: Mills canes Senator over national parks give-away. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Parks give-away will hurt the very people it is meant to help.
Law into his own hands?
New burbs at airport? Huge development costs differences: will they determine where Alice grows? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ENVIRONMENT: Glimpse of Alice in 2030. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ENVIRONMENT: Solar City alone won’t get Town Council to 2010 greenhouse emissions reduction target. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ENVIRONMENT: Uranium, Timor gas ‘our hope’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘The nuclear non-solution’.
Where have all the young ones gone? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Licence to buy gun not good enough to buy grog.
Go-ahead for Civic Centre art.
ADAM CONNELLY: ET – go home!

Issue 1521 June 26, 2008.
CLP loses our parks. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: The parks fiasco. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘No more climbing Uluru’: Parks as pawns for activists? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
We want to run our own show, says Amoonguna. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shortage of doctors leads to suspension of medical visits to bush.
Funding only ‘viable’ towns not a race issue. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Community stores give IM a good report card. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Centre wisdom for Paris. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Poo pipe: slow learners.
Giles in Braitling, Carney, Conlan stay, bush open. By KIERAN FINNANE.
We want to run our own show, says Amoonguna. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ted Egan getting ready to stay. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Attacks on women.
Batchelor: Few in top courses.
One finds one’s destiny on the road one takes to avoid it. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Weird and wonderful all-nighter. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Rampaging teenagers caught on camera.
ADAM CONNELLY: Millions for art.

Issue 1520 June 19, 2008.
Mount Johns Valley: race starts to create 800 homes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice is sweet but off-beat. Alice on track, but whack.
Planning: Delia won’t budge. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Artifical park gets three times the funding of the real thing. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
U-mine under looking glass. By KIERAN FINNANE.
US wide open for Centre art. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Batchelor’s plans under a mantle of ‘cultural safety’. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
After Melbourne gigs, The Moxie launch EP.
Like a ride on a decommissioned see-saw. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
New moves on plight, so easy to fix. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shopportunity: It’s Not OK Mart! By DARCY DAVIS.
Mere Rumbal still has the moves. By EMMA HURLEY.
LETTERS: OLSH students help East Timor.
ADAM CONNELLY: Bats about tats.

Issue 1519 June 12, 2008.
Wake up, town centre! By KIERAN FINNANE at the Planning Forum.
Grey nomads keep on truckin’ on. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mayor to query ministers over ‘filth’ in town camps. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Design for people and streets - not buildings. By KIERAN FINNANE at the Planning Forum.
Larapinta, Undoolya, Sadadeen not favoured for future housing. By KIERAN FINNANE at the Planning Forum.
LETTERS: Habib is under attack from fellow alderman, and why teachers strike.
Beating Berrrimah Line at ballot box. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.

Issue 1518 June 5, 2008.
Filth in town camps: Government turns blind eye. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Court hears brawl charges. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council plan out of touch: Ald Habib.
Boffins for a better desert. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Desert Knowledge CRC: The money’s good, but ...
Native title holders have no worries with uranium mine. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sacred sites tours slow to catch on. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog down – a little.
Alice youth send message to the UN. By DARCY DAVIS.
From town camp to the MCG.
Time travelling. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
A garden of delights. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Opal fuel saved 13 lives.
ADAM CONNELLY: The global village just got bigger.

Issue 1517 May 29, 2008.
Are CCTV cameras in Todd Mall a waste of money? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council wants to boost spend for tourism, freeze pay for aldermen. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Turning 20, a new studio, but is Imparja on the right track? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Homicide returns to Alice.
Desert Knowledge picking up speed? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
If you don’t get this, go back to painting your picket fence! Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: "Put camels on eBay."
ADAM CONNELLY: Last bastion of resistance to the Finke.

Issue 1516 May 22, 2008.
Town planning: "I’ll listen," says Delia. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Power & Water Corporation keeps bungling. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Planning: Thinking aloud.
Alice lobbies gear up for planning forum.
Camels out of control: efforts are inadequate & sporadic, says report. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice the "murder capital" no more? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Soon: bilingual storytime. By KIERAN FINNANE.
East coast gardeners more water savvy than dwellers of the desert. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Start of 2008 3rd driest on record. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The joker in the pack. By ALEX NELSON.
Movie made in Alice. By DARCY DAVIS.
What’s for dinner at 21? Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Government "complacent" over debt.
ADAM CONNELLY: My very own inconvenient truth.
Scary caterpillars. Our Backyard Bush by MEG MOONEY.

Issue 1515 May 15, 2008.
Rob Knight signals consultation on parks transfer to Aboriginal ownership. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Council acts on illegal campers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Roof panels a solar dud? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Live exports back.
Alice to get eight more experienced cops. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Solar City a winner! (Contributed by Alice Solar City)
New tip operator boosts recycling. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dole cut if unemployed refuse job. By KIERAN FINNANE.
How to cope with the hard part of budget air travel. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The hidden shape of God. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Youth for a republic - by a whisker. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Shires debate.
ADAM CONNELLY: Putting passion in its place.

