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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.
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.
ADAM CONNELLY: Where are the local quotable quotes?
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.
Issue 1344
November 2, 2006.
Land council blocks saviour for tourism. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Opal "safe'.
Fest: what next? By KIERAN FINNANE.
A fresh look at The Centre. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Talking to my plants helps them grow.'
Finding voice in The Centre.
Surrender has never been so sweet. By DARCY DAVIS.
They will go blind, surely?
Singapore drag star now teaches in Alice.
Dangerous Creatures. By Columnist ADAM CONNELLY.
Solutions for violence? Letters to the editor.
Issue 1343 October 26, 2006.
Martin, dept. boss at odds, Red faces after
slagging
in parliament by Stirling and the Chief Minister. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shooting the messengers ... from cowards' castle.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
'Slack' tour lobby comes under attack. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rates, roads & rubbish, bush style. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Jodeen on the big issues.
Skatepark Extension. by RAINER CHLANDA.
Alice fashion is on rewind. By BIANCA GEPPA.
Are Batchelor graduates ready for work? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
CAAMA heads into fast lane of the TV game. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS to the editor: Play now, sleep later What
are you doing to Alice, Madam Mayor?
Play now, sleep later. By Columnist ADAM CONNELLY.
Issue 1342 October
19, 2006.
Town council dump: Contamination fears. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Bushlight monopoly? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Drought by computer. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Security threat' if Minister thinks so. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
'No time for complacency, CATIA'.
Open government, Clare Martin style. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Liquor licence: what is the public benefit? By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Eric gets big gong.
No mass culture tsunami here. By KIERAN FINNANE.
More public art. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Masters of a good game. By COLUMNIST ADAM CONNELLY.
LETTERS to the editor: NO TIME FOR COMPLACENCY,
CATHIA.
Issue 1341 October 12,
2006.
Govt. snubs Alice film makers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Wearing to go! By KIERAN FINNANE.
New crime busters to talk with the right people
- Abor. leader. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Peace activist: have hammer, will travel. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Camps sites picked.
Much greener than a car & super cute! By JAQUI
CHLANDA.
It's three times the buzz. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY has been ambushed by some
naked bodies lately and he's complaining!
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR Trevor Shiell
suggest authorities and business have missed the boat (or is it plane?)
when it comes to creating an international hub airport in Alice.
Issue 1340 October 5,
2006.
Food led recovery for Alice? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Leaderless Alice Springs ... where to now? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
The view from
the tourism industry.
Too few
answers
to troubling questions.
Planning not
kneejerking!
The issues:
who thinks what?
'Come clean on communities'. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Life's a gamble. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pine Gap not'prohibited'? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY is dead worried about the
snake season.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR John Sheridan
says 'blow in' academics know nothing of the Territory's road
conditions
and should leave our unlimited speed roads alone.
Issue 1339 September 28,
2006.
Highway money debacle. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN
FINNANE.
The battle for Stuart. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Govt. film office a bonus or burden? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Valley: no case for rezoning. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice is the 'participation capital of Australia"
writes columnist ADAM CONNELLY who's finding it makes for a hectic
social
life.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR Michael La Flamme
commends Steve Brown's vision of Alice as a place very different and
"more
colorful than any other town", as reported in last week's lead story.
Issue 1338 September 21,
2006.
It's now or never for Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Blue zing, rich earthy hues. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Two hours of democracy. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Booming Darwin leaves Alice Springs far behind.
By ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
Crime up all round.
Still trouble with Civic Centre aircon. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Qantas to close its Alice office.
Hill after hill. By ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
Stuck till the kids go back to school. By columnist
ADAM CONNELLY.
Issue 1337
September
14, 2006.
How will the camps work? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Uneaten cat is top bush delight. By KIERAN FINNANE.
New Minister's lateral thinking. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
New broom for old seat: Big field of Labor. COMMENT
by ALEX NELSON
Foes in Stuart poll. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON
No gold mine glitter for The Alice: Rotten road
forces business to WA. By ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
Tourist left crossed legged, gets a 'grumpy
message'
from senior council officer.
