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Issue 1824 July 21,
2011
PM
will be asked to help Alice's flagging tourism industry. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Fly-in,
fly-out desert knowledge. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice airport could close in major flood. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rod
Moss wins Prime Minister's literary award. By
JACQUIE CHLANDA in Canberra and ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Special reports
by KIERAN FINNANE about the alcohol abuse crisis:
Stopping
the next generation of alcoholics
before they start.
Alice at the table of Canberra grog
summit.
Cheap wine: Coles says it will lose
revenue, not
profiteer.
Bring
back the cheap booze: town council.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Coles
takes lead against ultra-cheap wine. (Posted June 23.)
"As long as
adults drink, younger people will." (Posted June 23.)
Smug
leaders are letting down their town:
alderman. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Local
business needs shot in the arm. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Letter
to the Editor: Leaders in
government's pocket?
Cows'
stink? No, it's man made. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pine
Gap: Expose or the official story? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Town
camp artists commissioned by Darwin Festival. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Last migrations. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Itchy
feet and big brain. By ESTELLE ROBERTS. (MOZZIE BITES is on holidays.)
Issue 1823 July 14,
2011
Ultra clean diesel
from Simpson Desert coal? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Let's have more
'art' in public art. KIERAN FINNANE comments.
After
six months at a truck stop – oasis Alice! By ESTELLE
ROBERTS (MOZZIE BITES is on holidays).
LETTERS:
Love, sadness for The Red Centre and Aussie arts and crafts
Issue 1822 July 7,
2011
Accommodation for vulnerable young people rolling out. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
$3m
new tourist centre for Flying
Doctor in Alice.
Alice
local retains
title in galactical speed beanie-making contest. By ERWIN
CHLANDA
Coming home to make a home. My
Town – an occasional series
about
people and places in Alice
Springs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Cut,
rip, tear & wear: Alice Springs
cheek and creativity. By KIERAN FINNANE.
MOZZIE BITES: To
climb or not
to climb?
Issue 1821 June 30,
2011
Emily catalogue would cast
light on forgeries.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
An end to the stink of Perfume Creek? By
ERWIN CHLANDA
OPINION by ALDERMAN JOHN RAWNSLEY after a lively
exchange on Twitter between him, Prof Rolf Gerritsen and the Alice Springs News Online.
Shooter pleads guilty, says he was on Ice. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Prove
you're sorry: judge.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
MOZZIE
BITES falls in love
Issue 1820 June 23,
2011
Statehood
debate a distraction from necessary reform – Follow-up. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Finke celebrates Alice Springs as
a can-do
town. Video & story ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pollies
agree: cattle ban must go.
Success
no longer a 'shame job' at Centralian College.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Many
ways to kill a mouse. Video & story ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Dead and dying trees now a traffic hazard. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
MOZZIE BITES: Banjos or hubcaps: Finke or
Folk?
Issue 1819 June 9,
2011
Statehood debate a distraction from
necessary reform. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The
decline of Central Australian political representation. COMMENT by ALEX
NELSON.
Cattle exporter attacks Four Corners, letter circulates
amongst pastoralists.
Success no longer a 'shame job' at
Centralian College. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Challenges for democracy in the Central
Desert super-shire. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Crime stats:
Government scratches to find good news, Opposition crows over bad.
Alice is the land of opportunity, say youthful leaders. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 1818 June 2,
2011
Cruelty
to cattle 'inhumane' but trade must go on, say cattlemen. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Details of council's secret parks
plan revealed. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council brawl: more than
just about parks. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Deputy
Mayor Liz Martin on plane graveyard,
selling parks, and council rift.
How Territory blundering could help
the nation. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hargrave
manslaughter: convicted man gets
nine and half years.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
COMMENT:
The race backlash that didn't happen. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice
is the land of opportunity, say
youthful leaders.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aircraft
'storage': The spin, the reality. COMMENT by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Native
title: the traditional law
men and women have final say. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
The
native title story so far.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Costs slow development on
Melanka block.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Managers
of new pool in deep
water.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The
winter blurs. MOZZIE BITES with
Ronja Moss.
Issue 1817 May 26,
2011
Big
plans for Owen Springs, Henbury Station? By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
More
bang for patrol bucks.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mixed
reception
for aircraft graveyard. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
The
great parks robbery? Not, says Melky. By
KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN CHLANDA.
YOUR
SAY: Which
four parks?
Gallery
expands its range.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mauled
Missy. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
I
may not be a cavewoman ... MOZZIE BITES with Ronja Moss.
Issue 1816 May 19,
2011
The
great parks robbery? Not, says Melky. By KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN
CHLANDA.
YOUR
SAY: Which
4 parks? Letter from Hal Duell.
Why
the numbers matter. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mauled
Missy. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Police
patrols 'saturate' CBD.
Keeping cool at Araluen.
Salvos
return much more to Alice than they collect. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Lessons in how to keep
house.
MacDonnell
shire CEO resigns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Reviews
of future shire finances welcomed.
A fine small town, quite an easy life. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
The
wide open space of home. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
MOZZIE
BITES by RONJA MOSS: Hanging out for that cinema hit.
Issue 1815 May 12,
2011
Federal Budget: not much new
for The Centre. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
MacDonnell Shire says 'no' to
India: more than $50,000 lost. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mall
display screen ... it all depends on your point of view! By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Planned bush bus service
raises concerns. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sell parks –
hire rangers: Melky. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Shire feels fuel sting. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Intervention goes full circle. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
New horizons for Alice
gallery-owner. By KIERAN FINNANE.
From kangaroos to snakes a
surefire hit for visitors ... but tourism lobby gives him the cold
shoulder. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
MOZZIE BITES WITH RONJA MOSS: LA
judges fly in for best kept secret event in Alice.
LETTERS: Whitegums Browns back Kilgariff suburb; Mall nonsense.
Issue 1814 May 5,
2011
Units up, houses down.
Tourism 'clawing back'. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
NT Budget for Alice: nothing to write
home about. By KIERAN FINNANE.
New public order focus in Town Council
budget.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
NANCARROW'S
ARROWS: Hell is a
place on earth.
MOZZIE
BITES by RONJA MOSS: The ultimate modern
meets long forgotten ages.
Transformation of an
'eyesore'. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1813 April 28,
2011
Stop talking to Uncle Toms,
says elder after Abbott meeting. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tony Abbott meets lawmen in
bush, talks tough in Alice Springs. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Top cop says sorry. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
New suburb a chance for government heroism. COMMENT
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
MP condemns
pokies increase. By KIERAN FINNANE.
NANCARROW'S ARROWS: The mateship and the suffering.
MOZZIE
BITES by RONJA MOSS: A fest for desert enthusiasts.
LETTERS:
Screwing Alice into the dirt.
Issue 1812 April 21,
2011
From
council dump to super green project: Melbourne environment park example
for Alice. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
The
youth justice merry-go-round. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Drive-in heritage listing revoked:
Developers get their way.
How to slow
bleed the urban life out of a city: Alice’s approach to urbanism.
COMMENT by TARSHA FINNEY.
More money for Kilgariff infrastructure.
'Tsunami' of support
for Bess Price. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice’s
First Olympic Pool.
LETTERS:
In
a real emergency we would not have time to wait for the Counter
Disaster Committee
Issue 1811 April 14,
2011
Govt
green light for 100 more casino pokies enrages Mayor. By KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Animal
bars 'encouraged' to lift their game. By KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Mister Shaun
killed in tragic accident.
Shire
jobs to India: CEO hauled over the coals. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Fun police. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rangers 'take
gloves off'. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Remote control sends
community into downward spiral – yet again. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
NANCARROW'S
ARROWS: Septic
tanks and pool Nazis
MOZZIE
BITES by RONJA MOSS: Too much success!
LETTERS:
Does this town need a working class? If so, Kilgariff blocks must sell
at $60,000.
Heritage
Fest.
Official pool fun starts Sunday.
Issue 1810 April 7,
2011
Native
Title Holders pull the rug from under Lhere Artepe Corporation. By ERWIN CHLANDA and
KIERAN FINNANE.
Alcohol
ID system a dud? By ERWIN CHLANDA
Cow
paddock to suburb of
Kilgariff: Blocks for $250,000? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Risky
main character for Alice author's second novel. REVIEW by
KIERAN FINNANE.
In
her father's footsteps.
NANCARROW'S
ARROWS: Keeping
the balls in the air.
LETTERS: How can there be oder if there is no law?
Issue 1809 March 31,
2011
Chief
Minister Paul Henderson snubs Alice Springs protest crowd. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Call
to sack native title organisation CEO: Pearce clarifies "show cause"
notice. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
NANCARROW'S
ARROWS: Speed
dating with Paul Kelly.
MOZZIE BITES with RONJA MOSS: A
roaring riot of fun.
Billy
Benn: The music of his brush. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Everyone have
a say!
Issue 1808 March 24,
2011
Native
title body asked to 'show cause' why it should not be put into special
administration. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Flood warning
system flawed. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Old drive-in to become new residential subdivision. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Don't
trust Territory with Federal money. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Good dialogue, good actors. By KIERAN FINNANE.
NANCARROW
ARROW: My
dog loves cheese.
MOZZIE BITES with RONJA MOSS: Proper desert boogying.
Issue 1807 March 17,
2011 – our first edition exclusively online
The Hargrave
murder trial: Updates by KIERAN FINNANE.
OTHER REPORTS
After cold shoulder from Territory government, Gap Youth Centre gets
$1.35m from Canberra. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Conlan, Cameco email leaked. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The 'secret sauce'
for
sharing our story. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Magnifique!
Having a fat time in France.
MOZZIE BITES with RONJA MOSS: Alice zine scene.
DISCUSSION: Sell meat of camels or shoot
them and let them rot in the desert?
Issue 1806 March 10,
2011
The Hargrave murder trial: Updates by KIERAN FINNANE.
Ban troublemakers from town – Melky. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
The News now only on the net.
We will not go: it’s home. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The word ‘vagina’ a no-no? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Our flood protection won’t cut it. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rain holds off for Al. By CHRIS WALSH.
Butt contact sport. By MOZZIE BITES with RONJA MOSS.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Are
we making another forsaken generation?
LETTERS: The heartache about our kids.
Issue 1805 March 3,
2011
Four NT Ministers snub pleas for help. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Anger and sadness about the children of the town. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Yuendumu growth plan: Any more mistakes? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shutting up shop. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ald Melky? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Curfew in context. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hush, hush Hampton. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Henley-on-Todd battleships to cruise V8 Supercar track. By CHRIS WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: I’m
doing this for you, Alice.
LETTERS: ‘Sad but uplifting’
Issue 1804 February 24,
2011
Letting off steam, yet consensus that care for kids must be the focus.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
In full swing amidst the "mayhem". By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cattlemen fear shire rates hike. By KIERAN FINNANE.
No exodus from the shires.
The only debate in town. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Never forget where home is. By RONJA MOSS.
Can the Lucky Country help? By KIERAN FINNANE.
An American love affair. By CHRIS WALSH.
LETTERS: By-election blows.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Melanka’s
at midnight.
Issue 1803 February 17,
2011
Pro gang in safe heists? By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cops all out on crime but aldermen want more. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice no place for patrolling dogs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aileron to be major mining centre? By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Carey Builders never registered in the NT. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pools going under? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Top NT reading is from The Centre. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ups, downs in the Mall. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
A ‘lifestyle experience’ to beat shopping blues. By KIERAN FINNANE.
It’s not a matter of getting from A to B. By CHRIS WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: A
few simple ideas for dealing with politicians and spin.
LETTERS: Taking home horror stories.
Issue 1802 February 10,
2011
Dam is still a puzzle. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Indigenous art & The Centre: A push for reversing the flow. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
It’s beauty that makes Aboriginal art great. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The fantastic 80s.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Gondwana closing.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Brainy bunch: Pips is ahead.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
When politics stink: $266 for public poo.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Territory on your mind?
Three generations on speedway track. By CHRIS WALSH.
LETTERS: Council guilty as charged, says Ald Stewart.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Escaped drowning by the skin of his teeth.
Issue 1801 February 3,
2011
Law and order tops agenda. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Home and Away: The Alice and the rest of the world. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council’s legal costs better than expected. By KIERAN FINNANE.
$250,000 facility for bush school but where are the kids? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Work on AZRI proceeds apace. By KIERAN FINNANE.
National Indigenous art gallery: Alice must get it. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aussie Day beaut utes. By CHRIS WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Sight-seeing in Egypt’s revolutionary times.
Issue 1746 December 16,
2010
News and views: Our Christmas message.
Alice buzzes: Town Council's great bash.
Centre’s rep is at the top in national health debate. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dump firm out.
A unique Christmas dinner: bush flavours fused with classic recipes.
Alice is mostly great: 2011 is time to tackle what’s not. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hotrod Santa drops in on speedway. By CHRIS
WALSH.
Going solar without going solo.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Merry Christmas – but go easy on the beverages.
LETTERS:
Todd Mall is for tourists, not skaters.
Issue 1745 December 9,
2010
Big audience for Terry’s secret chat with Leo. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
What did ‘get ceNTred’ yield? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Empire built on shoe leather worn out in Europe & Japan. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Serious assault accused free on bail. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Arlparra School digs deep. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Second class statehood is not the answer. COMMENT by DR CHARLIE CARTER.
Cabaret exposes greed, hubris, and other sins. By RUSSELL GUY.
Be concerned, be very concerned. By VICTOR ZULU and DELTA TANGO, aka
Blair and Jenny McFarland.
Joy of colour. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hello concrete canyon Alice? By KIERAN FINNANE.
You don’t have to run away to join this circus! By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Ridges Estate block owners done over?
Issue 1744 December 2,
2010
Welcoming youth in CBD?
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourism: new broom. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bulldoze or preserve: here we go again. By KIERAN FINNANE.
A Cinema Park?
In the boot. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice streetscape: death by a thousand cuts. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Lesson needed in supply and demand.
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The power of the desert. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sister Bertha’s great contribution to the
Alice community. By JENNY MONTEFIORE.
Take no prisoners at the Demo Derby.
By CHRIS WALSH.
POLLY POINTS: Violence
condemned as offences soar.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Small
town technicolour dreams and freak shows.
Issue 1743 November 25,
2010
Our lifestyle town?
By KIERAN FINNANE.
"So the gun was pointed at the man and the trigger was pulled." By KIERAN FINNANE.
Decades pass, problems remain. By ALEX
NELSON.
‘Can do’ council is the developer of 7-stage residential subdivision. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Town planning crossroads. COMMENT by
DOMENICO PECORARI.
Cool hotrods & street machines.
By CHRIS WALSH.
Through a looking glass. By MIKE GILLAM.
Alice raises $10,000 for victims of floods in Pakistan.
Is IAD for Aborigines or for Arrernte?
LETTER: Share our salad dressing.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Pregnancy is a laugh, so long as it’s not
you.
POLLY POINTS: Um, is that down or up?
Issue 1742 November 18,
2010
Waterhole shooting shock.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Outback way OK. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Todd neglected as weeds take it over. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Thorny issues in leaders forum.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Did Abbott offer a job to
Abbott? By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Temporary lodgings: rains
delay completion. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Power struggle.
Local talent shines.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Growing a garden together ‘just a normal thing of life’.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
IAD an institute for Arrernte only? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Prangs packed a long night with top action.
By CHRIS WALSH.
LETTERS: Big Gigs give all a chance.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Lessons for The Alice in Cairns?
Pollies points.
Issue 1741 November 11,
2010
Fine-tuning the big gigs. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Council & dump firm in court.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Runs on board for new Rock resort owners.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Vexed questions on running multi million dollar Aboriginal royalty
corporations. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Alice window onto Pakistan.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Poll shapes up as Greens vs conservative contest.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
More pools in desert towns are looking
for funding.
New book tells cracking story of the earliest Papunya artists.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
PeeWees give it a handful. By
CHRIS WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: What a week!
LETTERS: Racism can be black as well as
white.
Issue 1740 November 4,
2010
‘Infill’ will save the government money while changing your life. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Mining millions fuel eight figure deals in
desert.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Music saw him through.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Up and coming speedway juniors as an
honoured senior passes on. By
CHRIS WALSH.
Chatting with muses.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hampton: long on announcements, short on
answers.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Inequality shakes faith in the
town she loves.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Top Gear, polar bears and lifting weights
with your testicles.
Issue 1739 October 28,
2010
Town planning: promises, promises.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Making the most of climate change but the problems can’t be ignored.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council seeks to avoid $65,000 by-election. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Coordinator General recommendations: ‘Take ‘em or leave ‘em’, says
Minister.
Desert flows with water. Part Two. By DICK KIMBER.
Getting on board the Soultrain.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Speedway: Shooting for double points.
By CHRIS WALSH.
POP
VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY: Kelly
in Alice before too long.
NANCARROW
ARROW: I
like to see bands play their instruments.
LETTERS:
Zonings increasingly no guarantee.