Issue 1514 May 8, 2008.
Parks bid in Senate. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Moment of truth for Alice. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
NT Budget: Nothing big for Centre. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘No discrimination in renting.'
Boarding school is in. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention not silver bullet?
Bob Taylor is going for it! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Crime, police numbers makes no sense. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
U-mine battle heats up. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Town Council aims for 20% Indigenous staff in one year. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Being a doc in the NT is more better.
To stay or to go, that’s the question. By DARCY DAVIS.
Pip pips the field with art fit for world show. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Council voting controversy lives on.
ADAM CONNELLY: Cain didn’t kill Abel because he had a different passport.

Issue 1513 May 1, 2008.
Illegal camping, littering: How much longer will this go on? By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Pearce has answers for town’s woes.
Group fights Alice uranium mine. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
IN BRIEF with KIERAN FINNANE: Town camps to go into Alice electorates – win for Labor.
Governments stonewall queries on huge Aboriginal housing scheme. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Making Alice safer, friendlier, livelier? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Reading, riting – no rithmatic.
Art controversy again?
ADAM CONNELLY: A rite of passage for men, women and children alike.

Issue 1512 April 24, 2008.
Alice Springs in 2020, through the eyes of native title holders. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
New full time Mayor will centre on communication. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Councils’ watchdog on the alert. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Barb off to the what’s its name conference. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Teachers want not just money.
ADAM CONNELLY: High time for 2020 vision in The Alice.

Issue 1511 April 17, 2008.
Centre poor cousin in $.6b housing scheme. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council: doing deals worked. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Privatise Central Australia? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Fistful of dollars: Now for the facts.
Breathing life into the CBD. By KIERAN FINNANE.
A new NGO: Work for the dole that works.
We’re ready for experience seeker. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hardcore makeover at the Small Day In. By DARCY DAVIS.
Breathing life into the CBD. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Police "unwanted" or doing their duty?
ADAM CONNELLY: Licked by cunning linguists.

Issue 1510 April 10, 2008.
Cops mum on numbers. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Red Centre triumph. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mayor Damien rules supreme - for a week. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention: wins & hurdles. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Goodbye to ‘the good mayor’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sofa responds to bums on seat.
Not another essay! Kids stand on digs. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: The Territory’s education fiasco.
ADAM CONNELLY: For the love of my sport.

Issue 1509 April 3, 2008.
Numbers of police "fudged". KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Diversion for juvenile offenders flops. By KIERAN FINNANE
Ryan looks safe for Mayor. By KIERAN FINNANE and ALEX NELSON.
Queries on town council pre-polling in Alice Springs.
Minister Burns will not comment on racism fiasco. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Call for conduct rules for both accommodation houses and guests. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Welcome to Abbott's Camp. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Heritage concerns oveer Adelaide House. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Palace? Bring it on. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: System of counting our votes is abhorrent.
ADAM CONNELLY: Four years of sheer hell for Mayor.

Issue 1508 March 27, 2008.
The agony of running Alice accommodation. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Recycling becomes an issue.
Tangentyere’s woman in council? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council’s lack of will on urban drift. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Town needs deeper debate on anti-social behavior, say council candidates from different backgrounds. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Exhaustive preferential poll: you should be afraid to ask. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Vandals rampage on footy weekend.
A government without minders. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Everything old is new. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
ADAM CONNELLY: Silicon Valley is also in a desert!
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Issue 1507 March 20, 2008.
Sparks fly in lead-up to council polls. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council out in cold on masterplan. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ociones, McIvor on main issues. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Habib seeks third term to "finish a few things". By KIERAN FINNANE.
Is tree planting rocket science? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Make rules for bush visitors work: Rawnsley. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Long time Aboriginal friends check his growing cynicism.
ADAM CONNELLY: Lifestyle is in the eye of the beholder.
Youth drama: the body beautiful. By DARCY DAVIS.

Issue 1506 March 13, 2008.
What we will do to stop the mayhem. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mills backs call for work camps. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Man hurt, car burned in attack by youth gang. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice Springs needs to play catch-up to tell her story. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Is ban on town camps boozing unenforced or unenforceable? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Golf club determined to beat handicap. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bread and circuses: big open air theatre.
It’s not just the Mayor. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Blocks, preferences, tactics. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cultural showpiece for council corner. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Living history. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: CLC way off the mark on parks.
ADAM CONNELLY: The circus is coming.

Issue 1505 March 6, 2008.
Alice to turn fortress mentality inside out. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Big brother watches.
National parks ownership a measure of Henderson’s commitment to Alice. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The parks conundrum.
Life’s better with income management, say men and women from town camps and bush. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Talk to us, not urban people: Green Senator is off mark. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Footy, Ronny: the spectacle was us. BY DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Govt. minder out of order.
ADAM CONNELLY: A face which only a mother could love!