Drying out The Alice: where will the drinkers go?
By KIERAN FINNANE.
No work no pay works, a treat for Ali Curung. By
ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
Vandals in bush.
Pedicab.
Progress or ruin? By ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
Mission to mosque: religious diversity. By
ELIZABETH
ATTWOOD.
Alice's Irwin tribute.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY looks at the ludicrous
celebrated (times two) in Alice.
Spirit goes on, the little school that won't say
die.
Issue 1336 September 7,
2006.
New Aboriginal housing row. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Fence to stop suicide bombers.
Tourism promoters need to get backpackers back.
By ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
Bush ready for work change. By KIERAN FINNANE
Canteen Creek is on the job as work test makes
the difference. By ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY can't stand stupid
questions
messing up his head space.
Benefits
Account as his "personal slush fund", while the Minister's spokesperson
responds that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Shopping for salvation. By ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR MHR Warren Snowdon
claims Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough is using the Aboriginal
Issue 1335 August 31,
2006.
Camp dongas: more queries. By KIERAN FINNANE.
our joke girl a hit os. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Demolition of Rieff building new low for govt.
Heritage protection. By DOMENICO PECORARI.
Finding God in the desert: the rise and fall of
religions in the centre. By ELIZABETH ATTWOOD.
Toyne not a big loss. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA
Bring your hat! By KIERAN FINNANE
Council's anti nuke dump policy undermined. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Fish would have loved it. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ten canoes' secret. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Alice desert festival lifts off.
The old tales of the Territory are worth a listen,
but are they going to bring in the big bickies, asks columnist ADAM
CONNELLY.
Issue 1334 August 24,
2006.
Big break for twins By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Law change: boom in bush? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Australian refugees in The Alice: Who cares? Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Is child sex probe the beginning? by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Man, 23, in coma: questions about Saturday night
fever. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Let's build on good will, says new Desert Knowledge
chief. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Council embraces public art. by KIERAN FINNANE.
Battle for White Gums resumes. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Rodeo in the Outback. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY is dreading the approaching
summer, a time of pestilence in biblical proportions.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Clare
10 times worse than Denis.
Issue 1333 August 17,
2006.
Martin knew about Mutitjulu mayhem. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Deft design for desert campus. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Longer stop-over for Ghan passengers chance for
Alice. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
5 years of doing it by halves (or less). Comment
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lhere Artepe, alderman say'no' to camps for
itinerants.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sewage flowing into swamp: poo only .00000028 per
cent. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
5 star backpackers hostel by June '08. By ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Night riders. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
When no news would be good news. COLUMN by ADAM
CONNELLY.
Letter to the editor: Staff housing at Rock: 'so
many outstanding jobs'
Issue 1332 August 10,
2006.
Desert fest not dry. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Up and away for the Ayers Rock Resort? By ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
It's city-bush, not black-white in the world of
booze. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Barry doesn't take no for an answer. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Power station racket shows govt noise control
weakness.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
More depth is needed for the 'creative Alice'
label!
COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Mady Cat in Wonderland. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Nothing like it in centre. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY's tendency to grumpiness
will make him a great old man.
Letter to the editor: 'Bite the bullet on moving
the power station' says ex-PWC board member.
Issue 1331 August 3, 2006.
Chance to shift noisy powerhouse. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Centrecorp part of Peter Kittle's expansion in
SA. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourism up after slow start. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Counsil to investigate tender for furniture. Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Our town like Alice. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Youth breaks the beast. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Issue
1330 July 27, 2006.
Noise report:
gaping holes. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Kittle's empire
set to expand. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Child care
centre
may be saved. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Public
landscaping,
Alice Springs style! Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Fiasco at Rock:
nitpicking to hide ALP cluelessness? Comment by KIERAN FINNANE.
NT Govt slow
to back local TV drama series, Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The art of book
making. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Alice muso
'saves'
the Amazon. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
The final
performance
of Ozzy of Bojangles' Sunday afternoon duo, the Wizard and Oz, gets
columnist
ADAM CONNELLY all teary.