Issue 1738 October 21,
2010
Ayers Rock Resort: Lots of jobs for locals. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Land council deputy: no record or penalty.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Child protection fiasco tortures most
vulnerable.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Driving offences skyrocket: Bad drivers
or more police? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Booze litter deadlock.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
They’re keen and they’re mean.
Nature inspires in Miss Pink’s garden.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert trip of a lifetime. By DICK KIMBER.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Oopsy, I have upset someone.
LETTERS:
No monitoring of uranium drilling?
Issue 1737 October 14,
2010
Indigenous Land Corp buys Ayers Rock resort. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Born-again Desert Knowledge group takes first
steps. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Council wants say on town planning. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Vandals strike across town. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Araluen: Swings, roundabouts. COMMENT by ALEX
NELSON.
Eyes wide open to beauty and danger. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Youngsters in the fast lane. By CHRIS WALSH.
Health praise. By KIERAN FINNANE.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Racism,
country and games.
LETTERS:
Uranium – Shaun’s arrow in the foot?
Issue 1736 October 7,
2010
U-mine decision under cloud. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
U-lobby: It’s not over yet.
Araluen by-election: Questions on notice.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Support for a ‘higher’ rise town centre and
call for a moratorium south of Gap.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Town council too secret.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Araluen and Alice longtime safe ground for CLP.
BACKGROUND by ALEX NELSON.
Charity pulls collectors over suspicions of duress.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Thunder down under. By
CHRIS WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Who wants a poisonous cesspit
in the middle of their loungeroom?
LETTERS:
Housing shortage drives people out of the Territory.
Issue 1735 September 30,
2010
Uranium: what consultation?
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
IT award for Territory’s only philosophy teacher. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Trials in Alice and Darwin
delayed as jury array quashed by full court. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Planning not profit will make Alice a better place, claims a new group.
The old ladies of Chewings Street. By ANNE PYE.
POP
VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY: Stepping outside the Metal scene.
Alice
fest from afar. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Framptons boss makes demands
from Alice News under Defamation Act, gets apology.
Wingless sprintcars: The good & the bad. By
CHRIS WALSH.
LETTERS: ‘68 was Flower Power
season!
NANCARROW
ARROW: Footy is a cruel mistress.
Issue 1734 September 23,
2010
Bush slum millionaires.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Findlay: Listen first, talk later.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Town planning: Do as I say, not as I do.
COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Hargrave murder accused say they can’t
get fair trial.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Casino: Will multi million project go
interstate? By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
She was a top trainer for more than 50 years,
now she’s demoted to a strapper. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Festival: Local funny brigade hold their own.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bushfood judge ‘blown away’.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
POP
VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY: Mask-a-raiders!
Veteran biker tough vintage. By
CHRIS WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Camping
joy (not).
LETTERS: Boy stripped of medals wins them
back.
Issue 1733 September 16,
2010
In white man’s time this is the best season ever.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Land Council heavy charged. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Snowdon on again, off again after poor showing. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Alice’s new desert leaders, and how they will make a difference. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert art on full throttle.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
From tradition to innovation.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
The cops are coming! By
CHRIS WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Puppies
and sunshine
LETTERS: Shake, rattle and roll?
Issue 1732 September 9,
2010
CBD mostly 5 storeys.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Candidate's strong views on housing, grog abuse. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Big agenda for bush schools. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Home at last. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
TOs and rangers join to to eradicate buffel grass.
Resilient Aboriginal art.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert Festival: Freshness and heart. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Flavours from the world and the bush on the menu around Alice this
month.
POP
VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY: Boom bada boom.
Harley thunder rolls across Alice. By
CHRIS WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Misery
tourists, politicians and other irritants.
LETTERS: Golden Pig award.
Issue 1731 September 2,
2010
1000 trucks make Alice roar to life. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Camps grog ban to go.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tough talker on Islam set to test freedom of speech. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Nuisance rains are a worry for fire fighters.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Good school attendance is
getting results.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Natural born story teller. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Feeding the multitudes.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Crook
as a woofer.
LETTERS: We have all heard of the ‘do
gooders’ – now what about the "do badders"?
Issue 1730 August 26,
2010
Abbott scores in bush. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Snowdon gains votes as CL self-immolates. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Alice Country Liberals boss – no reason why Abbott shouldn’t run again.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Intervention is to blame. COMMENT by ROLF GERRITSEN.
Native title value: WA 5%, Alice Springs 50%. By KIERAN
FINNANE and ERWIN CHLANDA.
Yuendumu pool: one summer at a time?
ERROR: Batons only for aggressive dogs.
Waterhole shooting victim yet to identify perpetrator.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Night of the year. By KIERAN FINNANE.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Knowing
the future is not what it’s cracked up to be.
LETTERS: ‘Right’ to drink argument misses
the point.
Issue 1729 August 19,
2010
Abbott a pawn? By ERWIN CHLANDA with additional reporting by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Who will benefit from AZRI - airport development? By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Way out for council on liquor litter case. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourists, river campers watch
out: by-laws will be enforced. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Appeals from Spears, Kloeden
rejected. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Govt. will keep sharp eye on
new town camp homes.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert triumph in national awards.
Old Timers Fete $ bonanza.
LETTERS: Mental illness affects many in community.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Lesson
given, lesson taken.
Issue 1728 August 12,
2010
Parks handover subject to legal advice, says Coalition. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Sunny forecast. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Waterhole shooting: new charge.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Job creation, Gillard style:
The spin and the real world.
By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Stuart statue comes and goes.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Namatjira: Unexpected comedy. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The bikes are back at
speedway! By
CHRISANNE WALSH.
Locals join GetUp election initiative.
LETTERS: Salute to Ingkerreke’s focus on
independence.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Laughing
and crying as they departed this world.
Issue 1727 August 5,
2010
Freemasons' statue: Comic opera. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aboriginal CL candidate canes NT Labor’s parks handover policies. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Snowdon: Welfare projects to aid economy. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
New owners pursue cheap wall solution. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Spin award for an overstated claim? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Acacia trees from Centre combat hunger in Africa By KIERAN FINNANE.
Albert’s legacy lives in paint & on stage.
A new life for your old tiles.
Alan Page: Volunteer extraordinaire. MOTOR
SPORT with CHRISANNE WALSH.
LETTERS: Statue fiasco has led to
‘confrontation, distrust’.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Statutory
declaration – letting the town down.
Issue 1726 July 29,
2010
Parks deal a ‘fraud’. EXCLUSIVE by
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Aboriginal company loses SIHIP work. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Giant statue agreed to in secrecy and in haste. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Araluen solar plant is down but not out. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Candid, courageous, moving & hilarious. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Giving it a shot where the loaded guys race. MOTOR
SPORT with CHRISANNE WALSH.
Move over, Roadshow.
LETTERS: Independent says drop big parties.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Power
of persuasion.
Issue 1725 July 22,
2010
Alice won’t get Gillard grant. By KIERAN FINNANE.
More money for Yuendumu but none to keep pool open. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rent complaints harder in the NT. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Black and white paintings for The Mall, seat doubling as dunny will be
removed. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Government may force alcohol traders to sell, despite the clean slate. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Todd River: A bridge too late. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Process, not productivity?
By KIERAN FINNANE.
All in the family. MOTOR
SPORT with CHRISANNE WALSH.
The talented Miss
Sometimes. By KIERAN FINNANE.
NANCARROW
ARROW: There
is a Moose in the Hoose.
LETTERS:
Aborigines need jobs not programs.
Issue 1724 July 15,
2010
Pool opened with big fanfare may be closed. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
String of conditions proposed for mall art sellers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Were signatures on Carey, Framptons documents forged? By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Rents keep going up? Let’s not stifle private enterprise, says
Opposition. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
‘Commendable record’ for 48 years helps service station to keep
take-away licence. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Abbott is angry over jobs procrastination. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Women at the centre of birthing decisions.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Exceptional wildflowers – beyond the buffel. By ALEX NELSON.
Nicki looms large. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘If you’re in my way, you’ll know I’m
there’. By
CHRISANNE WALSH.
SIHIP sighs. OUTSIDE the SQUARE with ERWINCHLANDA.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Sick
of the rain yet? I am.
LETTERS: The truth about Panorama Guth.
Issue 1723 July 8,
2010
Aboriginal interests buy Kmart complex for $16m. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Show shines after rains. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Keeping that community feeling. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Todd Mall hawkers: Council concessions? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Major mining in The Centre not affected
by Gillard deal. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Less than 1% improvement in primary
school attendance in Intervention communities. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Fiona O'Loughlin: Winning back the hearts
and laughs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Proverbial sore thumb in the middle of an
artwork. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Be part of the design of the new town
pool.
Bold painting from old men of the Kimberleys. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Town camp artists among finalists in major award.
My life with a (motor) addict. By
CHRISANNE WALSH.
NANCARROW
ARROW: Alice
winter wonderland – the camels.
LETTERS: Real world jobs can have their own problems.
POP
VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY: Foot
problems, itchy skin, a walking ailment and gastro: ignore the stars.
Issue 1722 July 1,
2010
Working in the real world. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Killing the goose that lays the golden egg? By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Power & Water busts deadlines for stopping Perfume Creek flows.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Error
Zero tolerance for payback: police. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
From racing to restoring Mo’s
followed his dream. By
CHRISANNE WALSH.
Beanie Fest inspires a play.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Art
& music, today, tonight and pretty soon.
NANCARROW
ARROW: What
a great time to get scared.
The highs and lows for backpackers in Alice. By ANNE-LAURE POLIAN.
Issue 1721 June 24,
2010
The mining super tax and us. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Liquor litter charge gone. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Young, confident and going for it.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘Perfume Creek’ is flowing again.
‘Safe and sober’ new grog
front. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourism puzzle: Bums in beds but who are they? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Disturbing questions about government appointed regulator. COMMENT by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Gaol for art firm fraud.
New art gallery finds a home among tradies, contractors.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Showtime. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Exhibitions on a bender. POP
VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
NANCARROW ARROW: School is cool, holidays are better!
LETTERS:
Child protection system ‘broken’.
Issue 1720 June 17,
2010
Two probes into Frampton, Carey homes scandal. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Accused shooter just out of gaol. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Loving, leaving Alice. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Alice host to Charlie and Di gets seven years for drug deals. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
By-laws blast-off. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Jumping in, perks and all. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Buffel: The good and the bad. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
25 years of love and anguish. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Cable laying: residents fear trees may be damaged.
An askew review of
alternative land art. POP
VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS:
Red Centre Way sign an "abomination".
NANCARROW'S ARROWS: Moving on party tradition in Alice.
Issue 1719 June 10,
2010
The newAnzac school. By KIERAN FINNANE.
When both sides are right, or wrong. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Blot
on landscape. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Third man charged. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Finke: Chasing the big one. By
CHRISANNE WALSH.
Men behaving like tyrants towards their
partners need to be brought to account.
Lascivious librarians looking for late love.
LETTERS: Hampton failing Alice Springs?
ADAM'S
APPLE SWANSONG: In Alice, the reward outweighs the effort.
Issue 1718 June 3,
2010
Council rate hike? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Lots of smiles and a fair bit of tough talk. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Drunk driver in council vehicle wipes out drag car on a trailer. By
KIERAN FINNANE and CHRISANNE WALSH.
Tourism season start well overdue.
By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Ryder death: Spears appeals. By KIERAN FINNANE. The Alice News online
edition broke this story on May 24.
Chief Justice: Courts can’t cure the causes of crime. INTERVIEW by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
What it means to be an Aboriginal person. BOOK REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
26
years as a ‘race mum’. By
CHRISANNE WALSH.
Finke persistence pays off.
By
CHRISANNE WALSH.
LETTERS:
Revive the old drive-in!
ADAM'S
APPLE: Belief
takes people on incredible journeys.
Issue 1717 May 27,
2010
Ryder sentences appealed. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert Centre: Work, not programs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Speed stats tell the story. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Elusive numbers.
Malarndirri big on spin. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Shires: it isn’t how many people but where they live that counts. PART
TWO of a report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Jol has the Finke in his blood.
By CHRISANNE WALSH.
Roasting
a chook to reading Proust.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Araluen
solar plant will go behind the building.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ready,
set, laugh – it’s all in the moves.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Neo
communications. POP
VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: We would have paid Docker $450,000 for their camels.
ADAM'S
APPLE: Magical moments.
Company of brothers. By TIRAS GREENSILL.
Issue 1716 May 20,
2010
5000 beds, 8000 guests. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
50 km/h in Alice? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Abbott a Snowdon look-alike? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Big camel meat project launched as new aerial slaughter starts with
funding from Garrett. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Racial
divide no surprise. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice’s
green machine. Part Two of an article by KIERAN
FINNANE looking
at the Arid Lands Environment Centre.
Shires poor cousins of municipal councils.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Natural
history display will stay at Museum of Central Australia.
A hypothetical species. By ALEX NELSON.
Under cover of darkness. By CHRISANNE WALSH.
Planning for future Alice.
LETTERS: Support talent, don’t persecute Mall hawkers of paintings.
ADAM'S
APPLE: Lurking near the frozen peas.
POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEYspends two minutes with Dracula, Night Creature.
Issue 1715 May 13,
2010
Crack-down on hawkers in mall. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Ugly poles go up.
New life for former rodeo rider after chopper crash.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
30 years on ALEC still going strong.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Appeal to Feds on buffel. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Alice to lose 120 beds.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council thumbs down for "secure facility".
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rock is number one.
By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Scary flight. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Town camp artists show in Singapore.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
I love the smell of rubber in the morning.
Alice beanies on Sydney catwalk.
MLA Anderson pays tribute to Ryders, mother and son.
LETTERS: Ryder case – no equality in sentencing.
ADAM'S
APPLE: To everything a season.
Issue 1714 May 6,
2010
Carey Builders shot a blank. By ERWIN
CHLANDA and COMMENT by Prof ROLF GERRITSEN.
NT Budget: $560m in Budget for public works in The Centre.
Second
coming. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Uproar over ‘secure facility’. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Uranium
drilling enters new phase.
By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Working in remote areas: good money is not enough.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Where
Alice plays pokies. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Revised
Araluen plan responds to concerns.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert
dominates the Alice Prize.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
More
than a cinema. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Soundburnt
at Ross River.
By
POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: What consultation?
ADAM'S
APPLE: Back in the best bush town.
Issue 1713 April 29,
2010
High rollers head for Rock. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Qantas hostie falls from plane in grog incident. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Gearing up for camel trade. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Litter litigation. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ryder case concludes. KIERAN FINNANE with several reports.
Give ‘em a hand! By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Artist takes us into the landscape. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bernie Kilgariff: A power of good. By ALEX NELSON.
Beware the uncultured. By
POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Unlicenced hawkers damage Todd Mall trade.
ADAM'S
APPLE: Coming up for air.
Issue 1712 April 22,
2010
Camel trade a goer. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Negligent, not reckless: Ryder trial
coverage by KIERAN FINNANE.
Once we were enemies ... By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Anzac Hill = Eiffel Tower. COMMENT by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Great Central Australian will be laid to rest today.
Consumers are protected by certifiers: department.
A multi-storey carpark for hospital extension?
Naturally by Alex Nelson.
Push-powered pictures. By
POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Imparja, get rid of red box, reinstate local news, increase
Aboriginal programs and employment.
ADAM'S
APPLE: The Lingo Dingo.
Issue 1711 April 15,
2010
Ryder Five: Judge urges progress with Ryder Five charges: Manslaughter
pleas? By
KIERAN FINNANE.
THIS
IS THE REPORT IN OUR NEWSPRINT EDITION WHICH HAD A TUESDAY DEADLINE.
PLEASE SEE OUR HOME PAGE FOR UP-TO-DATE NEWS.
Remembering Stuart. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Ross River doomed? By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Sale of Imparja TV floated at fiery CAAMA meeting. EXCLUSIVE by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Carey, Framptons scandal escalates as govt. agencies are out to a long
lunch. EXCLUSIVE by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
The summer of love in the death throes.
By
POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Tapping out an old story.
Alice’s future leaders.
ADAM'S
APPLE: Have
a go!
LETTERS: Many buffel grasses unsuited for grazing.
Issue 1710 April 8,
2010
Bushfires: we’re better prepared. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Victory for cheap and nasty. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Can NT govt. wash its hands of Carey fiasco? By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Who was an April fool?
Camels: resource or rubbish? By Dr CHARLIE CARTER.
Animal liberationists may target aerial camel culling.
By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
One-on-one rehab for booze addicts. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Creatures come to life with metal magic. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Return of the inland sea.
NATURALLY with ALEX NELSON.
ADAM'S
APPLE: Fixing
the small stuff helps the big.
LETTERS: Parks should be grazed by shepherded herds.
Issue 1709 April 1,
2010
An Easter trip into the land of buffel? By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Carey not the only worry: How does the government protect the consumer?