Issue 1504 February 28, 2008.
Alice uranium town: in search of the facts. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Parks will be handed over to Aborigines. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Strategy to stop flouting of new Dry Town laws. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Town Council fuming over NT Govt largesse to Darwin. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pine Gap show and tell? By KIERAN FINNANE.
The Alice Palace. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Let The Tribe speak.
Too many pollies. PART TWO of a COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: Sad loss of volunteer group.

Issue 1503 February 21, 2008.
Volunteers shut down in disgust. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Work camps or same old? Candidates on booze war. ERWIN CHLANDA speaks with mayoral candidates about the failing Dry Town.
Will someone who can fix The Problem please stand up? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
McAdam’s resignation: insult to apparent injury? COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: We need an inspirational starting point to prime visitors for The Centre.
Year 12: launching pad for life. By DARCY DAVIS.
Love songs and tassled nipples. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Centralian – it’s a different language.

Issue 1502 February 14, 2008.
Dry town a farce. By KIERAN FINNANE.
How clever really is this bit of desert knowledge? By KIERAN FINNANE.
The friendship of saying ‘sorry’ will be good for whole country. By KIERAN FINNANE.
McAdam goes to back bench.
Clark gets parks facts wrong, says finance secrets are OK, brawls with sport identity. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rellie Rally and a few ideas for improvement. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Canberra now listening to locals on NT intervention.
ADAM CONNELLY: Pollies below the Berrimah Line don’t represent the right people.

Issue 1501 February 7, 2008.
... and now there are six. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Govt. minder, Advance Alice boss in fiery clash. WARNING: Some language in this letter may offend.
Darwinites born to rule the Territory. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Mills working on alliance with Nats in Queensland. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Farewell William Trevor Stephens. Eulogy NOEL HARRIS.
Alice 1/8th of population, 1/8th of NTCE top scores. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Blind faith is scary.

Issue 1446 December 20, 2007.
Wannabee mayors tout policies. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Chrissy, then the long, dry stretch. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Who could shift the Indigenous affairs debate on the ground in The Centre? COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Centre could lose another seat in the NT Parliament. Discussion by ALEX NELSON.
Christmas for the other half (or how to have a festive drink in a dry camp). By KIERAN FINNANE.
Two pennyless refugees make restaurant dream come true.
Art is political. By DARCY DAVIS.
Bowerbird - the figures. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Mince pies, paper hats.

Issue 1445 December 13, 2007.
Stewart running for Mayor. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Grabbing the Tiger by the tail: Now a bus company bites back.
Public art: Two on the short list. By KIERAN FINNANE.
... but not everybody is happy. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Breath tests not unusual where 6 die.
Imparja chief vague on future of station’s news.
Thumbs up for Year 10 at senior college. By KIERAN FINNANE.
School enrolments not yet responding to intervention. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Feeling connected. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Centre celebrity.

Issue 1444 December 6, 2007.
Camels: threat or opportunity? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Half a million wasted. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Land degradation has long history. By KIERAN FINNANE.
What did the bush vote mean? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention just one of the issues, says Anderson. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Blitz on grog excesses yields results.
Buffel grass increasing flood risk in The Alice? COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Australia’s "big noise" in Paris: Aboriginal art at Quai Branly. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Two Alice story writers among Australia’s best.
Fine French farce for FTroupe. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Tiger, Qantas flying off the handle.
ADAM CONNELLY: Selling my kidney for the plane fare home.

Issue 1443 November 29, 2007.
Qantas boycott. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pintupi art on fire: Half a million dollars, 2 days. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Snowdon wins seat but not Alice. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
John and Kevin and Clare and Paul and Alice. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
10 years later: 2% more people drink 13% more grog. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mayor’s poll.
Some beats on the Todd Table. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Martin, Stirling failed.
ADAM CONNELLY: A swirling world of pastel shirts and boater shoes.

Issue 1442 November 22, 2007.
Crunchtime for the new council laws. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Water: The cheap option. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Local issues will drive elections in The Centre. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Oil and gas explorers take on land council. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Democratic fervour in the faraway bush. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention snags CLP hopes for Santa Teresa. By KIERAN FINNANE.
CDEP goes, too quickly.
StoryWall worries aired behind organisers’ backs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourism: the one-eyed leading the blind. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
As future of outstations hangs in the balance, where to for rural health? By KIERAN FINNANE.
They begged for help but Alice didn’t listen. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Greens want a return to self-determination. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice’s own Summer Heights High: Boooooooring (the school, not the show). By DARCY DAVIS.
New local CD: Calibre music from this country. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: What a moving experience.
LETTERS: Freedom of speech well worth a fight.

Issue 1441 November 15, 2007.
Save Pitchi Ritchi. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Story Wall is political: aldermen. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Their next trick: witch burning? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New house an expensive dream. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Looking back on the footy brawl. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Democracy decays. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Night curfew and community service keep six young vandals out of courts. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice’s Gen Y hard at work. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Town rallies to save Pitchi Richi.

