Is pepper spray just the beginning, asks Frank Baarda in his column.

Why "musical"? Because the cheeky column is always linked to a song.

Why "front"? Because it's the line to which the settlers' colonial enterprise advanced.

A large number of people from Lajamanu and from Yuendumu, the home town of Kumanjayi White who died in custody on May 27, came to Alice Springs to attend a vigil, to march and mourn. By ERWIN CHLANDA.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Talk tough on crime, abandon those who fight it. That's the message NT Police are hearing loud and clear from the CLP Government following its latest shameful pay offer to officers – proving their promises were nothing more than political spin, writes Nathan Finn, NT Police Association president.

West Australian brothers Travis and Beau Robinson starred in the Tatts Finke Desert Race.

Travis (pictured) claimed his first car King of the Desert crown after finishing with the fastest overall time on Race Day Two, ahead of his brother, the reigning champion.

Corey Hammond from NSW won in the bikes.

By ERWIN CHLANDA

Zachary Rolfe, who fatally shot Kumanjayi Walker in 2019, is described as a “Soldier Policeman Hero” on a website promoting guest speakers, offering his services for between $5001 and 10,000. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.

The flies plague is threatening to put a dampener on the exodus from town to enjoy the Finke Desert Race, usually some 12,000 people heading south for a camping weekend. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.

I struggle to see any merit in the Alice Springs Town Council's bizarre project of civic overreach. COMMENT by MIKE GILLAM

Kumanjayi White, who died in custody in Alice Springs this week, had his own house in Yuendumu but in recent times his family and the community had found it impossible to make satisfactory arrangements for his care. Exclusive report by ERWIN CHLANDA.

A group of locals are taking a fresh look at Adelaide House in Todd Mall, the town’s first hospital and usually seen as a monument to the revered Reverend John Flynn, a product of his “hard work and advocacy.” It was an important part of the “mantle of safety” Flynn of the Inland envisioned for the people of the outback. So long as they were white. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.

Letter to the Editor

The young Warlpiri man who died in police custody in Coles in Alice Springs on Tuesday May 27 is my jaja (grandson).

Our family, all Warlpiri people and many other people here in Central Australia are devastated by this death.

Ned Jampjinpa Hargraves, Yuendumu

PHOTO: Arrest in the Yipirinya shopping centre on June 10, 2020. Alice Springs News photo.