Alice Springs News archive 1516

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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.