Issue 1440 November 8, 2007.
Water plan sells The Alice short. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Stop the shires: Anger growing. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice to lose more of its past? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Giles as the can do candidate. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Intervention ‘investigating options’ to help Wallace Rockhole shoppers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Five cartons that did not make it.
Sanderson to run Art at the Heart.
Where is NTG money for ‘real jobs’?
Nov 24: The teens decide. By DARCY DAVIS.
Top End on top up.
ADAM CONNELLY: Grumpy old men need love too.
LETTERS: Camps part of Alice, says Fran.

Issue 1439 November 1, 2007.
Tourism moves infuriate lobby. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brough intervention slips a cog. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Labor’s answer to Brough. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Solar City no help with carbon pollution, say climate lobbyists. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: School results denial: Pull the other one!
ADAM CONNELLY: Angie and Brad: saccharine replaces true grit.
Tjukurrpa on CD. By DARCY DAVIS.
Good onya Ronja! By DARCY DAVIS.

Issue 1438 October 25, 2007.
Solar city hits straps. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Minister snubs MLA from his own party. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Looking back on the brawl. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Resort getting into STEP. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rumour or reality for Anzac? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Snowdon road money mainly in the Top End.
LETTERS: Drowning under the dust, the mud, the blood and the beer.
SPECIAL COMMENT: Literacy going backwards for remote kids.
ADAM CONNELLY: It’s big and it’s cheesy.
Prime development with the lot – except for water. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Freedom just another word ...
Have tent, will travel: Bush by bus. By veteran bush walker GWEN HEWETT.

Issue 1437 October 18, 2007.
Intervention poll focus. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dirty secret. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
René Frederick Burger, guru and lark, passes away.
LETTERS: Education: costs up, performance down.
ADAM CONNELLY: Who’s going to pull what rabbit out of which hat?

Issue 1436 October 11, 2007.
Tourism bodies slammed for ‘agitating, boycotting’. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘Recycling’ fiasco goes on. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Land council lawyer acts against the instructions from Aboriginal leaders.
A cross to bear.
Prison walls no obstacle to art.
Holiday Runamucks. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Alice Springs – It’s not too bad!
LETTERS: Good-by dongas – great idea!
Bush beckons. An adventure series by GWEN HEWETT.

Issue 1435 October 4, 2007.
Govt. mum on poo pipe. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
What a fest it was! By HARRIET GAFFNEY.
Lobbies lash out at YouTube diatribes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Import or home grow: How does the NT get and keep employees? By FIONA CROFT.
Mamus on the Munda: Ghosts on the Ground. By ALI COBBY ECKERMANN.
LETTERS: Time government owned up to the grandstand fiasco, says alderman.
ADAM CONNELLY: YOU think you’ve got problems!

Issue 1434 September 27, 2007.
Still no Labor policy on our intervention billion. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
If you haven’t heard a rumor by 10am, start one.
Will Arltunga be a ghost town, again? By FIONA CROFT.
Travelling to sell intervention: Labor MLAs cover vast areas. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
What future for outstations? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Done & Dusted. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Concert crowd shocked by middle-aged dancer.
LETTERS: Anti-social behaviour is back.

Issue 1433 September 20, 2007.
Back door parks grab: "Joint management" of Rainbow Valley shuts out public from most of the park. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rock Resort boss quits
Football video sparks racial hatred on web. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Flood of Canberra cash for NT: More than a billion in next four years.
Drinkers on move.
Just 350km north of Alice – land, water and labour for horticulture.
Bands battle. By DARCY DAVIS.
A safe place to create. By FIONA CROFT.
ADAM CONNELLY: When you need high maths to have a party.
LETTERS: Crying over spilled booze.

Issue 1432 September 13, 2007.
Activists seek boycott of intervention. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Was Centrecorp boss in footy final brawl? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
We’ll keep up officer numbers, says top cop. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Desert Mob frenzy: Go, go, buy! By KIERAN FINNANE.
Town camps to go dry this week.
Controversial magistrate weighs in on activists’ side, spits the dummy. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Anderson sticks by her guns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Local historian chronicles great pioneering effort and adventure. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Barracking for the Jane Leonard and Steve Hodder writing team. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
A solid display from the sentimental poet. By DARCY DAVIS.
Desert Mob: What we do, who we are. By KIERAN FINANE.
LETTERS: Centrecorp should not prop up governments.
ADAM CONNELLY: APEC 2009 in Alice Springs!
Websites, brochures, awards won’t make Alice sustainable. COMMENT by Dr David de Vries.

Issue 1431 September 6, 2007.
NT will be nation’s jobless basket case. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
CDEP assets likely to go to IBA trust. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Gallery new string to Titjikala’s bow. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dads supporting dads. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice drying out?
The Screaming VETs. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Joining a brotherhood of blokes.
LETTERS: A Joanne - Lindy park?