Hockey's famous
five. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
NT go kart
titles 'best in Australia'. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Issue 1329
July
20, 2006.
6 working, 394
more needed. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sun power.
Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Minders run
country. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Does community
run childcare work here? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Council declines
to accept grandstand. Report by KIERAN FINNANE and ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Record bull
price. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD
Public toilet
blockage. By KIERAN FINNANE
Runway work
for domestic flights - Ayers Rock Resort.
Australian of
the Year's cervical cancer drug 'most needed' in Central Australia.
Report
by ELISABETH ATTWOOD
Lucid visions
at Two Mile. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Is the latest
anti-smoking campaign turning men into monsters? COLUMN by ADAM
CONNELLY.
In our lead
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Opposition Leader Jodeen Carney says the decision
by CoAG to remove customary law/cultural practices as a source of
mitigation
in sentencing is a confirmation of a twice rejected CLP policy.
Issue 1328
July
13, 2006.
Overseas
flights:
race is on between Alice and Rock.
Crossin says
Feds can block parks deal but wants it to get green light.
Hot pool is
all set to go for $8m - mayor. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Young Alice
pollies take it up to Darwin. Report by JACQIE CHLANDA.
Do-it-yourself
way to go for community housing. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
'Heaps' of
outstations
deserted but some working well - Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Local businesses
keep The Alice alive, independent owners claim. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
They are still
goood friends 60 years on. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
'Alice Springs
could be as well known for music as for its art'. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
On parade at
the show. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Twines on her
mind. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
returning from
a trip to Sydney. COLUMN by ADAM CONNELLY.
Issue 1327
July
6, 2006.
Aldermen call
for probe into civic centre.
Smelly prelude
to opening.
Is Alice
ignoring
drug problems? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Drags, Finke
may share troubles. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
'Care, control,
management' now mean doing something'. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brough wins
some, loses some. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Huge tab for
pool?
Beanie Fest
x 3. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Lard up big
time at show. COLUMN by ADAM CONNELLY.
LETTERS: Game
set & match.
Issue 1326
June
29, 2006.
Civic Centre
scandal.
A toast to
saving
(killing?) our tourist industry
Huge subdivision
on hold yet again. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Noisy
powerplant:
Residents winning? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Booze moves:
reforming the town or hitting the baddies?
A toast to
saving
(killing?) our tourist industry. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Year 10s stay:
private schools. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Why is West
best?
Alice fact
better
than fiction. COLUMN by ADAM CONNELLY.
LETTER: Silence
broken, time to act
Issue
1325
June 22, 2006.
Living in
Larapinta:
the good and the bad
It's cool to
be an Aboriginal kid living in a town camp
'Alice now much
harder to sell'
Will enterprise
on black land be more feasible?
Moxie madness
spreads through Alice. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Finke's hidden
heroes
Writing the
book on being Aussie
LETTER: Petrol
price downer for grey nomads
Issue
1324
June 15, 2006.
Noisy power
set to go? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cheaper to build
than rent
An illusion
of doing something
An extraordinary
cattle man. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Hearts and minds
aren't Syd's forte. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
New year 10:
what the kids are saying. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The parallel
universe of Indigenous services. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Pit play fresh
and relevant but trying to do too much. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Youngest bike
Desert King. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Unreal to win
again. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Tangentyere
axes vital service. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Despair, elation
all in one Finke. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Test of
endurance
like no other. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTER:
Aborigines:
the more the discussion changes, the more it says the same.
LETTER 2: Public
service wages blowout is predicted.
LETTER 3: It's
business as usual at college.
Uncovering the
secrets of Alice.
Issue
1323
June 8, 2006.
Push for new
grog trial
Centre 'cash
cow' for National Trust
Council acts
like nothing's happened
Court case gives
glimpse into multi million dollar Aboriginal business
Local artist
Lofts' love story leaves lots to imagination
Auricht: Fastest
in Finke will be local. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTER: 'Whether
it be East Timor or Yuendumu, wherever almost the entire population of
able bodied men have no jobs, no status, no prospects and nothing to do
all day, there are bound to be problems.'