By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Dudded
home buyers reject Frampton offer and will act as group. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Kimber’s McDouall Stuart: Reading between the lines.
By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
After land
rights and
water rights, air rights are next.
By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Recession sent solar gear costs tumbling.
People power win on Araluen solar.
No flies on me. NATURALLY with ALEX NELSON.
One night the lunar cycle.
By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
The cream rises to the top.
By
POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Alice off roaders open bid for national championship. By our new
motoring writer CHRIS HINSPETER.
LETTERS: Call on Garrett and Rudd to stop the camel cull.
ADAM'S
APPLE: The dishcloth look.
Issue 1708 March 25,
2010
Framptons on the spot as victims of Carey
Builders go on attack.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Japanese class: Pleased to meet you! By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Solar
aircon at Araluen – has horse bolted?
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Turmoil as CAAMA turns 30.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Chance to make fair funding L–A–W.
Darwin art business moves to The Alice. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Up
and down, soft and hard. By
POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Spare
us the artistic bbqs! By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Cowed
public servants. COMMENT by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Liquor
permits revoked.
ADAM'S
APPLE: Hold that front page!
LETTERS:
Is tourism lobby ignoring reality?
Issue 1707 March 18,
2010
Flood mitigation on agenda. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
5 kids and no house. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Offensive drinkers can run but they can’t hide. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Two for Country Liberals in Lingiari vs Snowdon.
A new take on the Namatjira story. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Tourism in Centre steady as she goes. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Nightmare on Renner Street. Naturally
with ALEX NELSON.
Musical Yin Yang is coming. By POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
ADAM'S APPLE: Cricket: it just ain’t American.
LETTERS: Shame job: MLA Giles on attack over public housing.
Issue 1706 March 11,
2010
Grog rehab: kids miss out. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Henderson stifles Anderson. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Liquor litter litigation continues. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Storms skirt Todd catchment. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Desert knowledge is not (always) a dry argument.
A short history of violence.
Jobs draw Sudanese to Alice. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Distance no barrier for language. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Thunder home in triathlon.
Art and craft from women of Titjikala. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Much review about nothing. By POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Getting kids to school is what counts.
LETTERS: King’s Canyon in hot water over service.
ADAM'S APPLE: An adult thing.
Issue 1705 March 4,
2010
Government fights weeds in less than 1% of Emily, Jessie parks. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ryder case: dead man was ‘very likely’ to have had an aneurism. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Alcohol rehabilitation mess: insider joins the debate as govt. stays
mum. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Celebrations of the past are an occasion to look to the future. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Now you see them ... now you don't. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rain stressed ponds. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice Solar City forging ahead. COMMENT by GLENN MARSHALL, Arid Lands
Environment Centre.
The measure of a local’s time. Naturally
with ALEX NELSON.
Alice Prize back in Gallery One. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Production in the desert. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Swimming against the current. By POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Better place for solar unit. LETTER from JOHN CHILDS.
LETTERS: King’s Canyon in hot water over service.
ADAM'S APPLE: The armchair approach.
Government’s first botanist dies. OBITUARY by DES NELSON.
Issue 1704 February 25,
2010
Is this the answer? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Boffins blank on solar costs. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
BBQ for all. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Ex-staffer says DASA needs reform. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Araluen’s solar plant: ‘Why weren’t we told? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Alice Springs a rollercoaster of restaurant supply and demand. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
MacDonnell Shire: more senior staff go. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Jewel in tourism crown a big mess. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Can developer tell future? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Eisteddfod times are a’changing. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Reflections upon a mirror’s image. Naturally
with ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: Was there ‘due process’ in the so called ‘Tui Ford Jnr Saga’?
ADAM'S APPLE: Get real, Country Liberals!
Issue 1703 February 18,
2010
Busting crime: it’s that time of the year again! By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Grog rehab full of flaws, client claims. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Meanwhile DASA keeps mum.
Councils still out in the cold on town planning. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
56 employers south of Gap warrant a satellite suburb. COMMENT by LIZ
MARTIN OAM.
The volunteer spirit. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
No queues for NT cancer patients. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Landscape of Centre through English eyes. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS: Anti-cullling arguments ‘unsubstantiated’.
ADAM'S APPLE: 2010 was meant to be cooler.
Move over missionary, misfit and mercenary. By POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
How to attract tourists with mulga. Naturally
with ALEX NELSON.
Issue 1702 February 11,
2010
Boxed in council supports rezoning south of the Gap. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Ragonesi Road workers’ camp on the fast track. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Housing crisis: on the bottom of the heap. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Housing crisis in the vastness of Alice: What
is the problem? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Green street blocks for $150,000? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Better than committee-driven quick fixes.
By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Solar plant blot on Araluen? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Strong man Frank. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Naturally with ALEX NELSON.
Aboriginal group leaves Alice. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS: Politically correct Dr Stotz.
ADAM'S APPLE: It’s all go until Gerry says no.
Ayers what? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bran Nue Dae: Humour, sensuality,
exuberance. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Dub sauna. By POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Issue 1701 February 4,
2010
Housing woes: will Alice Springs become a welfare town? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Hopeful locals caught in red tape. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Council mum on flood safety. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
MySchool: minimal info on Year 12 results, more useful at lower levels.
By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Pensioners, renal patients still in makeshift camps. Cleaner but for
how long? KIERAN FINNANE encountered hope at Hidden Valley, a humble
request at Hoppy’s, historic change at Ilpiye Ilpiye and generally a
long way to go on the road to normalisation for Alice’s town campers.
NATURALLY. With ALEX NELSON.
Bran Nue Dae: Humour, sensuality,
exuberance. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Freshly spanked. By POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
ADAM'S APPLE: All the things I never want to do.
LETTERS: Whose people?
Issue 1646 December 17,
2009
New claims as cruel camel cull continues. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Chilling DVD re-enactment of alleged fatal assault. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Accused drove at sleeping campers before Ryder death, court was told.
By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Shire win for local government. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Shire: The nitty gritty.
Country Liberals ready: Elferink. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tribal law debate revived. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Forcefields of energy. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Young voices on uranium and other environmental issues. By GEORGIA
WEINERT.
Exodus application. By POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: We shoot camels while fellow humans go hungry.
ADAM'S APPLE: 2010 – change ahead or more of the same?
Issue 1645 December 10,
2009
Camel cull world shame. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rural residents unhappy with mooted urban sprawl south of Heavitree
Gap. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Don’t shoot horses, says traditional owner. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Bullying allegations in Yipirinya School. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Margaret Friedel: Seeing science changes from Alice perspective. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Harsh, but it will not let you go. REVIEW by ERWIN CHLANDA.
An ambient journey into the persistence of solitude. By POP VULTURE
with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
How well can you swim? REVIEW by DICK KIMBER.
Country Liberals are going green.
LETTERS: Bush law based on fear and favour.
ADAM'S APPLE: Wisdom of elders.
Issue 1644 December 3,
2009
Liquor litter levy hits snag. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Govt. Outback Stores compete "unfairly" with station shop. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Should tribal law become part of Australian law? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
No flood mitigation dam for The Alice. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Court clears way for $100m camp housing. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Appeal of Kmart mural decision. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Council by-laws pass final vote. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
They’re back for good. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
ADAM'S APPLE: Do we need celebrities to make us famous?
Issue 1643 November 26,
2009
Land buyers ‘kept in dark’. REPORT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Labor politicians haunted by 2007 booing avoid protesters. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
‘I was really frightened. I should not be at my age.’ By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Parks & Wildlife restructure centralises decision-making. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Damien fronts Gerry’s council. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Araluen changes planned since 2006. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Probe into $1.3m missing from Yuendumu council. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
How can they get us to care about statehood? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Seeking universal visual language. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Resilient Papunya Tula will dazzle. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Off and racing ... at Wallace Rockhole. By CHRISTOPHER RAJA.
LETTERS: Want Alice CBD to look like Darwin’s?
ADAM'S APPLE: Capital for a week.
Issue 1642 November 19,
2009
Flood warning prone to failure. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Shock report: Macklin bails out CAAMA
Seven to two vote for revised by-laws. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Araluen features first survey show of "father of urban Aboriginal art".
Friday reel to reel. By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Humane harvest instead of camel holocaust.
ADAM'S APPLE: Silly season burnout.
Issue 1641 November 12,
2009
Imparja not required to provide material of local content or
significance. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mt Johns buyers afraid of missing out pay top dollar. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘Royalties for Regions’ could bust Berrimah Line spending. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Ryan says we need loyalties to regions.
Giles – Regions losing out to Darwin’s Northern Suburbs.
Lifeline for Ayers Rock college. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Parks director pushed aside? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Paul Quinlivan – August 7, 1959 to October 10, 2009: He was a gentle
man who had an iron will.
LETTERS: Battle over Rainbow Valley goes on.
Wot u wanna c? By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
ADAM'S APPLE: Trying to give you more whingeing room.
Issue 1640 November 5,
2009
Wall of reports to keep out camels? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bush to banquet: seasons, not management, drive booms and bust. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pubs unite to bar troublemakers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Boss defends woman: why the bashing charges were dropped.
A victory for beauty – but one last hurdle. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aboriginal dollar more than a third of Centre’s economy. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Basic comfort, security plus three meals a day. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Lessons for Alice found in Singapore. By DOMENICO PECORARI.
Howling monsters of metal. GIG REVIEW by BEN EVERETT.
Tossing the fish to the clapping seals. By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Sightlines: What is the vision of the whole?
ADAM'S APPLE: Kick and punch show.
Issue 1639 October 29,
2009
Politics, a Q100 and you. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council supports five storey complex. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council to forge U-mine views. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Govt offices musical chairs.
Slowly moving to growth towns. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Council staffer mourned.
Value adding to Araluen. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Wrongly accused. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cheap, clean and safe but never enough to go round. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Artists take play in different directions. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Will they go or stay? By BEATRICE JEAVONS.
Mutant juice. By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
ADAM'S APPLE: Selling Alice.
LETTERS: Why cloudy, cold Germany has left us behind with solar power.
Issue 1638 October 22,
2009
Highrise debate cranks up. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Can we afford to say no? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Good-bye sunrise. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Big plans for baby ‘roos. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shire shirks questions.
New chief sought for Territory collections. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM'S APPLE: Saturday.
LETTERS: Araluen shake-up needed.
Issue 1637 October 15,
2009
Heading for explosion point? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘Revamping’ development.
Looking for leaders. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Phil to put Alice on the couch. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Darwin to answer all Alice calls to police. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sacred sites fees.
Arrenrnte Council missed out on drive-in.
Metalworkers forge ahead. By KIERAN FINNANE.
It’s a tribal thing. By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Little things of everyday life. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM'S APPLE: A difference between spin and makeup?
LETTERS: The saga of dead trees: public safety concerns ring hollow.
Issue 1636 October 8,
2009
Big move for more housing. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lounge chair in the breeze. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Concrete blocks, Colorbond for Kmart mural? By KIERAN FINNANE.
National parks management will be an ‘equitable partnership’ with TOs.
Alcohol bans in Macklin’s court, says Hampton. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
West Macs comments invited.
Serious allegations against shire. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Licensees move to reduce trouble on their premises.
More cans from camps.
WHOW, what a great project.
Issues clouded in Araluen debate. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alcohol in Alice three years after ‘turning down the tap’.
COMMENT by JOHN BOFFA, Peoples Alcohol Action Coalition.
LETTERS: Row over poisoned sacred trees continues.
ADAM'S APPLE: Working to make dreams come true.
Issue 1635 October 1,
2009
NT Govt is responsible for Parks grog ban: Anderson. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Poisoned sacred trees to remain. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Let’s do better! COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
NT’s only ballet company wants more govt support. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Part Two of our coverage of the company’s 25 years.
Pendulum swinging back on public middle schools. By ALEX NELSON.
Controversy over the fate of Gallery Three. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Visitors from Siberia. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Road trip totems. By KIERAN FINNANE.
September surgery. By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Junkets for ratepayer benefit?
ADAM'S APPLE: I’ll never forget my backyard.
Mighty run for Mini.
Issue 1634 September 24,
2009
No business like show business. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
What a huge chance we have! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Getting on the front foot with environmental probes: All brain and no
brawn. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Gerry Wood’s agenda on the EPA.
Canberra’s funding fantasies collide with the brutal reality in the
camps. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
One woman’s drive to foster classical ballet in The Centre. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Harnessing the food gifts and flavours of the bush. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Our ‘friendly’ town is not so if you are black.
ADAM'S APPLE: The ages of man.
Making a meal of the festival. By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Issue 1633 September 17,
2009
$10m initiative to keep money here. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Last ditch effort to save Anzac Hill school. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
The Alice is a jobs Mecca. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Fest on Cloud 9. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
More glass, please: Mayor.
ADAM'S APPLE: The sins of bad jokes.
LETTERS: The courage to speak out.
ADAM'S APPLE: The sins of bad jokes.
Bass so thick it makes your clothes flutter. By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Issue 1632 September 10,
2009
Shire Councillor in bashing allegations. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hospital stonewalls questions on ENT wait list, emergency theatre. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Good Morning, Little Sisters. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brilliant Desert Mob: Their own view. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert vigour.
The way the proposed Indigenous representative body would work.
All the old Alice News editions are now digitised at the library.
Call for power, water to help TiTree grow.
Sami Cha & Billygoat Superstars are playing music with a mission.
LETTERS: Long half-life of Murray’s grandiose nuclear visions.
ADAM'S APPLE: Always the groomsman.
Issue 1631 September 3,
2009
Go Gerry! says Alice. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Major exploration deal. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
"Death by consultation." By
KIERAN FINNANE.
UN Rapporteur dumps on Oz, Alice. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Kmart wall D-day near.
Bushfoods: weeds on the menu. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice at its joyous best. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Drought proofing with camels.
ADAM'S APPLE: Tongue-tied.
Issue 1630 August 27,
2009
Car parks spoil Alice, says report commissioned by the NT Government. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Accolades for Anderson over campaign on housing in bush. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
In the days before ‘them and us’. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Menzies defends Alice Springs alcohol report.
Eyes on Araluen.
Variety Bash was hot. Madame Buttlerfly not. By POP VULTURE with
CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: UN fact finding just a farce.
ADAM'S APPLE: Battling the chronic wakefulness syndrome.
Issue 1629 August 20,
2009
Sacred sites authority: huge fees for permits to remove dangerous
trees. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Voyages sells King’s Canyon, Alice resorts. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
I did not damage Rainbow Valley, says Noel Fullerton. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Chopper pilot returns to charge over Kings Creek fire death.
Government deal: Golden opportunity gone west. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The Wood agenda: Extracts from Independent Member Gerry Wood’s speech
in Parliament last Friday.
Heated meeting fails to resolve council by-laws. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Clark says sorry.
Abandoned blankets.
Don’t like a by-law? Suggest your own!
Reviewers hammer grog report for NT Government. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Blank walls, blank minds. By POP VULTURE with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Fest just keeps on growing. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Will the UN hear about the human right of Aboriginal women to
live free of violence?
ADAM'S APPLE: Thumbs up for our own Big Things!
Issue 1628 August 13,
2009
Caution as change looms. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Victim’s family call for calm in lead-up to trial. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Detail? What detail? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Anonymous slug fest is level of public debate in Darwin. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Land council and oil company lock horns. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘Hardening’ Rainbow Valley. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Local plays short and sweet. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The harder they try the behinder they get. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Housing go-slow.
ADAM'S APPLE: More cowboy hats than in a Slim Dusty convention.
LETTERS: Could the Feds do any worse?
Issue 1627 August 6,
2009
KIERAN FINNANE covers the furore over
town council by-laws:
Clark on her own.
Clark: I’m just having my say.
Damage can’t be estimated.
Time for Aborigines to speak out: Taylor.
By-laws: the vitriol is in the mail.
85 houses for camps, just 8% for admin.
Tiny bodies in morgue for up to 18 months.
A mob with more than a bit of ‘try’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Beauty & song. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Begging with 1000s in the bank.
ADAM'S APPLE: I’d beg you to read this but I can’t afford
the fine.
Soundcheck at the Cat’s Meow cabaret. By POP VULTURE with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Issue 1626 July 30,
2009
Alice: What recession? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
More money from the sun: new solar energy projects big boon for The
Centre’s economy.
Council may be outside law. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rangers will be properly trained.
Grog: we must take the hard decisions. By RUSSELL GOLDFLAM.
A station for each child: Foundation of a dynasty. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice man national Apexian of the year,
New territory & new materials to watch at Watch This Space. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Tough by-laws must go hand in hand with moves of inclusion.
ADAM'S APPLE: Going to the gym to sharpen women’s skills in man’s body.
Borat was 2006: By POP VULTURE with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Issue 1625 July 23,
2009
Littering, swearing, camping, begging: Alice fights back. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Centrecorp: Did CLC breach land rights act? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Police reopens school sex case after victim’s parents speak out. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Sitzler Bros get $14.2m pool job.