Issue 1430 August 30, 2007.
‘Bush tribes own the Centrecorp millions’. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
No school, no dole to go national.
Clare’s emergency response: Is it enough to close the gap? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Kings of the road fete.
New CATIA manager made Kununurra tick. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Getting private investments for Aboriginal communities. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dust a Must. By DARCY DAVIS.
Colour and light.
You’d have to be hungry! By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: A demerit scheme for everyday life?
LETTERS: A flood dam for everybody?

Issue 1429 August 23, 2007.
Centrelink staff balloons as dole quarantine starts: 5 communities in Central Australia to lead the way. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sue Gordon sits down with Papunya women: "I’d kill abusers." By KIERAN FINNANE.
Todd dam should be lake, says Chamber of Commerce boss. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Baby boomers now seniors making election demands.
Grave error.
ADAM CONNELLY: "I’m a mummy’s boy."
LETTERS: Money on the hoof.
StoryWall will become StorySite. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Vote on shires.
Rich fellowship to Alice artist.
Room for Bloom. By DARCY DAVIS.

Issue 1428 August 16, 2007.
Empires crumble. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
When the Big One comes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brough intervention: Anderson says it is the change we had to have. By KIERAN FINNANE.
McAdam speaking with forked tongue? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Combined Aboriginal Organisations ‘no mandate from locals’: Call to hand over Centrecorp millions. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Now where have I heard this one before? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
National heavyweight enters the employment game in The Alice. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Youth issues drown in alcohol concerns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Justice delayed is justice denied. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
A joker who has a black background. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Time for flood control is now.

Issue 1427 August 9, 2007.
No action on killer floods. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Not too much between fest ears. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Getting serious about saving water? By KIERAN FINNANE.
"Old larrikin" remembered. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Brough juggernaut rolls on.
Four generations of talent. By FIONA CROFT.
Whales humping or pushing the envelope? By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Booze ID cards don’t work.

Issue 1426 August 2, 2007.
Native title compensation sought over town of Alice. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Festival HUB space moves to town. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Stand up money for real jobs? By FIONA CROFT.
ALP nosedives in Greatorex. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Taskforce doctors to return. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Grog runners transport booze in kangaroo carcasses. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Papunya’s Council looks to the future. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Be fair to pink. By DARCY DAVIS.
Harry Potter fans get final fix. By EMMA HURLEY.
LETTERS: Are shires just cash cows?
ADAM CONNELLY: Poll brings out a streak of cynicism.

Issue 1425 July 25, 2007.
Taskforce in top gear. Special report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sacred children: Life after Mal. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Where is Clare? By FIONA CROFT.
Sacred trees: Alice in one can only Wonderland. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
By-election moment of truth for CLP? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Violent Alice Springs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Broadcaster part of the campaign?

Issue 1424 July 19, 2007.
Greatorex campaign: Running on empty. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Taskforce: many kids very sick at Ti Tree and Hermannsburg. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Five year leases over 0.1% of Aboriginal areas a land grab? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Clairvoyance is for real. By FIONA CROFT.
Aussie camel wins international race for USA because he had a Yank on his back.
Outstation movement blossomed yet Alice town camps grew, too. KIERAN FINNANE speaks with historian DICK KIMBER.
Zenith: Stir at the top.
LETTERS: Taskforce - 17 seconds per inhabitant.

Issue 1423 July 12, 2007.
Taskforce settles in. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Getting to know eachother. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Herrick stands for Greatorex. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Neglect more serious than sex abuse. COMMENT by NETTIE FLAHERTY.
$2.3m show cattle sale. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
And now let’s cane the government for doing something. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Yirara is "stabilising" college at The Rock. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Good timing for SBS series. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.

Issue 1422 July 5, 2007.
Alice Show: Bigger, better. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Blind eye on camps rubbish. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog war hard, but that is no reason to quit. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Howard’s Heroes in bad timing at Amoonguna. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Best ask grannies.
Council value for money? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Greatorex poll: Jane prods ALP, Matt hits static. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brough briefs: ‘Here for the long haul.’
A stitch in time. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Muslim cameleers were ‘exceptional explorers’. By FIONA CROFT.
LETTERS: Public, not public servants, should plan future of Alice.

Issue 1421 June 28, 2007.
A record of denial. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Two Hidden Valleys. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Town Council backs Mal except on dongas. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tough love made real. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The nuts and bolts of change. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Brough’s revolution: the good and the bad. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dear Clare, you’re getting it all wrong: Gergory Andrews' letter.
Soccer self help. By FIONA CROFT.
Veggie variety or the road less travelled? By FIONA CROFT.
Alice Springs News short story competition: 2nd prize winner Jennifer Mills. Sponsor: The Lane Restaurant.
Alice Springs News poetry competition: 1st prize winner Leni Shilton. Sponsor: Asprint.
LETTERS: Howard’s not right till he’s fixed the problem.
ADAM CONNELLY: Nanna’s nose - not her nous.