A marquee man
rather than tent
Issue
1322
June 1, 2006.
Dept. 'reminded'
to report child sex offences
Alice: 'lots
to do and safe'
One hump or
two?
Freedom from
information?
Fix welfare
'for the kids'
Recipe for black
success
NEWS IN BREIF.
LETTER: Nanette
Rogers 'should be commended'
24 years to
go to become a local
Issue
1321
May 25, 2006.
Hunted as outlaw
40 years ago. Winner of the Alice Prize today
Will new dole
rules work better?
News frenzy
over child rape
Bucketfuls of
cash for the wrong end
Buffel big
threat
yet less cash for study
Being special
in a special place
The fortunate
ones
LETTER: 'I
cannot
live like my grandparents'
Enough to make
a grown man cry
Issue
1320
May 18, 2006.
Alcohol mayhem
needs tough measures - Koch
Budget puzzles
Innocent
bystander
locked up: claim
Former senior
public servant lashes out
Houses empty
amidst clamour for more cash
Irrkerlantye
children enjoying new schools
Alice not too
hot to handle
LETTER: Hand
over cash, don't ask silly questions!
Righty-O, who
stole the autumn?
Issue
1319
May 11, 2006.
Conquering
Simpson
to fight breast cancer
Alice dry: once
more with feeling
Family planning
blow
Rock group cash
probe
Building small
businesses in the bush
Relief for town
camps - visitor accommodation 'immediately'
Alice's own
superman!
Memo's treasure
LETTER: Even
ASIO is more transparent
LETTER 2:
Children
in need: situation is 'dire'.
Shopping frenzy
with murder in mind
Issue
1318
May 4, 2006.
An ace of a
club
Centrecorp:
Elders fume
Black firm in
strife
Slammer likely
for former soccer chief
Aldermen
disagree
on what to do about booze
Many items
re-votes
from 2005
LETTER: Alice,
I'll miss you!
Getting
self-righteous
and yelling
Issue
1317
April 27, 2006.
Cut grog hours:
council
Heritage - a
tale of two outback towns
Pine Gap
'terrorists'
A church for
all comers
LETTER: Will
new owners pay parks' bills?
Life in the
desert no express train
Issue
1316
April 20, 2006.
Goverments must
act on Aboriginal mayhem, says a top Federal advisor
Parks: Not a
giving but a taking away
Do it yourself:
It worked for ski town in US
Panorama Guth:
future uncertainABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTER:
Christian
Pine Gap intruders claim Ruddock ordered prosecutions under a never
used
law
One sees clearly
only with the heart
Issue
1315
April 13, 2006.
Alice has big
say on parks handover. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA and ELISABETH ATTWOOD
Massaging public
on middle schools.
More jobs, fewer
takers students. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
CDEP reforms:
"Let's give them a go"
Money trails
lead to 75 Hartley St
Hungry Ald van
Haaren "out in the cold"
Waste water
excess to requirements?
Larapinta fire
policy ignites
Boundaries vs
open horizons
Is it criminal
to live in the Alice?
A dose of joy
Women's cricket
first
LETTER: The
space base's "great benefits".
Govts shouldn't
behave like corporations
Issue
1314
April 6, 2006.
Keep parks public
Minister is
wavering in front of brick wall
'We think he's
already made his mind up about Anzac: students Report By SINEAD COOK
Parks row could
well go national
Alice scratches
head over grog. Report By ELISABETH ATTWOOD and KIERAN FINNANE
It's not money
that counts
'Three star
Alice' needs backpackers for labour
Alice airport
gets Aboriginal theme
Keep talent
in Alice, say youth reps
LETTER: Mayor's
confusion deliberate?
Don't throw
bunny out with bathwater
Issue
1313
March 30, 2006.
Trucking women
lobby Canberra on fuel and roads
Clean, green,
safe Aspen: how does Alice stack up?