Plan for reinstatement of K-Mart wall lacks detail. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Cash for container takes off with bang.
The professor & the boomerang. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Quest for truth in northern travels. REVIEW by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Let termites do your gardening. By ALEX NELSON.
ADAM'S APPLE: Dyslexia through the effluxion of time.
LETTERS: Climbing Rock is "a privilege, not a right".
Issue 1624 July 16,
2009
Right to climb Uluru may go. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Spin vs truth.
NT media producers win some, lose some. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Liquor litter charge legally invalid, says Hotels Association. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
1000 households now with Alice Solar City.
Enriching Maths makes learning fun. By JUSTIN ZAMMIT.
It’s better than fishing. By KIERAN FINNANE.
NAIDOC caterpillar dreaming.
Public art soon for Civic Centre corner. By KIERAN FINNANE.
New venue relieves itch. POP VULTURE.
ADAM'S APPLE: Wacko over Jacko: overhyped and unproductive.
LETTERS: Grog-fuelled emergency threatens Alice Springs.
Issue 1623 July 9,
2009
Hand wringing over black jobs lack as Centrelink is sitting on its
hands. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Footy team did not take swine flu to the desert. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Money missing: home is running on plan B. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM'S APPLE: Dagwood Dog stall instills shame and delight at The Show.
The Hatzimihails in The Centre are Aussies with Greek customs "built
in". Series by KIERAN FINNANE.
Song and image hand in hand.
Anthology’s wide view of our interesting times. REVIEW by RUSSELL
GOLDFLAM.
Council to tackle plastics recycling.
70th Anniversary of Connellan Airways.
Parking inspector to get counselling. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
LETTERS: No houses yet under emergency scheme.
Issue 1622 July 2,
2009
School sex offender got away with it, say victim’s parents. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Vatskalis dropped bundle on swine flu: Giles. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Crushed glass in – not on – the footpaths. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council’s energy savings get gong.
Bushlight jobs safe – for now. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Aboriginal doctor finds her work rewarding. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Fun & freedom of the Show life. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aboriginal art for World Expo 2010.
An orgy of beanies. By POP VULTURE with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
ADAM'S APPLE: Ponderings from the thunder-box.
LETTERS: Where are the Intervention's fruit and veg and real jobs?
Issue 1621 June 25,
2009
Alice school sex probe. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aiming for more members. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Estimates hearings: Unpaid fines & overflowing prisons.
Araluen tourism booms. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Greek heritage alive in Centre. SERIES by KIERAN FINNANE.
Touch of light. KIERAN FINNANE reviews.
Post 9/11 terror. By POP VULTURE with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
Success against the odds. SERIES by ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: Alice needs to outshine negative impressions.
ADAM'S APPLE: Tragedy & triumph.
Issue 1620 June 18,
2009
National parks handover spin: town excluded from ceremony. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Scrymgour ‘was in the loop’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Face lift for council dunnies.
Wearing a veil does not stop her loving the beach & rugby league.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Looks like new.
We need better than almost brilliant. By POP VULTURE with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Ugly powerlines.
ADAM'S APPLE: Alice A woman of substance.
Issue 1619 June 11,
2009
And the winner is ... Alice Springs! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Turbulent time for Macklin. COMPILED by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Our first Greek family arrived 50 years ago. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Move to the Centre had big rewards.
Town Council adopts new approach to recycling operation. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Library venue a coup for Nu art. By POP VULTURE.
LETTERS: What a welcome to Alice for Ghan passengers.
ADAM'S APPLE: One visitor we didn’t want.
Issue 1618 June 4,
2009
Shire revolt. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Papunya to New York: Have painting, will travel. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Finke: New rocket for Dave Fellows & Andrew Kittle. Grabham
switches to KTM. REPORTS edited by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bush ready for change: Beadman. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Going the extra mile. By ALEX NELSON.
Warren H: His Inspiration is best in country. By POP VULTURE.
Department investigates apparent irregularities in home construction.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Too hard for whom?
ADAM'S APPLE: Battle horror ... for a clown.
Issue 1617 May 28,
2009
Big
plans for drive-in site. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Boy from The Gap to make a difference. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Community spirit in spades. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert Knowledge in bunker: What do we get for $93m? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hang on, it’s not all bad!
Misleading or worse? Surely not, madam!
Some winners, some losers in student income support.
Kmart wall to be restored. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Community spirit in spades. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Yuendumu art a hit in New Delhi. By NEELIMA CHOAHAN.
Nine more sleeps – Finke organisers competitors & devotees count
down. By LINDSAY WRIGHT.
Tattersall’s Finke: A boom, not bust! By LINDSAY WRIGHT.
Pete’s last ride. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
POP VULTRE: Playing to the largest audience in town.
Digging deeper. By ALEX NELSON.
ADAM'S APPLE: Numbers stacked against us? Get over it.
Town camps – the time to act is now! COMMENT by MARK LOCKYER.
LETTERS: Where are Tangentyere supporters?
Issue 1616 May 21,
2009
New era
looms in bush. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Land council’s new hurdle. ANALYSIS by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Remission for footy brawlers. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Main street art: How the galleries survive the recession. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Buzz, not bucks: The Finke ... 16 days to go. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ADAM'S APPLE: Weighing up freedom versus distance.
LETTERS: Research leads to investment, jobs.
Issue 1615 May 14,
2009
Row over
subdivision. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sport carnival is more important than school. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sharp rise of river dwellers spoken to.
Are we getting public dunnies right? By KIERAN FINNANE.
CDU, Batchelor may collaborate.
Gardening in the Centre beyond trial and error – it’s the McEllister
legacy. By ALEX NELSON.
Happy birthday to a giant of our road transport industry.
CBD dollar dribble.
Lost traditions, lost possibilities. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
POP VULTRE: Caution: artwork ahead.
LETTERS: "No surprise Desert Knowledge CRC bombed out."
ADAM'S APPLE: Optimistic Alice.
Issue 1614 May 7,
2009
Desert
Knowledge shock. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Aboriginal money for administration or development? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Housing prices stay high but who is buying? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Public housing vandalised as private rents skyrocket. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lawrie touts record $1.3b investment. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Budget ‘risky’. COMMENT by Prof ROLF GERRITSEN.
Landowners seek legal advice on litter charge. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Territory’s 2030 wish list a long way from strategy. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Vote probe. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dreaming their own dreams. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: "Do something or you’ll lose your tourism industry."
ADAM'S APPLE: Squinting men & Adam’s apples.
Issue 1613 April 30,
2009
$60,000
liquor litter charge. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Is it a lesson in delaying container deposit laws?
Why some will never get elected. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shire CEO pulls pin. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Slump slows down re-think of how to better run Centre. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Could town camps leases be resumed?
Bureaucrats spend $2.3m to oversee $5.7m in programs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Feral dogs maul stud calf in the town area.
Writers to cook up word storm.
Musical overload in the Wide Open Spaces. By POP VULTURE.
Charming tree hugger champions environment. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
LETTERS: Tourist says town is filthy.
ADAM'S APPLE: Don’t give hate a chance.
Issue 1612 April 23,
2009
Council’s
grog rubbish charge may be heading for the courts. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bush housing slow.
Recession: Op shop changes in ‘landscape of need’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shires the size of some European countries: Runs on the board with $60m
total budgets. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Locals turn up in droves for deeply moving film. Review by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Twisting, moshing and writhing. By Pop Vulture.
Footy trip to Alice was best weekend of their lives.
Get out your art diaries!
LETTERS: Filth in public places: Is this place for real?
ADAM'S APPLE: What kind of men do Alice women want?
Issue 1611 April 16,
2009
Alderman
and developer says: Native title land deal not fair. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
A hidden treasure for Heritage Week. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pre-school garden a toilet, dump. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
New push for mountain bike trail. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Thoughts from the round table. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
No recession in Aboriginal art. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Heritage Week: The present catches up with the past.
High achiever turns 70.
Nuclear powered art.
LETTERS: Cameco water pollution in USA: judges yet to rule on
contentions.
Issue 1610 April 9,
2009
Night of
crime. By ERWIN CHLANDA and BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Sacred trees must go, says alderman. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Centrecorp shares: Did land council mislead Parliament? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Embattled IAD under microscope – again. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Burping beasts new task for innovative cattlemen. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Breeding beef clean and green. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
A remote community where all adults work & kids go to school. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Basketball bashing must stop. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Pop Vulture: Homegrown harmonies.
LETTERS: Whose life is a misery?
ADAM'S APPLE: To the moon, Alice Springs.
Issue 1609 April 2,
2009
Uranium
buck passing. By KIERAN FINNANE and BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Council booze levy anger. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rawnsley new Deputy Mayor. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice tipping point. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Plenty more mining in Central Australia. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Outback Way: NT dragging chain.
Indigenous employment in Canada, Central Australia: A shocking
comparison. By ERWIN
CHLANDA and BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
RedHOT merges with Alice Festival.
Pop Vulture: Close encounter of the cool kind.
LETTERS: Educators get your act together!
ADAM'S APPLE: Geek meets cool.
Issue 1608 March 26,
2009
Town
plan on the never never. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice on uranium mine: ‘56 to 44 in favour’. By
KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN
CHLANDA.
IAD row: don’t mess with the ladies! By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
CDU: No more lagging behind. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Tragedy to triumph. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Passion, place and history in ambitious debut novel. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
I’ll sleep on the couch. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Murray bowing out.
LETTERS: Liquor litter move: where is the ‘fair factor’?
ADAM'S APPLE: I'm going R rated.
Pop Vulture: That central feeling.
Issue 1607 March 19,
2009
Centrecorp
lid is off. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Council turns one, tackles big issues: law & order, litter. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Getting to know them.
New lease of life for Pitchi Richi.
Sacred Sites block river safety burns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Final tests for sewage reuse. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
$1 million Emily set to be a hit for Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pop Vulture: Deadly duel of the bellies.
Bald and beautiful for a good cause. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
ADAM'S APPLE: Should we be worried?
LETTERS: Grog wasted in more ways than one.
Issue 1606 March 12,
2009
Not
interested in Centrecorp, royalties on track – Snowdon. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Camels: Waste or sell them? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Crusher made in Alice. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Mining: good news and bad. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Who will care for aging population? By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Mall pokies: What a coincidence!
CCTV monitoring may go to Darwin.
They told me: Go take a flying leap! By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Leaked report canes IAD.
Divine geometry links us to the earth.
Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY: A blissful hand grenade of a film
raises bar for comic adaptations.
Young artists in fine form. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Under attack from midget camels?
ADAM'S APPLE: The nan in my life.
Issue 1605 March 5,
2009
Where
are the mining millions? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Anger over mall pokies. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Karl Hampton: Caution and focus. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Huts for the West MacDonnells? By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Food stalls under pressure once again. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Araluen kicks off 25th year. REPORTS by KIERAN FINNANE.
After diagnosis and cure, Callum has energy to burn again.
LETTERS: Mark Lockyer is a community hero.
ADAM'S APPLE: Breaking the rules.
Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY: Third time mucky.
Issue 1604 February 26,
2009
The
latest crime tinkering. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
At 16 you become a drunk. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Buyers on the hunt for scarce cheaper houses. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Interstate visitors, Chinese may be the answer for tourism drop. By
BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
We’ll be a black town in 20 years. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Will the kids see the error of their ways? By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Ovation for heartfelt film.
Crowne Plaza solar plant: What about the money? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Sharp eye on what’s on in Todd Mall.
LETTERS: Alice just another dysfunctional community?
ADAM'S APPLE: A big day, oh well, fairly big.
Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY: Tsunami of pretentious political
correctness?
Issue 1603 February 19,
2009
Grass,
not trees main fire worry. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
$30m power station plan for Pine Gap. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Massive coal deposit claim in Simpson Desert.
Claims about Kittle earnings ahead of Centrecorp hearing. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Suspend funding for IAD, group demands.
Why are some missing the bus? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Landscape of neglect. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Looking on the sunny side. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Ayers Rock resort is still up for grabs. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Tangentyere answers questions on Barb Shaw’s money raising. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
See how your garden grows. By guest writer JIMMY COCKING.
Work is not out of reach. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
ADAM'S APPLE: A sound I’ll never forget.
Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY: Darling beats of May.
LETTERS: Grog down the drain is a waste.
Issue 1602 February 12,
2009
Youth
Centre may be heading for a facelift. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Bloody good drinkers get responsible. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Raided booze goes down the drain.
Courts are not soft, says Law Society. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Errors in the February 5, 2009 edition.
Train bypass, workers’ flats and town planning are in party’s sights.
By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Same songsheet on railway route. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Golf Club improves swing. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Fight for IAD still in full swing. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Council’s bid for infrastructure handout: roads, mall & dunnies.
Kmart wall brawl is not yet finished. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Art lovers escape the gloomy times. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM'S APPLE: Wrinkled stars: get off the stage!
LETTERS: Todd bed should be dredged regularly.
Issue 1601 February 5,
2009
Alice
and the recession. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourism in trouble? By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Concerns over sacred Todd trees after ‘silt’ is removed. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Super season. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The Alice goes all out to help sick boy and family. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Centrecorp probe to continue. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Local builders in the race. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tiger not yet ‘locked in’. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Home. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dam’s the dirty word. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Year 12 averages down in 2008 though Alice student topped NT. By
BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Reel to reel relief from a hot and dull summer. Pop Vulture with
CAMERON BUCKLEY.
ADAM'S APPLE: 2009 doom & gloom? Not in upbeat Alice!
LETTERS: Were fake rocks damaged by vandals?
Oline edition Dec 12,
2008 to Feb 4, 2009
Online-only
reports during the summer recess of the print editions.
Issue 1545 December 11,
2008.
OK for
$50m camps deal. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Freight trains should by-pass town: council. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Good-by disadvantage, hello opportunity. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Keep Kmart bricks: council. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Law & order coalition soon. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Experiment gone wrong. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
What it’ll be like for Alice in the hot seat. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Recession stealing our Christmas joy? Never! By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Ted wants rethink for First Australians. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Weapon of mass persuasion. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Alice duped over Kmart wall.
ADAM'S APPLE: Australia is not a great date movie.
Issue 1544 December 4,
2008.
Landrush?
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
On the front foot with law & order. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
The Centre’s beautiful sandstone ... look again. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
A town with an uncertain future. By Heritage Architect DOMENICO
PECORARI.
Kmart mural: no guarantees. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
When art becomes part of every day.
Accused murderer MC Willshire: how would you have judged him? Part
3 of an interview with historian DICK KIMBER.
Book sings about country. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Bush cures. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Recalling the days at the old Mission Block. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
An expert’s take on uranium worries. By Dr D. C. “Bear” McPhail, of the
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
LETTERS: Today's truants are tomorrow's prisoners.
Issue 1543 November 27,
2008.
Another
icon going. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Parental responsibility in NT: big stick too small. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
‘Dam fillers’ at Undoolya. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Carbon could make the Centre dirt rich. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Black housing back to drawing board. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Gallery in the Mall opens with panache.
The notorious MC Willshire: colleague doubted his
sanity. Part 2 of an interview with historian DICK KIMBER about Mounted
Constable Willshire, accused but acquitted of murder.
2008: a triumphant year for Papunya Tula artists.
Uranium expert advises Alice News readers, writers.
LETTERS: Caldicott independent? Pull the other one ... and: Kids can’t
be forced to go to school, says department
ADAM CONNELLY: I'm a nerd screaming to be set free
Issue 1542 November 20,
2008.
Mining:
if law gets in the way, change it. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Will McArthur mine case set the uranium agenda? By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
How ‘tiny’ can become big in the nuclear heat.
Ballooning made in Alice takes China by storm. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘I don’t want to be bad. I just get bored.’ By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Nuke dump: for, against. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Change of guard at tourism lobby. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Not bad for a little place like this. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Matriarch of the Lines and Colson families passes on.
Was Willshire a murderer? By DICK KIMBER.
Summer starts with hope. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS: Centre can be the new Saudi Arabia of renewable energy.
ADAM CONNELLY: Bring on the rain!
Issue 1541 November 13,
2008.
Anderson
wants all Centre MLAs to act together on anti-social behaviour. By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Uranium miner Cameco gets it wrong.
Storm fury.
How to make remote Oz tick. KIERAN
FINNANE reports from the Desert Knowledge symposium.
Outback governance: Getting the show on the road.
One community that gets it right.
Getting away from the crunch. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Stole from employer.
When raging was all the go. By DICK KIMBER.
Growth in Centre as Great Depression ravages the world. By ALEX NELSON.
Mitchell grass tunes. By RUSSELL GUY.
ADAM CONNELLY: Short back and sides.
LETTERS: Uranium, shire polls.
Issue 1540 November 6,
2008.
We need
workers’ hostel, says new Chamber boss. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
‘Transparent’ Centrecorp still stumm. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Wattle seed from Oz could eliminate famine in Africa. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Slow road to progress. By ALEX NELSON.