Issue 1420 June 21, 2007.
Ratepayer rip-off? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Scullion in probe about CLC’s role in Centrecorp. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The horror of child abuse. By KIERAN FINNANE.
97 recommendations.
See no evil? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
No jail terms for Pine Gap Four. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Good onya, UNYA. By DARCY DAVIS.
Arrernte people gave OK for town campers to stay. Historian DICK KIMBER speaks to KIERAN FINNANE.
Paul Sitzler: Foundations of modern Alice, NT firm. OBITUARY by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice lake? No, it’s Perfume Creek. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Volunteers and sponsors needed for Camel Cup.
‘tis the season for the beanie. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Stiff competition for getting on TV.
LETTERS: Call for Tangentyere to stop adding to the ‘river of grog’.

Issue 1419 June 14, 2007.
Hapless Burke sparked off national parks grab. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Finke crowns head south.
Alice loses Mal’s $60m: Will his $20m go, too? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
$1m Emily for wine bar. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Peter Garrett’s whole new take on freedom of speech. By FIONA CROFT.
The slowly grinding wheels of justice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The Vocal Local. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: The BIG weekend.
LETTERS: Saving camp leases or lives?

Issue 1418 June 7, 2007.
Old Ghan back on the rails. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Food for thought! By FIONA CROFT.
A bad time for villains. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Nuclear Bonanza. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Will remote Australia be world’s uranium dump? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Activists struggle to get same old message heard. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Reconciliation, dongas and all that: Time to get it right. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council budget: Where will all the money go? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ADAM CONNELLY: Time and space in spades makes Alice perfect for making movies.
LETTERS: Call for electric car subsidies.
Uni keeps growing.
ALICE SPRINGS NEWS SHORT STORY COMPETITION WINNER: "Reason" by Jennifer Mills.

Issue 1417 May 31, 2007.
Fran’s blank on camps. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Statehood: Do we have your full attention? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rally supports Tangentyere. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice housing market slows, units nosedive. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Security guards: Touchy feely or big and burly. By FIONA CROFT.
LETTERS: Town camper’s taunt ‘we don’t need money’.
ADAM CONNELLY: I ryt 4 u!
Finke: The hardest ever. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dialogue with dailiness. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Are we merely pawns in someone else’s plot? PREVIEW by DARCY DAVIS.
ALICE NEWS STORY & POETRY COMPETITION: Double prize shows ‘how good the writer is’.

Issue 1416 May 24, 2007.
No council for Yulara. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Delia’s dongas debacle (continued). By KIERAN FINNANE.
TOWN CAMPS: Wills clash. By ERWIN CHLANDA
TOWN CAMPS: Self determination: what benefit? By KIERAN FINNANE.
TOWN CAMPS: Haves and have nots.
TOWN CAMPS: Old timers say life is easier in Truckies town camp. By FIONA CROFT.
Concrete camels cause curiosity. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Selling The Centre to Europe. By FIONA CROFT.
LETTERS: Good on you, Doris!
ADAM CONNELLY: It's a mug's game.
Borrowing from the future. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Drive-bys meet dry lives. REVIEW by DARCY DAVIS.

Issue 1415 May 17, 2007.
Mal Brough: Crunch time for town camps tomorrow. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Indigenous education: Bush results in decline. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Will the real leaders please stand up? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Black college sinking ship? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Spending money. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Abandoned public housing flat ignored by authorites. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Local tunes on CD and myspace. By DARCY DAVIS.
Walter Walloon on a circular journey. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
A special way of seeing. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
All that talk about booze is putting us off our beer. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: The problem with crime is the endless failure to stop it.
ADAM CONNELLY: Distance makes the heart grow fonder!

Issue 1414 May 10, 2007.
Northside will trial photo ID to buy grog. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Federal Budget: Huge fillip for black housing. By KIERAN FINNANE.
I can’t stop drinking. Poem by ALI COBBY ECKERMANN.
Alleged thieves, burglars and vandals, aged 11 & 12, back on the streets and off to diversion. REPORT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Northside humbug. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Northside residents angry work on donga camps looks set to go. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Infringement notice with a sting.
One determined guy: Blind alderman in quest for Arafura Games gold.
Battling family embraces web business.
Untamed, unashamed: please explain. By DARCY DAVIS.
Dialogue with the earth. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Did you see yourself on the telly?
LETTERS: " I want to break legs!"

Issue 1413 May 3, 2007.
Premium Opal? By KIERAN FINNANE.
The Mayor for whites? By KIERAN FINNANE.
All noise will go. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
No mass exodus from Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
"Shutists" are blown away: great Alice lives up to its reputation. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Donga Delia’s buckpass flawed. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
CLP takes aim at NT Budget.
Intensive care boosts school attendance. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Stories and sound bring the past to life. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Where have all the flowers gone? By DARCY DAVIS.
Beckett an Australian hit. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Claypans launch for 21 art day: From one desert country to another.
ADAM CONNELLY: It’s what you say, not how you say it.
LETTERS: "Dongas will forever be associated with human misery and hardship."