Fortified wine
drinking drops
For trucking
families all roads lead to Alice
Alice council
decides slowly on speed limit
Alice missing
out on wheel good tourism opportunity
Keep talent
in Alice, say youth reps
Laughter best
medicine
LETTER: NT Labor
Government: Is it the 'most taxreforming' or 'big spending, big taxing'?
'Something
stronger
than mutual respect needed'
Issue
1312
March 23, 2006.
'Charitable
institution' Centrecorp tax exempt
Urban drift
could become 'tidal wave'. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Kids are target
for protocols
Lessons for
Alice: open council Aspen-style. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice resident
who's known no peace since Christmas
Overseas workers
vital for local business. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Peta and Erin:
prima ballerinas
Quilts with
silver linings
LETTER: Alice
is a destination in its own right, not a hub.
Gadding, gabbing
and gossiping
Issue
1311
March 16, 2006.
Will Minister
listen? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Middle
schooling?
Hello, We're already doing it. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Bigger Expo,
mixed views on economy. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Debate on
open,welcoming
council undermined. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
No proof of
urban drift but Berrimah Line still there. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Birth of an
art centre. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Proud of who
he was.
LETTER:
Territory
Housing - enforce existing law.
Getting big
picture. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1310
March 9, 2006.
Darwin booms
while Alice busts. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Art drift into
Alice. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
We'er upset
say artists.
Tougher rules
for dole. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Anzac unlikely
to close.
Public should
be in the loop: Alderman Stewart. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Never
mind the danger.
Alice in 10
- Plans skirt the real issues. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1309
March 2, 2006.
Subsidiaries
of multimillion dollar black company pay no rates. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Camel farm
bought
by Rock company. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice: home
of the rising sun. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Clare Martin
and the MLA for Macdonnell. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Has Alice got
a brain drain? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Desert
networking
it really does work. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Boom in
fortified
homes.
Is black housing
a debt we must pay? Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
He worked hard
and played hard. Obituary by ELISABETH ATTWOOD
Real ghost
trains
in the Simpson. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Art business:
taking advantage or taking care. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTER: Alice
on a slippery slope.
Let them eat
cake. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1308
February 23, 2006.
Crackdown on
camping, litter. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Administrator
or black businesses. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice council
budget drop. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Old train at
full steam. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
It's (almost)
all good in friendly Tasmania.
Another year,
another licence. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert knowlage
aids business: Viability, more that economics. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bugget hopes
for Araluen: uninspiring.
Leaving town:
More going than coming. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTER: I'll
never go to Alice again.
Does Alice agree
with your hair? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1307
February 16, 2006.
Urban drift
or urban rush? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice Muslims:
Making a point peacefully. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alison Anderson
in deep water again: Now it's Papunya money laundering allegations.
Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Freemasons help
students. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Shock message
on parks from new Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
LETTER: Parks
are black land.
In tourism,
Tasmania is the mouse that roars. Report by KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Fact, fiction
or fantasy? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1306
February 9, 2006.
Martin's
national
parks strategy hits snag. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Couple targeted
by criminals say police action inadequate. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Catholic
school's
leap forward in TER stakes. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert Knowledge
to lead in many fields, says new boss. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Book celebrates
Kilgariff family's generosity. Reviw by KIERAN FINNANE.
Smone don't
like it hot. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: We're
not short of water.
Our
major stories in our Summer Edition 2005/2006.
It's hard
not to be noisy. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Red
Centre's
early biologist remembered at last
From Alice
to Timor. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD
'With the
help of other people i grasped opportunities and ran with them'. Report
by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Alice
Springs
sportiest family?
'Tourists
came out twice a week on the buses'
Rona Glynn:
a woman with a big heart in the heart of Australia
'One of
the best students for 10 years'
Zita of
zeal comes home. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Goal:
Olympics
2012
Reclaiming
the land
Significant
footprints forward
Issue
1250
December 21, 2005.