Govt. revolution in bush. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
CCTV blind to crime. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Melanka party is over ... but what a party it was! By DICK KIMBER.
Changes afoot for Araluen. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Hit show has some unasked questions. REVIEW by KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS: Uranium miner Cameco answers allegations.
ADAM CONNELLY: Acts of selfless love live on.
Wicked weekend warriors: Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY takes a look
at life in Alice outside the boa constrictor confines of the workplace.
Issue 1539 October 30,
2008.
Senate
grills Centrecorp boss. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
When recession came to Alice. By ALEX NELSON.
Water and dust at Angela Pamela uranium prospect: ‘First we need the
proposal to get the facts’. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Keep your shirt on! By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Subsidies for new homes before land release once again cart before the
horse, say Alice aldermen. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
They made me wash the dishes ... naked. By BEVERLEY JOHNSON.
Ear to the ground. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY, moving like an
impossible caterpillar, tunes in to the abundance of sound that is
Central Australia.
LETTERS: Shire poll – pastoralists had ‘no voice, no choice’.
ADAM CONNELLY: Gimme industrial strength over ‘natural’ any day!
Issue 1538 October 23,
2008.
Shire
poll fiasco. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Will Minister get the sack?
Centre’s tourist industry rolling with the punches. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourism has come back from shocks. Will it again? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Tourism NT & Central Australia out to lunch?
Mall market muddle. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Aboriginal art triples. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Selling out or evolving? Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY reviews the
Kings of Leon’s most recent album.
Year 12 – the final countdown. By EMILY RYAN.
LETTERS: Council misses mark with its graffiti plan.
ADAM CONNELLY: King of the hill goes for a spell.
Issue 1537 October 16,
2008.
And now,
the new state of Remote Australia? By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Some thoughts on fixing "the failed state of remote Australia".
Progress on subdivisions. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
How will economy weather the storm? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Intervention should continue with willing participation: review board.
By KIERAN
FINNANE.
CCTV fails to record broken Mall window.
After two decades of Masters they’re one big happy family. By BEVERLEY
JOHNSON.
LETTERS: No ease to housing and land shortage.
A speck of perspective on a broad horizon. By ALEX NELSON.
In your face. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hopeful dawn between first and newcomer Australians. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Alice will quieten down soon enough.
POP VULTURE
CAMERON BUCKLEY: Take it or leave it?
Issue 1536 October 9,
2008.
U-mine
splits Alice Labor. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Raging Rita – art can turn around decline in the bush. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
"We need tourism rooms and cheap land for housing." By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
CCTV working? Here’s another $1m, just in case. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Best part of Old Ghan track cut by uranium mine lease. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Taking chances for silliness and survival. By ALEX NELSON.
Bass a disappointment. By DARCY DAVIS.
Being in another place. By KIERAN FINNANE.
POP VULTURE
CAMERON BUCKLEY: Everything borrowed.
Massive losses of verge trees.
Desert Mob record sales.
LETTERS: Reptile killing story goes around the world.
ADAM CONNELLY: Intervention one day, uranium the next:
all in a protestor’s week.
Issue 1535 October 2,
2008.
More
development strife. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Planning, get real: Ald Samih Habib. By KIERAN FINNANE and ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Outback Way: small fish in big Aussie road pond. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert Mob: The art goes on. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Storm lessons:
What trees should we grow? By ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: Is
Senator Scullion saying he didn’t say what he was saying?
ADAM CONNELLY:
Knowledge mobs need to start new industries.
POP VULTURE:
CAMERON BUCKLEY reviews a new release AC/DC DVD, No
Bull.
Issue 1534 September 25,
2008.
Wanna
have fun? Make your own! By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Housing land management: should it be the next job for the Feds? By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mayor's openness short-lived?
Lean living for single pensioners in Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Recipes from old Europe get bushfood makeovers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘New settlers’ in paper chains and flesh. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Journey to the limits of endurance. By R. G. (Dick) KIMBER. Part 3.
A Molotov cocktail of musical genres. POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Festivals to solve climate change?
SPECULATION by DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Intervention: stemming the carnage in the bush.
ADAM CONNELLY: What do we believe in, what do we know?
Issue 1533 September 18,
2008.
Uphill
land battle. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council wants to head off a Thirsty Thursday for Alice. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Let communities decide on permits: Call by alderman. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Centrecorp: moment of truth. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hospital the last resort for NT’s ‘skinny kids’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The town was rocking! By DARCY DAVIS.
Faces and stories from four corners of the globe. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Now that’s a party!
LETTERS: Developing the Kurrajong area would make Alice Springs a true
adventure destination.
ADAM CONNELLY: The Territory where simple means stupid.
Journey to the limits of endurance. By R. G. (Dick) KIMBER. Part 2.
Issue 1532 September 11,
2008.
KIERAN FINNANE
reports on new strategies for indigenous employment.
Black jobs breakthrough?
Some Alice job seekers live in creeks.
"Willing to get out there and give it a go.”
Police seize huge grog running hauls. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTER: National Indigenous TV replies to allegations by Neville
Perkins.
Aurora may buy into a ‘broken up’ Ayers Rock Resort. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Adam Giles: Maiden speech vision.
Fuel prices won't kill car rally sport, but red tape may. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Clare Martin will head organisation that damned her government. COMMENT
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Journey to the limits of endurance. By R. G. (Dick) KIMBER.
LETTERS: Intervention: is it time for an anti anti rally?
ADAM CONNELLY: Grand final headaches or not: Alice and sport go hand in
hand.
Issue 1531 September 4,
2008.
Alice Springs is perfect for cycle tourism worth millions in other
places. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Garrett to keep eye on NITV allegations. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
By-laws are needed to control pit bull terriers, says Ald Stewart. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Footy brawl ‘reasons for escalation’ down to Cole.
Rust & spinifex have never looked so sexy. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Bushfoods ready for market but is market ready for bushfoods? By
KIERAN
FINNANE.
Anti-nukes high and dry. By DARCY DAVIS.
Salvos have few options for homeless.
By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Our man in tie at Youth Down UNYA. By DARCY DAVIS.
Desert Knowledge hosts leading edge solar trial.
Joyriders at The Rock.
Gravity survey: What is underneath?
LETTERS: OK, Paul now loves us, but how much?
ADAM CONNELLY: Getting ready to blossom.
Issue 1530 August 28,
2008.
Call for probe into Abor. TV firm. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘Listening’ Chief Minister brings cash for surveillance. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Changing the shape of the town. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Sleepover that's not a yawn.
Remembering a guy most of us never knew. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Twins series made in Alice goes to air. Review
by KIERAN FINNANE.
These girls are ‘buffled’. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: When is news not fit to be told?
ADAM CONNELLY: OiOiOis have had their day.
Issue 1529 August 21,
2008.
Alice a fly-in, fly-out town? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Cole’s victim defenceless. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Intervention ‘holocaust’
Split up Ayers Rock Resort: tourism lobby. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Clash over $16m pool complex: Project manager will sue council over
sacking. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘Longest shortcut’ becomes task for local government.
Throwing a spear meets kicking a ball. By DICK KIMBER.
Wearable art fresh Out Of Africa.
The town Alice became: KIERAN FINNANE reviews Sally Mumford's
exhibition.
Old sins cast long shadows. By CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Councils want a shortcut to dollars from Canberra.
ADAM CONNELLY: We armchair sports lovers.
Issue 1528 August 14,
2008.
Labor’s loss more then Libs’ gain, except in Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Wages up 4%, rents 20%. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Giles a "hands on pollie". By ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Alice out in front!
COMMENT: Work best cure for violence.
Leaving town: The brain drain we can ill afford. By LAURA PACKHAM.
Songs of love and struggle launched Alice Desert fest.
Don’t dip your pen into company ink. By CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Crossing the Simpson from east to west: 24 days of ‘absolute madness’.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Kill the speed limit!
ADAM CONNELLY: The colic of social fevers.
Issue 1527 August 7, 2008.
Braitling a done deal? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ELECTION
REPORTS BY KIERAN FINNANE:
Governing half the NT.
Will Alice be home for Opposition?
Is uranium an article of faith or open to debate?
Urban migration – fuzzy picture.
Don’t mention the handover!
Taking the climate change bull by the horns in Alice. By JIMMY COCKING,
Arid Lands Environment Centre.
Harmony theme for Alice festival.
A nice cross-generational property? By CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Election: Seniors, victims, ratepayers speak out.
ADAM CONNELLY: Let me just be the devil’s advocate.
Issue 1526 July 31, 2008.
It’s the economy, stupid! By KIERAN FINNANE.
Nice try by government. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ELECTION ROUNDUP by KIERAN FINNANE:
Spending the Feds’ billions.
ALP, Libs: same-same on uranium.
Alice’s favourite hobby: beating the
police drum.
Water for uranium exploration: not much more than an Olympic pool, says
company. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Uranium elephant in the room for independent.
A fair way to go. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
New band Miazma’s original deathly metal. By DARCY DAVIS.
POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Uranium elephant in the room for independent.
On a kung fu joruney down the slik road. Pop Vulture with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
ADAM CONNELLY: When early rising is a downer.
Issue 1525 July 24, 2008.
Poll Top heavy. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Grog ban in parks. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lively battle for Braitling. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Housing fiasco’s front line. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Election gives grants fiddle gets a new lease of life. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Age no barrier for adventure.
50% hike in dump charge will ‘kill us’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Territory’s greenest teacher at Braitling.
Guides’ fun: flying pants up a flagpole. By LAURA PACKHAM.
What’s this art thing about anyway?
Story blasted into the bloodstream: Heath Ledger pounds out last role.
POP VULTURE with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Sydney needs intervention, not Alice.
ADAM CONNELLY: I’m not qualified for the 21st century
Issue 1524 July 17, 2008.
Let’s give Alice teeth: Centre party mooted. By KIERAN FINNANE.
NT Govt. shrugs off town council uranium concerns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
New journey down the well worn path of Aboriginal advancement. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Macklin makes wrong start in camps, say native title holders. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
More than grace and beauty. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pilgrims heading out from Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Around the traps: First crossing of Oz by car.
LETTERS: Million dollar a year dentists?
ADAM CONNELLY: iPhone? iDon’t.
Penis jokes and vile product placement: The Love Guru. Pop Vulture with
CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Issue 1523 July 10, 2008.
‘He saved me from being raped, maybe murdered’ ... but he’s going to be
charged. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The CLP has friends in Canberra, well, maybe. By ERWINCHLANDA.
Healing centre bungle. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Closing the gap? Dream on. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Moving from bush to town: they’re doing it everywhere. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Workforce stretched to the limit. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council slips up on non-slip tiles.
Burns calls for Federal scheme to make doctors work in bush. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Council seeks town camps talks. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ryan pushes black jobs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Scrymgour favours getting tough with people not accepting work. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Not rose-coloured glasses: blindness!
Back yard a paradise.
ADAM CONNELLY: I’m not a drunk.
Not left to fate. Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Issue 1522 July 3, 2008.
Scullion ‘stuffed up’: Mills canes Senator over national parks
give-away. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Parks give-away will hurt the very
people it is meant to help.
Law into his own hands?
New burbs at airport? Huge development costs differences: will they
determine where Alice grows? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ENVIRONMENT: Glimpse of Alice in 2030. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ENVIRONMENT: Solar City alone won’t get Town Council to 2010 greenhouse
emissions reduction target. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ENVIRONMENT: Uranium, Timor gas ‘our hope’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘The nuclear non-solution’.
Where have all the young ones gone? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Licence to buy gun not good enough to buy grog.
Go-ahead for Civic Centre art.
ADAM CONNELLY: ET – go home!
Issue 1521 June 26, 2008.
CLP loses our parks. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: The parks fiasco. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘No more climbing Uluru’: Parks as pawns for activists? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
We want to run our own show, says Amoonguna. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shortage of doctors leads to suspension of medical visits to bush.
Funding only ‘viable’ towns not a race issue. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Community stores give IM a good report card. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Centre wisdom for Paris. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Poo pipe: slow learners.
Giles in Braitling, Carney, Conlan stay, bush open. By KIERAN FINNANE.
We want to run our own show, says Amoonguna. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ted Egan getting ready to stay. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Attacks on women.
Batchelor: Few in top courses.
One finds one’s destiny on the road one takes to avoid it. Pop Vulture
with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
Weird and wonderful all-nighter. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Rampaging teenagers caught on camera.
ADAM CONNELLY: Millions for art.
Issue 1520 June 19, 2008.
Mount Johns Valley: race starts to create 800 homes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice is sweet but off-beat. Alice on track, but whack.
Planning: Delia won’t budge. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Artifical park gets three times the funding of the real thing. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
U-mine under looking glass. By KIERAN FINNANE.
US wide open for Centre art. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Batchelor’s plans under a mantle of ‘cultural safety’. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
After Melbourne gigs, The Moxie launch EP.
Like a ride on a decommissioned see-saw. Pop Vulture with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
New moves on plight, so easy to fix. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Shopportunity: It’s Not OK Mart! By DARCY DAVIS.
Mere Rumbal still has the moves. By EMMA HURLEY.
LETTERS: OLSH students help East Timor.
ADAM CONNELLY: Bats about tats.
Issue 1519 June 12, 2008.
Wake up, town centre! By KIERAN FINNANE at the Planning Forum.
Grey nomads keep on truckin’ on. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mayor to query ministers over ‘filth’ in town camps. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Design for people and streets - not buildings. By KIERAN FINNANE at the
Planning Forum.
Larapinta, Undoolya, Sadadeen not favoured for future housing. By
KIERAN FINNANE at the Planning Forum.
LETTERS: Habib is under attack from fellow alderman, and why teachers
strike.
Beating Berrrimah Line at ballot box. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Issue 1518 June 5, 2008.
Filth in town camps: Government turns blind
eye. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Court hears brawl charges. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council plan out of touch: Ald Habib.
Boffins for a
better desert. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Desert Knowledge CRC: The money’s good, but ...
Native title holders have no worries with uranium mine. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Sacred sites tours slow to catch on. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog down – a little.
Alice youth send message to the UN. By
DARCY DAVIS.
From town camp to the MCG.
Time travelling. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
A garden of delights. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Opal fuel
saved 13 lives.
ADAM CONNELLY: The global village just got bigger.
Issue 1517 May 29, 2008.
Are CCTV cameras in Todd Mall a waste of money?
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council wants to boost spend for tourism, freeze pay for aldermen. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Turning 20, a new studio, but is Imparja on the right track? By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Homicide returns to Alice.
Desert Knowledge picking up speed? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
If you don’t get
this, go back to painting your picket fence! Pop Vulture with CAMERON
BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: "Put
camels on eBay."
ADAM CONNELLY: Last bastion of resistance to the Finke.
Issue 1516 May 22, 2008.
Town planning: "I’ll listen," says Delia. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Power & Water Corporation keeps bungling.
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Planning: Thinking aloud.
Alice lobbies gear up for planning forum.
Camels out of control: efforts are inadequate & sporadic, says
report. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice the "murder capital" no more? By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Soon: bilingual storytime. By KIERAN FINNANE.
East coast gardeners more water savvy than dwellers of the desert. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Start of 2008 3rd driest on record. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
The joker in the pack. By ALEX NELSON.
Movie made in Alice. By DARCY DAVIS.
What’s for dinner at 21? Pop Vulture with CAMERON BUCKLEY.
LETTERS: Government
"complacent" over debt.
ADAM CONNELLY: My very own inconvenient truth.
Scary caterpillars. Our Backyard Bush by MEG MOONEY.
Issue 1515 May 15, 2008.
Rob Knight signals consultation on parks
transfer to Aboriginal ownership. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Council acts on illegal campers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Roof panels a solar dud? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Live exports back.
Alice to get eight more experienced cops. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Solar City a winner! (Contributed by Alice Solar City)
New tip operator boosts recycling. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dole cut if unemployed refuse job. By KIERAN FINNANE.
How to cope with the hard part of budget air travel. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The hidden shape of God. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Youth for a republic - by a whisker. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Shires debate.
ADAM CONNELLY: Putting
passion in its place.
Issue 1514 May 8, 2008.
Parks bid in Senate. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Moment of truth for Alice. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
NT Budget: Nothing big for Centre. By KIERAN FINNANE.
‘No discrimination in renting.'
Boarding school is in. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention not silver bullet?
Bob Taylor is going for it! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Crime, police numbers makes no sense. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
U-mine battle heats up. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Town Council aims for 20% Indigenous staff in one year. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Being a doc in the NT is more better.
To stay or to go, that’s the question. By DARCY DAVIS.
Pip pips the field with art fit for world show. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Council voting controversy lives on.
ADAM CONNELLY: Cain didn’t kill Abel
because he had a different passport.
Issue 1513 May 1, 2008.
Illegal camping, littering: How much longer
will this go on? By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Pearce has answers for town’s woes.
Group fights Alice uranium mine. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
IN BRIEF with KIERAN FINNANE: Town camps to go into Alice electorates –
win for Labor.