Issue 1412 April 26, 2007.
Behave in town, or get sent home: Aboriginal politician. REPORT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
And now, here come the sniffers. REPORT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The natives are revolting. INTERVIEW by ERWIN CHLANDA with the Minister for Central Australia .
Young lawbreakers must not be charged unless it's serious. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Walking, drawing, photographing, thinking, writing, learning. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
The Gold Tooth Berrimahsaurus vs the Two Tone Whip Snake. By DARCY DAVIS.
Not the middle of nowhere!
The weekend that was, plus the one after this. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Delia says DCA gave her option to say yes.
SUE WOOLFE: No small talk.
ADAM CONNELLY: We're the cool kids.

Issue 1411 April 19, 2007.
Chief Minister booed. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Change of guard at the Catholic Church in Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
No end to grog woes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
From no family to a big one. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mayor says we don't need Federal cops: would make us look like third world. By KIERAN FINNANE.
'Give each other a break.' By KIERAN FINNANE.
More to camps deal than meets the eye. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Youth is attacked in broad daylight.
And on a lighter note: Moxie give pollies a cracker. By DARCY DAVIS.
Juggling with changes. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Disturbing familiarity. FILM REVIEW by ADELE SAINT and MARCUS HANSEN.
ADAM CONNELLY: The Larapinta Line has a certain ring to it.
LETTERS: What has permit system achieved?
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Issue 1410 April 12, 2007.
Cops have winning streak. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bid to say good-bye to dole. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Is zero tolerance the answer? COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Newcomers, stayers, visitors, consultants, truckies, latte lefties, camels, termites, Aborigines, cyclists and people in shorts. BOOK REVIEW by ANN DAVIS.
New look Batchelor Institute set to fire. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
"Don't be shame, be game." By KIERAN FINNANE.
No babble in Babel. FILM REVIEW by ADELE SAINT and MARCUS HANSEN.
Interstate troupe puts Aboriginal culture on show in the Centre, and all around the world. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Springs history behind bars. By KIERAN FINNANE.
SUE WOOLFE: Is Alice ordinary or extraordinary?
ADAM CONNELLY: God (and Alice) don't need new PR.
LETTERS: Zero tolerance for some?

Issue 1409 April 5, 2007.
Dongas forever? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sweeper cover-up intensifies. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourist spot weed choked. By KIERAN FINNANE.
A weekend pad in town the latest in public housing. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Uranium fears and why should Alice be green? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Law & Order: Send in the Feds?
Art dream comes true. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sellout show still finding its feet. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Palm Sunday was a bore. By DARCY DAVIS.
Home grown youth drama.
Kevin "Bloody" Rudd: Leader with class, observes DAVE PRIOR.
ADAM CONNELLY: That unpleasant smell in the room.
LETTERS: Fellow Central Australians, cheer up!

Issue 1408 March 29, 2007.
Law and order: what problems? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Options for uni and good jobs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Crime figures don't tally. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Money stronger than words: Mayor explains dongas plan. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Love letters from town hall: ERWIN CHLANDA corresponds with Mayor Fran.
Class clowns take Funny as their subject. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: The Martin Government has lost control of the streets: Send in the Army?
ADAM CONNELLY: She'll be right or Viva La Revolucion.

Issue 1407 March 22, 2007.
Cops late ... again. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sweeper: Fran knew. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Minister silent on police delay fiasco. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Todd Mall: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Kintore: Happy and proud to have a new art shed.
Home is Alice, work address: cyberspace. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Becoming mother in the heat.
There is good money in bush tomatoes, for the researchers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Children in care: are good intentions enough? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Another face to Miss Pink. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Neo, a Near Earth Object? By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Police Minister our super hero.
LETTERS: Todd River rubbish a disgrace.

Issue 1406 March 15, 2007.
Police fail to investigate violent robbery in CBD. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Housing is the key. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Delia, oh Delia ... Stop Alice promotion? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Law & order: "no confidence" in government. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council officers want secrecy. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Advance Alice not extreme.
Appeal to make streets of Alice safe and fun! By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dongas "bastardry"
Keep screaming turbines away, say rural residents.
Fuzz is great fun but not for faint-hearted! FILM REVIEW by ADELE SAINT and MARCUS HANSEN.
ADAM CONNELLY: Finding the "angle" of the Teeerriitooory.

Issue 1405 March 8, 2007.
Guardian Angels street patrols as youths run amok. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
New town council purchasing scandal: Not happy ratepayers. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Meeting on climate change draws heat. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Devastation on Todd River Downs massive, says CLC.
House blocks: black firm may take over. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice seniors get serious in national lobby group. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The Alice on top - for all the wrong reasons.
Journalists behind bars.
Airguitar on Ghandi's staff. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: What have I got myself into?

Issue 1404 March 1, 2007.
Town council split over the future of Old Timers' camp. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shadows in our solar system. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Yulara's $2.5m boarding school has no boarders. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Kevin's fight for his home on the range. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Going public. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Road money: Feds, NT tension. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The art of covering. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: My kingdom for a beard.
LETTERS: 'Shutists' descending on Alice.