The picture
they didn't want you to see. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Culture no
excuse
for child abuse. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Good bye 2005,
and good riddance. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Doc Cunningham,
true man from the bush. Profile by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Alice art has
many faces. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Wagging
school, dirty bombs, an oil company's boast and an Ayers Rock furphy.
Town council
squashes sport. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
I'm dreaming
of a hot Christmas. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Tearful farewell
for Fish as he remembers 2005. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue
1250
December 14, 2005.
$25m to fix
hospital. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Gas royalties
to come under the microscope. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Land council
withdraws parks claims - prelude to handover? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mark Stafford
Smith: 21 years of change. ERWIN CHLANDA talks with noted scientist.
Getting out
of the darkroom. MEG MOONEY, thrid prize winner of the ALICE SPRINGS
NEWS
SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2005.
The camel, the
straw. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
"Orbiting"
answer
fo remote communities? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Young film maker
gets two gorillas. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTES: Liquor
Commission retreats behind Berrimah Line.
Drag decision:
The Finke start line. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Becoming a
father
is easy. Being one is not. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Silence is
golden.
COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1249
December 7, 2005.
Alderman in
Canberra bid to keep parks in public ownership. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Site desecration
with a twist. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Irrkerlantye
to ask Aboriginal investment giant for help. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Car dealer
expanding
"down south".
Salt. By PETA
MILLER. 2nd place in the Alice Springs News short story competition,
sponsored
by The Lane.
Utopia by LENI
SHILTON. Winner of the Alice Springs News poetry competition, sponsored
by Dymocks Booksellers.
Taking a boat
into the long break. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Trust, tricks
and daring acts. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS:
Irrkerlantye
- horses for courses.
Issue
1248
November 30, 2005.
Town Council's
strong stance could trigger parks policy change: Senator Scullion.
Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
National parks
- Opportunities, politics, spin and law. Overview by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Public servant
denies Papunya allegations - but questions remain. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Upbeat view
of cattlemen's future. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
"Late starter"
wins Alice Springs News short story competition. Introduction by KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTER: Dismay
over Araluen's Sunday closure.
Non-interacting
backpackers. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Search for
presents
can frustrate. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1247
November 23, 2005.
Town Council
firm on parks handover. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal
painters:
Big bucks, big bang. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Minister was
in cover-up: Latest Papunya allegation. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Oil and gas
royalties: Get rich slowly scheme. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sacred site
"apparently" damaged.
Alice bowling
club to close. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Ayers Rock
Resort
may get runway upgrade. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Booze, litter,
begging, violence: Native title holders say "enough". Report by
ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Rich in ideas
and invention. Review by KIERAN FINNANE. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Go the Jam!
Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Territory
artists
give depth to Alice Prize. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
More public
housing, tougher on misconduct. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTER: Think
big, invest small.
No pool tenders.
Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Footy ban
appeal.
Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Not a good
Aussie.
COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Too late for
what? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1246
November 16, 2005.
$7m building
for university. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert artists
hot! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alison Anderson
dodges questions about $1m project flop. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Budget starved
Araluen forced to close Sundays! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
New laws:
Opinion
or sedition?
LETTERS: More
questions about college at The Rock.
Leaning Centre
steamrolled, teachers told not to speak out. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Racing strip
debate dargs on. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
He's a Northen
Territory "thing". Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Wizard and Oz
start a revolution. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Aussie Rules:
Should Souths be banned from footy? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
What you learn
from other people's phone calls. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
A mental diet
for all senses. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1245
November 9, 2005.
Alice women
at CLP helm: Salvo from new president. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Asian workers
take jobs local Aborigines won't. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Raise booze
prices, says academic. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Territory Budget
in strife, says Opposition. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Government has
camels shot, leaves them to rot. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Where will Clare
Martin store Territory's nuclear waste? Report by KIERAN FINNANE and
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Sporting
identity
nearly killed by falling branch.
Mining mates
make money. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Sport with
ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Politicising
the personal. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Women are
witches:
notion lingers. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1244
November 2, 2005.