Governments stonewall queries on huge Aboriginal housing scheme. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Making Alice safer, friendlier, livelier? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Reading, riting – no rithmatic.
Art controversy again?
ADAM CONNELLY: A rite of passage for men,
women and children alike.
Issue 1512 April 24, 2008.
Alice Springs in 2020, through the eyes of
native title holders. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
New full time Mayor will centre on communication. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Councils’ watchdog on the alert. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Barb off to the what’s its name conference. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Teachers want not just money.
ADAM CONNELLY: High time for 2020 vision in The Alice.
Issue 1511 April 17, 2008.
Centre poor cousin in $.6b housing scheme. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council: doing deals worked. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Privatise Central Australia? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Fistful of dollars: Now for the facts.
Breathing life into the CBD. By KIERAN FINNANE.
A new NGO: Work for the dole that works.
We’re ready for experience seeker. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hardcore makeover at the Small Day In. By DARCY DAVIS.
Breathing life into the CBD. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Police "unwanted" or doing their duty?
ADAM CONNELLY: Licked by cunning linguists.
Issue 1510 April 10, 2008.
Cops mum on numbers. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Red Centre triumph. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mayor Damien rules supreme - for a week. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention: wins & hurdles. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Goodbye to ‘the good mayor’. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sofa responds to bums on seat.
Not another essay! Kids stand on digs. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: The Territory’s education fiasco.
ADAM CONNELLY: For the love of my sport.
Issue 1509 April 3, 2008.
Numbers of police "fudged". KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Diversion for juvenile offenders flops. By KIERAN FINNANE
Ryan looks safe for Mayor. By KIERAN FINNANE and ALEX NELSON.
Queries on town council pre-polling in Alice Springs.
Minister Burns will not comment on racism fiasco. COMMENT by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Call for conduct rules for both accommodation houses and guests. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Welcome to Abbott's Camp. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Heritage concerns oveer Adelaide House. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Palace? Bring it on. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: System of counting our votes is abhorrent.
ADAM CONNELLY: Four years of sheer hell for Mayor.
Issue 1508 March 27, 2008.
The agony of running Alice accommodation. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Recycling becomes an issue.
Tangentyere’s woman in council? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council’s lack of will on urban drift. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Town needs deeper debate on anti-social behavior, say council
candidates from different backgrounds. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Exhaustive preferential poll: you should be afraid to ask. COMMENT by
ALEX NELSON.
Vandals rampage on footy weekend.
A government without minders. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Everything old is new. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
ADAM CONNELLY: Silicon Valley is also in a desert!
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survey of major issues, What Alice Walts, CLICK HERE.
Issue 1507 March 20, 2008.
Sparks fly in lead-up to council polls. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council out in cold on masterplan. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Ociones, McIvor on main issues. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Habib seeks third term to "finish a few things". By KIERAN FINNANE.
Is tree planting rocket science? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Make rules for bush visitors work: Rawnsley. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Long time Aboriginal friends check his growing cynicism.
ADAM CONNELLY: Lifestyle is in the eye of the beholder.
Youth drama: the body beautiful. By DARCY DAVIS.
Issue 1506 March 13, 2008.
What we will do to stop the mayhem. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mills backs call for work camps. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Man hurt, car burned in attack by youth gang. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice Springs needs to play catch-up to tell her story. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Is ban on town camps boozing unenforced or unenforceable? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Golf club determined to beat handicap. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bread and circuses: big open air theatre.
It’s not just the Mayor. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Blocks, preferences, tactics. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cultural showpiece for council corner. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Living history. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: CLC way off the mark on parks.
ADAM CONNELLY: The circus is coming.
Issue 1505 March 6, 2008.
Alice to turn fortress mentality inside out. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Big brother watches.
National parks ownership a measure of Henderson’s commitment to Alice.
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The parks conundrum.
Life’s better with income management, say men and women from town camps
and bush. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Talk to us, not urban people: Green Senator is off mark. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Footy, Ronny: the spectacle was us. BY DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Govt. minder out of order.
ADAM CONNELLY: A face which only a mother could love!
Issue 1504 February 28,
2008.
Alice uranium town: in search of the facts. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Parks will be handed over to Aborigines. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Strategy to stop flouting of new Dry Town laws. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Town Council fuming over NT Govt largesse to Darwin. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Pine Gap show and tell? By KIERAN FINNANE.
The Alice Palace. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Let The Tribe speak.
Too many pollies. PART TWO of a COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: Sad loss of volunteer group.
Issue 1503 February 21,
2008.
Volunteers shut down in disgust. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Work camps or same old? Candidates on booze war. ERWIN CHLANDA speaks
with mayoral candidates about the failing Dry Town.
Will someone who can fix The Problem please stand up? COMMENT by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
McAdam’s resignation: insult to apparent injury? COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
LETTERS: We need an inspirational starting point to prime visitors for
The Centre.
Year 12: launching pad for life. By DARCY DAVIS.
Love songs and tassled nipples. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Centralian – it’s a different language.
Issue 1502 February 14,
2008.
Dry town a farce. By KIERAN FINNANE.
How clever really is this bit of desert knowledge? By KIERAN FINNANE.
The friendship of saying ‘sorry’ will be good for whole country. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
McAdam goes to back bench.
Clark gets parks facts wrong, says finance secrets are OK, brawls with
sport identity. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rellie Rally and a few ideas for improvement. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Canberra now listening to locals on NT intervention.
ADAM CONNELLY: Pollies below the Berrimah Line don’t represent the
right people.
Issue 1501 February 7,
2008.
... and now there are six. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Govt. minder, Advance Alice boss in fiery clash. WARNING: Some
language in this letter may offend.
Darwinites born to rule the Territory. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Mills working on alliance with Nats in Queensland. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Farewell William Trevor Stephens. Eulogy NOEL HARRIS.
Alice 1/8th of population, 1/8th of NTCE top scores. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Blind faith is scary.
Issue 1446 December 20,
2007.
Wannabee mayors tout policies. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Chrissy, then the long, dry stretch. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Who could shift the Indigenous affairs debate on the ground in The
Centre? COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Centre could lose another seat in the NT Parliament. Discussion by ALEX
NELSON.
Christmas for the other half (or how to have a festive drink in a dry
camp). By KIERAN FINNANE.
Two pennyless refugees make restaurant dream come true.
Art is political. By DARCY DAVIS.
Bowerbird - the figures. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Mince pies, paper hats.
Issue 1445 December 13,
2007.
Stewart running for Mayor. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Grabbing the Tiger by the tail: Now a bus company bites back.
Public art: Two on the short list. By KIERAN FINNANE.
... but not everybody is happy. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Breath tests not unusual where 6 die.
Imparja chief vague on future of station’s news.
Thumbs up for Year 10 at senior college. By KIERAN FINNANE.
School enrolments not yet responding to intervention. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Feeling connected. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Centre celebrity.
Issue 1444 December 6,
2007.
Camels: threat or opportunity? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Half a million wasted. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Land degradation has long history. By KIERAN FINNANE.
What did the bush vote mean? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention just one of the issues, says Anderson. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Blitz on grog excesses yields results.
Buffel grass increasing flood risk in The Alice? COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Australia’s "big noise" in Paris: Aboriginal art at Quai Branly. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Two Alice story writers among Australia’s best.
Fine French farce for FTroupe. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Tiger, Qantas flying off the handle.
ADAM CONNELLY: Selling my kidney for the plane fare home.
Issue 1443 November 29,
2007.
Qantas boycott. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pintupi art on fire: Half a million dollars, 2 days. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Snowdon wins seat but not Alice. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
John and Kevin and Clare and Paul and Alice. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
10 years later: 2% more people drink 13% more grog. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mayor’s poll.
Some beats on the Todd Table. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Martin, Stirling failed.
ADAM CONNELLY: A swirling world of pastel shirts and boater shoes.
Issue 1442 November 22,
2007.
Crunchtime for the new council laws. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Water: The cheap option. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Local issues will drive elections in The Centre. COMMENT by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Oil and gas explorers take on land council. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Democratic fervour in the faraway bush. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Intervention snags CLP hopes for Santa Teresa. By KIERAN FINNANE.
CDEP goes, too quickly.
StoryWall worries aired behind organisers’ backs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourism: the one-eyed leading the blind. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
As future of outstations hangs in the balance, where to for rural
health? By KIERAN FINNANE.
They begged for help but Alice didn’t listen. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Greens want a return to self-determination. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice’s own Summer Heights High: Boooooooring (the school, not the
show). By DARCY DAVIS.
New local CD: Calibre music from this country. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: What a moving experience.
LETTERS: Freedom of speech well worth a fight.
Issue 1441 November 15,
2007.
Save Pitchi Ritchi. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Story Wall is political: aldermen. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Their next trick: witch burning? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New house an expensive dream. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Looking back on the footy brawl. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Democracy decays. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Night curfew and community service keep six young vandals out of
courts. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice’s Gen Y hard at work. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Town rallies to save Pitchi Richi.
Issue 1440 November 8,
2007.
Water plan sells The Alice short. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Stop the shires: Anger growing. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice to lose more of its past? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Giles as the can do candidate. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Intervention ‘investigating options’ to help Wallace Rockhole shoppers.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Five cartons that did not make it.
Sanderson to run Art at the Heart.
Where is NTG money for ‘real jobs’?
Nov 24: The teens decide. By DARCY DAVIS.
Top End on top up.
ADAM CONNELLY: Grumpy old men need love too.
LETTERS: Camps part of Alice, says Fran.
Issue 1439 November 1,
2007.
Tourism moves infuriate lobby. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brough intervention slips a cog. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Labor’s answer to Brough. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Solar City no help with carbon pollution, say climate lobbyists. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: School results denial: Pull the other one!
ADAM CONNELLY: Angie and Brad: saccharine replaces true grit.
Tjukurrpa on CD. By DARCY DAVIS.
Good onya Ronja! By DARCY DAVIS.
Issue 1438 October 25,
2007.
Solar city hits straps. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Minister snubs MLA from his own party. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Looking back on the brawl. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Resort getting into STEP. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Rumour or reality for Anzac? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Snowdon road money mainly in the Top End.
LETTERS: Drowning under the dust, the mud, the blood and the beer.
SPECIAL COMMENT: Literacy going backwards for remote kids.
ADAM CONNELLY: It’s big and it’s cheesy.
Prime development with the lot – except for water. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Freedom just another word ...
Have tent, will travel: Bush by bus. By veteran bush walker GWEN HEWETT.
Issue 1437 October 18,
2007.
Intervention poll focus. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dirty secret. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
René Frederick Burger, guru and lark, passes away.
LETTERS: Education: costs up, performance down.
ADAM CONNELLY: Who’s going to pull what rabbit out of which hat?
Issue 1436 October 11,
2007.
Tourism bodies slammed for ‘agitating, boycotting’. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
‘Recycling’ fiasco goes on. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Land council lawyer acts against the instructions from Aboriginal
leaders.
A cross to bear.
Prison walls no obstacle to art.
Holiday Runamucks. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Alice Springs – It’s not too bad!
LETTERS: Good-by dongas – great idea!
Bush beckons. An adventure series by GWEN HEWETT.
Issue 1435 October 4,
2007.
Govt. mum on poo pipe. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
What a fest it was! By HARRIET GAFFNEY.
Lobbies lash out at YouTube diatribes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Import or home grow: How does the NT get and keep employees? By FIONA
CROFT.
Mamus on the Munda: Ghosts on the Ground. By ALI COBBY ECKERMANN.
LETTERS: Time government owned up to the grandstand fiasco, says
alderman.
ADAM CONNELLY: YOU think you’ve got problems!
Issue 1434 September 27,
2007.
Still no Labor policy on our intervention billion. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
If you haven’t heard a rumor by 10am, start one.
Will Arltunga be a ghost town, again? By FIONA CROFT.
Travelling to sell intervention: Labor MLAs cover vast areas. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
What future for outstations? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Done & Dusted. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Concert crowd shocked by middle-aged dancer.
LETTERS: Anti-social behaviour is back.
Issue 1433 September 20,
2007.
Back door parks grab: "Joint management" of Rainbow Valley shuts out
public from most of the park. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rock Resort boss quits
Football video sparks racial hatred on web. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Flood of Canberra cash for NT: More than a billion in next four years.
Drinkers on move.
Just 350km north of Alice – land, water and labour for horticulture.
Bands battle. By DARCY DAVIS.
A safe place to create. By FIONA CROFT.
ADAM CONNELLY: When you need high maths to have a party.
LETTERS: Crying over spilled booze.
Issue 1432 September 13,
2007.
Activists seek boycott of intervention. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Was Centrecorp boss in footy final brawl? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
We’ll keep up officer numbers, says top cop. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Desert Mob frenzy: Go, go, buy! By KIERAN FINNANE.
Town camps to go dry this week.
Controversial magistrate weighs in on activists’ side, spits the dummy.
By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Anderson sticks by her guns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Local historian chronicles great pioneering effort and adventure.
Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Barracking for the Jane Leonard and Steve Hodder writing team. Review
by KIERAN FINNANE.
A solid display from the sentimental poet. By DARCY DAVIS.
Desert Mob: What we do, who we are. By KIERAN FINANE.
LETTERS: Centrecorp should not prop up governments.
ADAM CONNELLY: APEC 2009 in Alice Springs!
Websites, brochures, awards won’t make Alice sustainable. COMMENT by Dr
David de Vries.
Issue 1431 September 6,
2007.
NT will be nation’s jobless basket case. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
CDEP assets likely to go to IBA trust. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Gallery new string to Titjikala’s bow. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dads supporting dads. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice drying out?
The Screaming VETs. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Joining a brotherhood of blokes.
LETTERS: A Joanne - Lindy park?
Issue 1430 August 30,
2007.
‘Bush tribes own the Centrecorp millions’. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
No school, no dole to go national.
Clare’s emergency response: Is it enough to close the gap? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Kings of the road fete.
New CATIA manager made Kununurra tick. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Getting private investments for Aboriginal communities. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Dust a Must. By DARCY DAVIS.
Colour and light.
You’d have to be hungry! By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: A demerit scheme for everyday life?
LETTERS: A flood dam for everybody?
Issue 1429 August 23,
2007.
Centrelink staff balloons as dole quarantine starts: 5 communities in
Central Australia to lead the way. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Sue Gordon sits down with Papunya women: "I’d kill abusers." By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Todd dam should be lake, says Chamber of Commerce boss. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Baby boomers now seniors making election demands.
Grave error.
ADAM CONNELLY: "I’m a mummy’s boy."
LETTERS: Money on the hoof.
StoryWall will become StorySite. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Vote on shires.
Rich fellowship to Alice artist.
Room for Bloom. By DARCY DAVIS.
Issue 1428 August 16,
2007.
Empires crumble. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
When the Big One comes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brough intervention: Anderson says it is the change we had to have. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
McAdam speaking with forked tongue? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Combined Aboriginal Organisations ‘no mandate from locals’: Call to
hand over Centrecorp millions. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Now where have I heard this one before? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
National heavyweight enters the employment game in The Alice. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Youth issues drown in alcohol concerns. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Justice delayed is justice denied. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
A joker who has a black background. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Time for flood control is now.
Issue 1427 August 9, 2007.
No action on killer floods. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Not too much between fest ears. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Getting serious about saving water? By KIERAN FINNANE.
"Old larrikin" remembered. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Brough juggernaut rolls on.
Four generations of talent. By FIONA CROFT.
Whales humping or pushing the envelope? By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Booze ID cards don’t work.
Issue 1426 August 2, 2007.
Native title compensation sought over town of Alice. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Festival HUB space moves to town. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Stand up money for real jobs? By FIONA CROFT.
ALP nosedives in Greatorex. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Taskforce doctors to return. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Grog runners transport booze in kangaroo carcasses. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Papunya’s Council looks to the future. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Be fair to pink. By DARCY DAVIS.
Harry Potter fans get final fix. By EMMA HURLEY.
LETTERS: Are shires just cash cows?
ADAM CONNELLY: Poll brings out a streak of cynicism.
Issue 1425 July 25, 2007.
Taskforce in top gear. Special report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sacred children: Life after Mal. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Where is Clare? By FIONA CROFT.
Sacred trees: Alice in one can only Wonderland. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
By-election moment of truth for CLP? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Violent Alice Springs. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Broadcaster part of the campaign?
Issue 1424 July 19, 2007.
Greatorex campaign: Running on empty. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Taskforce: many kids very sick at Ti Tree and Hermannsburg. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Five year leases over 0.1% of Aboriginal areas a land grab? By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Clairvoyance is for real. By FIONA CROFT.
Aussie camel wins international race for USA because he had a Yank on
his back.
Outstation movement blossomed yet Alice town camps grew, too. KIERAN
FINNANE speaks with historian DICK KIMBER.
Zenith: Stir at the top.
LETTERS: Taskforce - 17 seconds per inhabitant.
Issue 1423 July 12, 2007.