Issue 1403 February 22, 2007.
Gas search: jobs boom? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Valley deal to clear way for hundreds of blocks. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice police: same troops, new general. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Snowdon on sinking "jobs for dole" ship. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal advancement stille the focus for Snowdon. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Let's get around naked for a while: alderman. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Business backing musical. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Every breath you take. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The ranges are alive with the sound of Warren H. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Pollies are people too, or so they say.
LETTERS: What Territory lifestyle?

Issue 1402 February 15, 2007.
Rates, roads, rows? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Martin's 20 secret park deals under Native Title Act. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Leader or figurehead? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Excuses for inaction or determination to get things done: which way, Alice? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal advancement stille the focus for Snowdon. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Making coffee is more than pushing buttons. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hip hopportunity. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: A tissue, a tissue, we all fall down.

Issue 1401 February 8, 2007.
Leaders push for grog card. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Talk of vigilantes follows bashings. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rural land race. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Donga debate deepens. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Year 12 ranking. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Why dongas in town while remote facilities in tatters?
Council: big plans but no money. By KIERAN FINNANE.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie ... that's Amira. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: 320 days to Christmas.

Issue 1350 December 21, 2006.
What a year! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
"Urban drift" begins and ends 2006 for council. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Creative pulse beating in Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Numbers brawl in tourism, but the bottom line is we're still waiting for the big boom. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mal the man. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Parks seem safe as Big Mal holds out. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Labor way in front. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The Power and the Water but no Glory. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alive and free. By KIERAN FINNANE.
More crime. By KIERAN FINNANE.
CAT wants to buy CSIRO premises with public money. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ADAM CONNELLY: The politically correct dust storm.
Celebrating who we are. By DARCY DAVIS.

Issue 1350 December 14, 2006.
Third candidate for Mayor: Order tops agenda. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mass brawl: No charges. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Yipirinya teacher accused of bullying his colleagues. By KIERAN FINNANE.
New freight deals may brighten rail fortunes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Answers soon on local government reform and second airline.
Tanami highway work.
Centre seeds deals in global markets. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Van Haaren sees red over interference by officers. Aldermen say no to muzzle, tackle hard tasks together.
Young (mostly) film makers going ape. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Fiddle fest. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: One man's cult is another man's cringe.
LETTERS: Opal is safe, says Minister.

Issue 1349 December 7, 2006.
Centre "worst in the world" for stabbings. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Brolgas flight near stall. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alderman attached to "angry" lobby set to run for Mayor. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
More questions on dongas.
LETTERS: Dongas - Are we so used to complaining that we can't just say, thank goodness!
ADAM CONNELLY: One man's cult is another man's cringe.
Chefs to the rescue of fine food. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Writing takes prisoners beyond their walls. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sausages and condoms. By DARCY DAVIS.
Pool danger.

Issue 1348 November 30, 2006.
Own council in talks to get a second airline. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The centre on stage. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council votes for cost free curfew and uncosted cameras in the mall. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Block itinerant camp on northside, says Braham.
Minister conceals report after her authority hears evidence from 120 locals. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Call for health professionals to dob in brutes.
New anthology of Central Australian writing. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY thinks Jessica Simpson could benefit from a trip to Alice.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR. D.R. Chewings explains the motivation behind his campaign to clean up illegal dumping around Alice and laments the lack of support from the town council.

Issue 1347 November 23, 2006.
Coucil sends family firm into liquidation. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Exporting art. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Real estate sales show ‘stunning’ decline in Alice, ‘staggering’ growth in Darwin.
Solution for Willowra refugees?
Cattleman backs students to study their own backyard. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hospital building fiasco is now before the courts.
Charity made easy: come to their feast! By KIERAN FINNANE.
30 years of running.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY wonders if the mince pies are really this year's?
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR Jim Cleary looks back at the 1960s when local Indigenous people participated in a thriving local tourism industry.

Issue 1346 November 16, 2006.
Indigenous tourism booms - in Namibia . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Winds of change for travel lobby. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Second no to White Gums development. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council gets ultimatum over CCTV in the Mall. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The education you didn’t know we were getting. By JACQUIE CHLANDA.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY has heard that Darwin is taking over Alice Springs as the unofficial gay capital of Australia.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR Ross Pollock argues that Mereenie Loop Road funding would be better spent on upgrading
access to the MacDonnell Ranges beauty spots.

Issue 1345 November 6, 2006.
Alice lobby gains pace. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Quit the path to cultural suicide, being a victim'. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Public should get mulch: Ald Koch.
Qantas takes us for ride. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Big plans for Miss Pink's garden. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Whose problem - ours or theirs? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Leaders must lead.
Land and culture – necessary but not enough for the future. By ROSALIE KUNOTH-MONKS.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY examines the pitfalls of Alice's varied social scenes.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR Leader of the Opposition Jodeen Carney says, if elected to government, the CLP will repeal the speed limits on open roads.