Juvenile
program:
Little to show for $650,000. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hayes family
100 years in The Centre. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Touting tourism
with beer and banter. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Clare Martin:
Queen of spin. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Macadamia of
The Centre? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Croc Fest kids
reach for the sky. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Cancer survivors
in big money raising sports day. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Alice needs
more public art. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
"Bushies" come
to town. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Blind date
perfect
match. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
A witness to
your life. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Stop fighting
the heat. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: The
selfish and the cynical.
Issue
1243
October 26, 2005.
Nuke dumps:
all states will have one. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rock revisited
after 20 years. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rock college
turmoil. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
How to keep
Latham from your kids. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Save water,
shower with a friend. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Charity
erxtravaganza.
Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Craig's over
the moon. Report by NIGEL MOODY, Trainer.
Leading the
nation keeps Alice drivers off the streets. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Cricket: Demons
have got them scared. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Issue
1242
October 19, 2005.
Pollies hammered
over nuke dump. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Town Council,
NT Government deal in doubt. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Petrol sniffing
timebomb. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Great art in
new home. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Black art: $12m
needed. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
A
straightforward
solution. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Queenslander
wins big Alice golf purse. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Racing: Girl
proves Precious for Lefoe. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Cricket: Memo
Rovers return. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTERS:
Aboriginal
ownership could control parks.
Peeling back
the layers. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The joys of
being out of range. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue
1241
October 12, 2005.
Festival
rudderless
again. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Canberra's
self-help
plan to end aboriginal misery. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Environment:
hope and fear for Elice. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice drying
up.
What a way to
"keep" an election promise. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sniffing: Zero
tolerance is working. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Pit hit in city.
Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Living relic
of the plant world. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Camp dogs are
covered by town council by-laws. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice hospital:
48 hours on a trolley. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Speedway blokes
look out: Woman driver! Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Cricket hits
off. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Washed up in
Winnellie. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Spoonfuls of
sugar. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: Cask
liners and plastic bags are everywhere.
Issue
1240
October 5, 2005.
Camel boom
ahead.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Wearable Art
a stunner. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
People oppose
parks policies: Ald van Haaren. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Drags: Full
throttle to - where? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice Springs
hospital a gruelling experience. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Hospital
overcrowding
is just business as usual. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Daniel Measures:
Lifting his game. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
A taste of
Europe
for Alice. By STEPHANIE SMAIL.
Women's cricket
first time ever in Centre. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Inside a musical
box. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Alice Springs,
the real world. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: Whom
should we put last next time round?
Issue
1239
September 28, 2005.
Parks issue
hits council. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Land council
claims. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
It's crunch
time for town camps. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Buffel battle:
Send cattle into the fray? In a park? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Reunited! Report
by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Treadmill to
nowhere. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Spending. COLUMN
by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: Gerry
votes but still gets a fine.
"All I've ever
wanted to do is play for Australia." Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
The best talent
is in regional Australia: Kieren Perkins. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
More Aussie
rules golden days? ELISABETH ATTWOOD talks with footy old-timer REG
HARRIS.
Travel funds
initiative. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Nuclear Bazza
sensed cash. Report by ALEX NELSON.
Official: West
is best. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Sensational
sixth season success. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Spending. COLUMN
by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS:
Evolution
is part of science curriculum.
Issue
1238
September 21, 2005.
New subdivision
brawl. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council poll:
Litter, crime main concerns. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Parks handover
not an issue for council, CATIA. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rotary: We'll
get on and do it while governments think about it. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Nuclear Bazza
sensed cash. Report by ALEX NELSON.
Official: West
is best. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Sensational
sixth season success. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Evolution vs
Intelligent Design: Independent thinkers or sheep? COLUMN by VIKTORIA
CORMACK.
Financial
freedom.
COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
LETTERS:
Evolution
is part of science curriculum.
Issue
1237
September 14, 2005.
CLP in last
ditch bid to stop transfer of parks ownership. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
National parks
native title deal: Labor's first big mistake? Report by by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Buffel may cover
half the country.
"Landcare
doubled
productivity." Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Lust for
learning.
Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.