Taskforce settles in. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Getting to know eachother. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Herrick stands for Greatorex. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Neglect more serious than sex abuse. COMMENT by NETTIE FLAHERTY.
$2.3m show cattle sale. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
And now let’s cane the government for doing
something. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Yirara is "stabilising" college at The Rock. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Good timing for SBS series. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1422 July 5, 2007.
Alice Show: Bigger, better. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Blind eye on camps rubbish. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog war hard, but that is no reason to quit. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Howard’s Heroes in bad timing at Amoonguna. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Best ask grannies.
Council value for money? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Greatorex poll: Jane prods ALP, Matt hits static. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brough briefs: ‘Here for the long haul.’
A stitch in time. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Muslim cameleers were ‘exceptional explorers’. By FIONA CROFT.
LETTERS: Public, not public servants, should plan future of Alice.
Issue 1421 June 28, 2007.
A record of denial. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Two Hidden Valleys. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Town Council backs Mal except on dongas. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Tough love made real. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The nuts and bolts of change. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Brough’s revolution: the good and the bad. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dear Clare, you’re getting it all wrong: Gergory Andrews' letter.
Soccer self help. By FIONA CROFT.
Veggie variety or the road less travelled? By FIONA CROFT.
Alice Springs News short story competition: 2nd prize winner Jennifer
Mills. Sponsor: The Lane Restaurant.
Alice Springs News poetry competition: 1st prize winner Leni Shilton.
Sponsor: Asprint.
LETTERS: Howard’s not right till he’s fixed the problem.
ADAM CONNELLY: Nanna’s nose - not her nous.
Issue 1420 June 21, 2007.
Ratepayer rip-off? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Scullion in probe about CLC’s role in Centrecorp. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The horror of child abuse. By KIERAN FINNANE.
97 recommendations.
See no evil? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
No jail terms for Pine Gap Four. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Good onya, UNYA. By DARCY DAVIS.
Arrernte people gave OK for town campers to stay. Historian DICK KIMBER
speaks to KIERAN FINNANE.
Paul Sitzler: Foundations of modern Alice, NT firm. OBITUARY by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Alice lake? No, it’s Perfume Creek. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Volunteers and sponsors needed for Camel Cup.
‘tis the season for the beanie. By KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Stiff competition for getting on TV.
LETTERS: Call for Tangentyere to stop adding to the ‘river
of grog’.
Issue 1419 June 14, 2007.
Hapless Burke sparked off national parks grab. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Finke crowns head south.
Alice loses Mal’s $60m: Will his $20m go, too? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
$1m Emily for wine bar. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Peter Garrett’s whole new take on freedom of speech. By FIONA CROFT.
The slowly grinding wheels of justice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
The Vocal Local. By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: The BIG weekend.
LETTERS: Saving camp leases or lives?
Issue 1418 June 7, 2007.
Old Ghan back on the rails. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Food for thought! By FIONA CROFT.
A bad time for villains. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Nuclear Bonanza. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Will remote Australia be world’s uranium dump? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Activists struggle to get same old message heard. COMMENT by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Reconciliation, dongas and all that: Time to get it right. COMMENT by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council budget: Where will all the money go? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ADAM CONNELLY: Time and space in spades makes Alice perfect for making
movies.
LETTERS: Call for electric car subsidies.
Uni keeps growing.
ALICE SPRINGS NEWS SHORT STORY
COMPETITION WINNER: "Reason" by Jennifer Mills.
Issue 1417 May 31, 2007.
Fran’s blank on camps. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Statehood: Do we have your full attention? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rally supports Tangentyere. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice housing market slows, units nosedive. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Security guards: Touchy feely or big and burly. By FIONA CROFT.
LETTERS: Town camper’s taunt ‘we don’t need money’.
ADAM CONNELLY: I ryt 4 u!
Finke: The hardest ever. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dialogue with dailiness. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Are we merely pawns in someone else’s plot? PREVIEW by DARCY DAVIS.
ALICE NEWS STORY & POETRY COMPETITION: Double prize shows ‘how good
the writer is’.
Issue 1416 May 24, 2007.
No council for Yulara. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Delia’s dongas debacle (continued). By KIERAN FINNANE.
TOWN CAMPS: Wills clash. By ERWIN CHLANDA
TOWN CAMPS: Self determination: what benefit? By KIERAN FINNANE.
TOWN CAMPS: Haves and have nots.
TOWN CAMPS: Old timers say life is easier in Truckies town camp. By
FIONA CROFT.
Concrete camels cause curiosity. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Selling The Centre to Europe. By FIONA CROFT.
LETTERS: Good on you, Doris!
ADAM CONNELLY: It's a mug's game.
Borrowing from the future. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Drive-bys meet dry lives. REVIEW by DARCY DAVIS.
Issue 1415 May 17, 2007.
Mal Brough: Crunch time for town camps tomorrow. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Indigenous education: Bush results in decline. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Will the real leaders please stand up? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Black college sinking ship? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Spending money. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Abandoned public housing flat ignored by authorites. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Local tunes on CD and myspace. By DARCY DAVIS.
Walter Walloon on a circular journey. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
A special way of seeing. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
All that talk about booze is putting us off our beer. By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: The problem with crime is the endless failure to stop it.
ADAM CONNELLY: Distance makes the heart grow fonder!
Issue 1414 May 10, 2007.
Northside will trial photo ID to buy grog. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Federal Budget: Huge fillip for black housing. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
I can’t stop drinking. Poem by ALI COBBY ECKERMANN.
Alleged thieves, burglars and vandals, aged 11 & 12, back on the
streets and off to diversion. REPORT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Northside humbug. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Northside residents angry work on donga camps looks set to go. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Infringement notice with a sting.
One determined guy: Blind alderman in quest for Arafura Games gold.
Battling family embraces web business.
Untamed, unashamed: please explain. By DARCY DAVIS.
Dialogue with the earth. REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
ADAM CONNELLY: Did you see yourself on the telly?
LETTERS: " I want to break legs!"
Issue 1413 May 3, 2007.
Premium Opal? By KIERAN FINNANE.
The Mayor for whites? By KIERAN FINNANE.
All noise will go. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
No mass exodus from Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
"Shutists" are blown away: great Alice lives up to its reputation. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Donga Delia’s buckpass flawed. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
CLP takes aim at NT Budget.
Intensive care boosts school attendance. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Stories and sound bring the past to life. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Where have all the flowers gone? By DARCY
DAVIS.
Beckett an Australian hit. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Claypans launch for 21 art day: From one desert country to another.
ADAM CONNELLY: It’s what you say, not how you say it.
LETTERS: "Dongas will forever be associated with human misery and
hardship."
Issue 1412 April 26, 2007.
Behave in town, or get sent home: Aboriginal politician. REPORT by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
And now, here come the sniffers. REPORT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The natives are revolting. INTERVIEW by ERWIN CHLANDA with the Minister
for Central Australia .
Young lawbreakers must not be charged unless it's serious. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Walking, drawing, photographing, thinking, writing, learning. REVIEW by
KIERAN FINNANE.
The Gold Tooth Berrimahsaurus vs the Two Tone Whip Snake. By DARCY
DAVIS.
Not the middle of nowhere!
The weekend that was, plus the one after this. By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: Delia says DCA gave her option to say yes.
SUE WOOLFE: No small talk.
ADAM CONNELLY: We're the cool kids.
Issue 1411 April 19, 2007.
Chief Minister
booed. By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE.
Change of guard at the
Catholic Church in Alice. By KIERAN FINNANE.
No end to grog woes. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
From no family to a big one.
By KIERAN FINNANE.
Mayor says we don't need
Federal cops: would make us look like third world. By KIERAN FINNANE.
'Give each other a break.'
By KIERAN FINNANE.
More to camps deal than
meets the eye. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Youth is attacked in broad
daylight.
And on a lighter note: Moxie
give pollies a cracker. By DARCY DAVIS.
Juggling with changes.
REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Disturbing familiarity. FILM
REVIEW by ADELE SAINT and MARCUS HANSEN.
ADAM CONNELLY: The Larapinta
Line has a certain ring to it.
LETTERS: What has permit
system achieved?
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Issue 1410 April 12, 2007.
Cops have winning streak. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bid to say good-bye to dole. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Is zero tolerance the answer? COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Newcomers, stayers, visitors, consultants, truckies, latte lefties,
camels, termites, Aborigines, cyclists and people in shorts. BOOK
REVIEW by ANN DAVIS.
New look Batchelor Institute set to fire. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
"Don't be shame, be game." By KIERAN FINNANE.
No babble in Babel. FILM REVIEW by ADELE SAINT and MARCUS HANSEN.
Interstate troupe puts Aboriginal culture on show in the Centre, and
all around the world. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Springs history behind bars. By KIERAN FINNANE.
SUE WOOLFE: Is Alice ordinary or extraordinary?
ADAM CONNELLY: God (and Alice) don't need new PR.
LETTERS: Zero tolerance for some?
Issue 1409 April 5, 2007.
Dongas forever? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sweeper cover-up intensifies. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourist spot weed choked . By KIERAN FINNANE.
A weekend pad in town the latest in public housing. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Uranium fears and why should Alice be green? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Law & Order: Send in the Feds?
Art dream comes true. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sellout show still finding its feet. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Palm Sunday was a bore. By DARCY DAVIS.
Home grown youth drama.
Kevin "Bloody" Rudd: Leader with class, observes DAVE PRIOR.
ADAM CONNELLY: That unpleasant smell in the room.
LETTERS: Fellow Central Australians, cheer up!
Issue 1408 March 29, 2007.
Law and order: what problems? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Options for uni and good jobs . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Crime figures don't tally. By KIERAN FINNANE .
Money stronger than words: Mayor explains dongas plan . By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Love letters from town hall : ERWIN CHLANDA corresponds with Mayor
Fran.
Class clowns take Funny as their subject . By DARCY DAVIS.
LETTERS: The Martin Government has lost control of the streets: Send in
the Army?
ADAM CONNELLY: She'll be right or Viva La Revolucion .
Issue 1407 March 22, 2007.
Cops late ... again . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sweeper: Fran knew . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Minister silent on police delay fiasco . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Todd Mall: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Kintore: Happy and proud to have a new art shed.
Home is Alice, work address: cyberspace . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Becoming mother in the heat .
There is good money in bush tomatoes, for the researchers . By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Children in care: are good intentions enough? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Another face to Miss Pink . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Neo, a Near Earth Object? By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Police Minister our super hero .
LETTERS: Todd River rubbish a disgrace .
Issue 1406 March 15, 2007.
Police fail to investigate violent robbery in CBD . By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Housing is the key . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Delia, oh Delia ...
Stop Alice promotion? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Law & order: "no confidence" in government. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council officers want secrecy . By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Advance Alice not extreme .
Appeal to make streets of Alice safe and fun! By KIERAN FINNANE.
Dongas "bastardry"
Keep screaming turbines away, say rural residents .
Fuzz is great fun but not for faint-hearted! FILM REVIEW by ADELE SAINT
and MARCUS HANSEN.
ADAM CONNELLY: Finding the "angle" of the Teeerriitooory.
Issue 1405 March 8, 2007.
Guardian Angels street patrols as youths run amok . By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
New town council purchasing scandal: Not happy ratepayers . By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Meeting on climate change draws heat . By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Devastation on Todd River Downs massive, says CLC .
House blocks: black firm may take over . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice seniors get serious in national lobby group . By KIERAN
FINNANE.
The Alice on top - for all the wrong reasons .
Journalists behind bars .
Airguitar on Ghandi's staff . By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: What have I got myself into?
Issue 1404 March 1, 2007.
Town council split over the future of Old Timers' camp. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
Shadows in our solar system . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Yulara's $2.5m boarding school has no boarders . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Kevin's fight for his home on the range . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Going public . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Road money: Feds, NT tension . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The art of covering . By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: My kingdom for a beard.
LETTERS: 'Shutists' descending on Alice .
Issue 1403 February 22,
2007.
Gas search: jobs boom? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Valley deal to clear way for hundreds of blocks . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice police: same troops, new general. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Snowdon on sinking "jobs for dole" ship . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal advancement stille the focus for Snowdon. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Let's get around naked for a while: alderman . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Business backing musical . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Every breath you take . By KIERAN FINNANE.
The ranges are alive with the sound of Warren H . By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: Pollies are people too, or so they say .
LETTERS: What Territory lifestyle?
Issue 1402 February 15,
2007.
Rates, roads, rows? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Martin's 20 secret park deals under Native Title Act . By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Leader or figurehead? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Excuses for inaction or determination to get things done: which way,
Alice? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal advancement stille the focus for Snowdon. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Making coffee is more than pushing buttons. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Hip hopportunity . By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: A tissue, a tissue, we all fall down .
Issue 1401 February 8,
2007.
Leaders push for grog card. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Talk of vigilantes follows bashings. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rural land race. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Donga debate deepens . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Year 12 ranking . By KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Why dongas in town while remote facilities in tatters?
Council: big plans but no money . By KIERAN FINNANE.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie ... that's Amira . By
DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: 320 days to Christmas .
Issue 1350 December 21,
2006.
What a year! By ERWIN CHLANDA.
"Urban drift" begins and ends 2006 for council . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Creative pulse beating in Alice . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Numbers brawl in tourism, but the bottom line is we're still waiting
for the big boom . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mal the man . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Parks seem safe as Big Mal holds out . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Labor way in front . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The Power and the Water but no Glory . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alive and free . By KIERAN FINNANE.
More crime . By KIERAN FINNANE.
CAT wants to buy CSIRO premises with public money. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
ADAM CONNELLY: The politically correct dust storm .
Celebrating who we are . By DARCY DAVIS.
Issue 1350 December 14,
2006.
Third candidate for Mayor: Order tops agenda . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mass brawl: No charges . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Yipirinya teacher accused of bullying his colleagues . By KIERAN
FINNANE.
New freight deals may brighten rail fortunes. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Answers soon on local government reform and second airline .
Tanami highway work .
Centre seeds deals in global markets . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Van Haaren sees red over interference by officers . Aldermen say no to
muzzle, tackle hard tasks together .
Young (mostly) film makers going ape . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Fiddle fest . By DARCY DAVIS.
ADAM CONNELLY: One man's cult is another man's cringe .
LETTERS: Opal is safe, says Minister.
Issue 1349 December 7,
2006.
Centre "worst in the world" for stabbings . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Brolgas flight near stall . By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alderman attached to "angry" lobby set to run for Mayor. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
More questions on dongas .
LETTERS: Dongas - Are we so used to complaining that we can't just say,
thank goodness!
ADAM CONNELLY: One man's cult is another man's cringe .
Chefs to the rescue of fine food . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Writing takes prisoners beyond their walls . By KIERAN FINNANE.
Sausages and condoms. By DARCY DAVIS.
Pool danger .
Issue 1348 November 30,
2006.
Own council in talks to get a second airline. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
The centre on stage. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Council votes for cost free curfew and uncosted cameras in the mall. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Block itinerant camp on northside, says Braham.
Minister conceals report after her authority hears evidence from 120
locals. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Call for health professionals to dob in brutes.
New anthology of Central Australian writing. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY thinks Jessica Simpson could benefit from a
trip to Alice.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR. D.R. Chewings explains the
motivation
behind his campaign to clean up illegal dumping around Alice and
laments the lack of support from the town council.
Issue 1347
November 23,
2006.
Coucil sends family firm into liquidation. By
ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Exporting art. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Real estate sales show ‘stunning’ decline in Alice, ‘staggering’ growth
in Darwin.
Solution for Willowra refugees?
Cattleman backs students to study their own backyard. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Hospital building fiasco is now before the courts.
Charity made easy: come to their feast! By
KIERAN FINNANE.
30 years of running.
Columnist ADAM
CONNELLY wonders if the
mince pies are really this
year's?
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR Jim Cleary
looks back at the 1960s
when local Indigenous people participated in a thriving local tourism
industry.
Issue 1346
November 16,
2006.
Indigenous tourism booms - in Namibia . By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Winds of change for travel lobby. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Second no to White Gums development. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Council gets ultimatum over CCTV in the Mall. By
KIERAN FINNANE.
The education you didn’t know we were getting. By JACQUIE CHLANDA.
Columnist ADAM CONNELLY has heard that Darwin
is taking over Alice Springs as the unofficial gay capital of
Australia.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR Ross Pollock argues that Mereenie Loop
Road funding would be better spent on upgrading
access to the MacDonnell Ranges beauty spots.
Issue 1345
November 6,
2006.
Alice lobby gains pace. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Quit the path to cultural suicide, being a victim'. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Public should get mulch: Ald Koch.
Qantas takes us for ride. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Big plans for Miss Pink's garden. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Whose problem - ours or theirs? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Leaders must lead.
Land and culture – necessary but not enough for the future. By ROSALIE
KUNOTH-MONKS.
Columnist
ADAM CONNELLY examines the
pitfalls of Alice's varied social scenes.
In our lead LETTER TO THE EDITOR Leader of the Opposition Jodeen Carney
says, if elected to government, the CLP will repeal the speed limits on
open roads.
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
1251
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.
Desert dancing delights. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Bass draws crowd both sides of fence. Report by JACQUI CHLANDA.
A harrowing story from behind bars had fest crowd spellbound. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Bush food delights. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Rules: Magpies swoop to gold. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Football: Vikings victorious. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Disappointment is an old friend. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
I want to believe in tomorrow. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: We know WHO did not make the world.
Issue 1236
September 7, 2005.
Cannabis fuels violence. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Kon promises protest half life till dump dropped. Report by by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Science teacher creates fuss with seminar attacking evolution. Report
by by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Centre needs a nuclear waste dump, says council candidate. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Racist stickers: man fingered in internet chase. Report by by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Geothermal rail power?
Fly me to the moon. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Anorexic arts budgets. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Rugby: Dragons breathe fire. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Netball: Depleted Wests prevail. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Rules: Souths get scare. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Injury knocks out motocross leader. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Error in native title report.
Issue 1235
August 31, 2005.
Dump easy dole: Blueprint for battered Ayers Rock community. EXCLUSIVE
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Qantas plane in near Alice disaster. Report by by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Parks handover: More questions than answers. Report by by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Hot granite power may bring real clean energy. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Uranium politics. Report by ALEX NELSON.
Leader award has travel in store for high achiever.
Live shows in spades. Preview by KIERAN FINNANE.
St John's 'at breaking point'. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
7000 for dinner? She'll be right, mate. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Legend in her lifetime. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Old Ghan rides again!
LETTERS: Nuclear bombs come from civilian reactors.
Netball: Panthers prowl out. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Aussie Rules: Souths show strong side. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Passing time on the cultural cringe. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The big baddies. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1234
August 24, 2005.
Queries over parks deal. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What's hot and what's not in the quest for native title.
$3m grandstand, but local clubs still banned from Traeger Park. Report
by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
The dying goes on. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
N-dump row not new? Report by ALEX NELSON.
He's sleeping rough to help third world. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Choose a course, not a university. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Build yourself, save packet. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: What next? Opal glue? Opal paint?
Scrap bug.
Epicure: mellow, stirring heart tuggers. By MISS MUSICA.
Jo Dutton book coup.
AFL league decided. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Football's Federals fail finals. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
What a load of bull! Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Misplaced optimism? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Dress down every day. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1233
August 17, 2005.
Uranium to boom? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Nuclear energy: the horse has bolted. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Native title decision sets course. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The wrong model for Alice homeless? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Are courts too soft on crime? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Selection panel all Darwin based.
'I always knew I wanted to do something'. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bruce and Lizzie not alone in time of need. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Aussie Rules: Wests again.
Football: who will win the 2005 cup? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Leave me alone, Houston. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Many happy returns. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1232
August 10, 2005.
Native title owners say: Don't pay beggars. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Chief Minister leaves tourism industry in the dark. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Visitor figures up as overseas tourists return: Peterkin.
Beds full, shops not. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Fallout over new mines, nuclear dump. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Film, TV crank up. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Still hope for Opal fuel roll-out here.
Know your own world first, says Alice's fantasy author. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Verdi likely to top league. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Feds lose again. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
On the margins of the margins. Series by DICK KIMBER.
I just can't remember. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The Alice: what others think doesn't matter. COLUMN by VIKTORIA
CORMACK.
Issue 1231
August 3, 2005.
N-dump wrangle. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bully Canberra instead, says ALEC.
The West MacDonnell national park: world class but at risk. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Red tape ties up smelly problem. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pollies' holy grails: an ALP Alice seat, Darwin CLP boss. COMMENT by
ALEX NELSON.
Police: Ayers Rock town goes it alone. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Problems with pool deeper than expected. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice a drag in telly land. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
On the margins of the margins. Series by DICK KIMBER.
LETTER: How I miss The Alice!
Soaked through to the skin. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Have a picnic. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Centre's own cycling son. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
RULES: South still lead. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Issue 1230
July 27, 2005.
Rivals talk. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pool open September. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
No level playing field for kids' sports travel. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
The drum on buffel. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice's dead children to be remembered.
Letters: Canberra think again about nuclear dump!
W. Rubuntja: The honour he deserved. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Super scoring for Feds and Pioneer. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Scorpions strong in defence. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
The world out there is also right here. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Geographically challenged. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1229
July 20, 2005.
Terrific Larapinta trail. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ayers Rock: rules, rip-offs and lots of signs. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Unequal outlook for NT babies. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Springs confused over statehood. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Greatorex lessons bode ill for ALP. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Transparent government? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Joys and changes over a lifetime. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
She's immaculate and I am fast deteriorating. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
In sickness & in health. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: Radioactive waste - Some of it is ours!
Wests again in rugby league. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Rules: Federals top ladder. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Issue 1228
July 13, 2005.
Pushing The Alice. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Land and sky: How to make them work for a desert economy. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Fran's back. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Big focus on a little water. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
One hump or two? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Dynamism vs containment. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Auricht takes four titles. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Dead heat for South and Feds. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Nervous breakdowns at home. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Gaps, gaps and more gaps. COLUMN by MANDY WEBB.
Issue 1227
July 6, 2005.
Snowdon: Talks or strife if Landrights Act is changed. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
New leader's opening shots miss the target. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Selective reporting. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
W. Rubuntja Pengarte: The passing of a great leader.
The United States of the Outback.
Third youth. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Stories told by stars, the world over. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Show offs in full swing. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Being Bridget Jones in The Alice. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Rovers share their secret. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Pioneers no show. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Squash getting stronger. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Young top rider. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Alice Springs a hardship posting? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Now you're talking! COLUMN by MANDY WEBB.
LETTERS: No strong CLP support across Central Australia.
Issue 1226
June 29, 2005.
Huge health theft probe. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Loraine back in and Alice will come first. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Election shot in the arm for Alice? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Speculation about a close poll paid off for Labor. COMMENT by ALEX
NELSON.
Our desert of extremes: from drought to flood. Series by DICK KIMBER.
LETTERS: Road funds mess blame on Snowdon.
Priorities in dealing with drunks. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
School attendance: What's been done? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Buena Vista Social Club revisited: The secret of almost eternal life.
Preview by KIERAN FINNANE.
The first great recorded flogging of country at Dalhousie Springs.
Series by DICK KIMBER.
He loved anything rough and ready. Obituary by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Rovers romp back to form. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
First frost changes the course for golf. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Football: wishlist for election pledge. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Batman in Alice. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
After the poll, what counts? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1225
June 22, 2005.
It's time ... for a Central Australian political party. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
New Papunya probe. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice bucks NT trend. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Gerry told to vote "miles away". Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
People speak. ELISABETH ATTWOOD does an exit poll.
Our desert of extremes: from drought to flood. Series by DICK KIMBER.
Despite the rain, it's still very dry. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alcohol rehab unit answers charges.
$0.4m theft probe: department mum. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Desert win in Darwin. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Local trainers win at Fanny Bay. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Darwin, what is it for? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
What good are we doing for planet? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1224
June 15, 2005.
Power politics. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The Finke was full of drama - death, birth, victory, failure, and the
first rain in a year. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
West MacDonnells homework not done, say Greens. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Beating sniffing. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Papunya progress.
Still time to gaffe and grab. ERWIN CHLANDA speaks with BILL WILSON.
Another story we won't be able to share. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Fran: fact & fantasy. COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Police will be judge and jury with CLP curfew. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Help homeless! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bandaid solution, ALP style. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ballerinas off to Prague. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
We pay for bad food choices. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
What happened to skilled trades? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1223
June 8, 2005.
Spin vs facts. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourism doldrums. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Northern suburbs people are just guys like you and me. ERWIN CHLANDA
speaks with CDU lecturer BILL WILSON.
What chance for the independents? COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
Rehab centre in strife - again. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rural residents question effluent water reuse plan. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Indigenous policies on track, land rights changes on hold: Anderson.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Good scripts need ageing, says top screenwriter. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Why grown-ups go back to school. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Same old: order, tidiness and sporting complexes. COLUMN by VIKTORIA
CORMACK.
Spam for the Old Eastside. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Juniors' joy inspires seniors. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Vale Les Loy, Alice King of racing. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Winter winners follow Cup. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Spinach eat Vikings. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
A miracle thanks to Alice hospital. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Don't talk with your mouth full. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1222
June 1, 2005.
Goodbye mandatory sentencing, hello zero tolerance? Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Territory Budget 2005-06: The fine print. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ricky beats the employment odds. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Desert Knowledge not bright enough to make a sunny case for The Alice.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Fish has a soul mate in the US of A.
Money freeze to harm Alice's main art centre. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Cattle moved to Aboriginal land to escape the drought.
Don't talk with your mouth full. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
A miracle thanks to Alice hospital. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Tigers on top. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
A cure for wannabes. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Winter winners follow Cup. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Spinach eat Vikings. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
A miracle thanks to Alice hospital. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Don't talk with your mouth full. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1221
May 25, 2005.
Clamp-down on bush councils? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New broom for dole scheme. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Reprieve for Rieff Building? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Civic Centre views range from "wasted money" to "the old one was
tacky". Survey by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
His life on "jobs for the dole". Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Deserted by every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air.
Historical feature by DICK KIMBER. Part 2.
Belt tightening for Araluen. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Local crafts up with leaders. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
LETTERS: Warumpi - Let's forget the money.
Yirara goes bush. By DENNIS CLARK, a staff member at Yirara College.
Town vs Country: Stars shine bight! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
A pretty penny on 3-year-old Barraba Sun. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Winter winners follow Cup. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Spinach eat Vikings. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Slugs, drugs, political thugs. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Better than heaps mad. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1220
May 18, 2005.
Life on the dole to get harder in Alice Springs? Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Artists 1, land council lawyer 0. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Nurses muzzled. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
SA "pipped" by NT champs.
Drought: The heavens have turned to bone. Historical feature by DICK
KIMBER. Part 1.
Civic Centre on track to cost a fortune. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The "stay the same" pizza bar. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Iron man eats up big. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Lim, Mayor fight it out over trees, town camps. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Pay for my ute, theft victim demands. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Rules: What a draw! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer: Take leaf from juniors' book. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Winter winners follow Cup. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Sun beats down on humdrum towns. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Why Australians like ostriches. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1219
May 11, 2005.
8 hour wait for flying doctor. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
RFDS a "blackfeller taxi"?
Guides want 50% cut from shops. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Dead 'roo buck pass. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New questions as Papunya council implodes. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Incumbency is dead in Top End, still kicking in Centre. Comment by ALEX
NELSON.
Don't give up, survive! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Volunteering: The best things are free. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
High fliers shun package tours. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Fiona O'Loughlin: Back home all's a laugh. Review by ERWIN CHLANDA.
NT Tourist Commission: $18.5m tout. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ron's sweet hobby. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Aboriginal student's long distance feat.
Rules tables turn. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Viking victors. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Arafura beckons for unbeaten Alice swimmers. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
LETTERS: What if TV's "The Alice" were a shop?
Alice, the good wife? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
The battle against worthless clutter. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1218
May 4, 2005.
Break Ghan trip: Sleep-over for rail travellers may be boon for Alice.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Budget goodies.
Clare Martin: Dollars and good deeds. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Feds reckon ALEC not so smart. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
All for the birds: They feel the pressure of the drought. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Blessed fools. Review by DOROTHY GRIMM.
"Strength, depth of this mob's culture". Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Fiona O'Loughlin: Funny girl is dead scared. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
LETTERS: Drunk or high not an excuse!
Movie money madness? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Wrestling with remembrance. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Oldfield held the Ace card in $75,000 Cup. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Even stevens in A Grade footy. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Battle royale. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1217
April 27, 2005.
Flying Doctor "mantle of safety" becomes a crop top every night. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
ALP candidate is in more hot water. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
"On Track" drugs project off track. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Council drain on ratepayers' patience. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Itinerants out of control: Burke. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
NT Government is "swimming in money". Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Gallipoli hero helped shape Alice. Report by ALEX NELSON.
Board to consider certifier's licence.
Tangentyere: Constructing confidence. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
George Muir is charged with soccer money theft.
It's weird outside the Territory. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
What's the meaning of an easy life? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Rules: West down Pioneers, again. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Big day buildup. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1216
April 20, 2005.
Alice's agonising choice. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Silver circle still wields black power: Allegation. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Funding after ATSIC: who'll win? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Zenith: Loving those mellow tunes. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Pride job. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Springs short changed: Chamber. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council - bare earth policy? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The didge man says: It's up to community to promote Alice. Report by
ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Colour power wins Titjikala. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Clare Martin's thanks for nothing. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
How good really is all that clean air? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Aussie Rules: Westies find what it takes. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Guns were blazing. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1215
April 13, 2005.
Pork barrels ring hollow. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Writing parking tickets is only part of a ranger's day. Report by
ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Ranger punched.
Education funding boost as Alice TER scores lead changes. Report by
ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Desert Knowledge: Who caused delay?
"Our church is about being among people." Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Just when you thought it was unsafe to go back into the water ...
Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Paris to Alice. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
North, from west to east. Preview by KIERAN FINNANE.
Deep in digital dismay. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Forget all UFOs, the Russians are coming. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Rules stage is set. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1214
April 6, 2005.
Labor star in money probe: Vanstone orders report into dealings by
Alison Anderson. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Native title row flares. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice in childcare crisis? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Mayor Fran to be monitored.
15 minutes of fame. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
What future for Braitling after the next election? Comment by ALEX
NELSON.
Conway family regrets death of burns victim and helped Canadian
relatives.
Alice education no barrier to success. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Charge bush rates and other wishes on local government list. Report by
ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Rate cash lost. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
The resonance of rust. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Judy Barker: "I don't mind being taken for a fella." Profile by
ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTERS: Mayor debate is defunct.
Diving blocks - mental block? By ALICE SPRINGS NEWS reporter ELISABETH
ATTWOOD who has swum the English Channel.
Every day was like Sunday. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Risks and responsibility: nobody's fault. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
World game kicks off. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules, Centre style. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Top fields, good racing. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1213
March 30, 2005.
Horrific fire death: Authorities slow to act. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Clare Martin: Words and deeds. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA and ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Convention Centre: the $12m question. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Festival perfect for sharing stories. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
15 minutes of fame. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
More aldermen say Mayor Kilgariff must stand down. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Old Ghan may run again for Finke race. By ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Go, home grown theatre! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The people's Parliament. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Why did you come, asked ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTERS: Water waste: More reports.
Election wish lists no way to plan future. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Too extreme to be true. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Cricket: Mad dogs and Territorians! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Department of Corrections honoured at Pioneer Park. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1212
March 23, 2005.
Share our Story is an SOS, says Burke. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Half of tourism commission budget goes on tour ads. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Fran Kigariff to stand on her record. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
"CAT's left behind chip heaters and dunnies for a service focus."
Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
New Batchelor - go and get it! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Does Labor rely on women candidates? Report by ALEX NELSON.
Letters: I'm unashamedly pro-business: Ald Stewart.
St Pat's races draw big crowd. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cricket: Feds smash West. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Go and explore a drain. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Writing an ode to a louse. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1211
March 16, 2005.
Black children need 'time out'. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Share our tall story? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Healthy school lunches: headway. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Heavy days for heritage, says honoured campaigner. Report by DOROTHY
GRIMM.
Richard Lim no push-over. Report by ALEX NELSON.
The two worlds of Jungala Kriss. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Cycling's desert storm. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cricket: Wests & Federal in final. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Not desperate for a housewife. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Having a brainlock. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: Alderman Murray Stewart on big ego trip?
Issue 1210
March 9, 2005.
The Mayor must go, says alderman. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What Fran's colleagues said.
Rocky road to power. Report by ALEX NELSON.
Fat chance of healthy school lunches for teens? Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
$10,000 for Pedro. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Red-faced mayor apologises over council officer blunder. Report by
ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Valentine vows for vegans. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Elder responds to CLC.
When you don't get what you see. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Playing the field. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Passionate belief. Review by JACQUI CHLANDA.
On the road again! Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Federals beat Rover, RSL and Wests game 'sprinkled' out. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Track challenge. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Practice in front of the mirror. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Carrot on a stick. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1209
March 2, 2005.
Lack of tour beds down to Govt, says business chief. Report by
ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Mayor may stand for Labor. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Hospital blame: open questions. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Jobs for the boys? COMMENT by ALEX NELSON.
New calls for break away land councils. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
With friends like these ... COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
On the road again! Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Seven a side emotions run high. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Imparja Cup for indigenous finest. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Plans for nothing. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
What's in a name? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1208
Feb 23, 2005.
Hospital: Whose mess? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hospital a legacy from CLP, says Toyne.
Opposition charge: hospital secrets and procrastination.
"Yes, Minister" on work for the dole. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Town camp litter is "unacceptable". Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Two ministers and a lake on agenda of second chance Denis. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Born again CLP takes back the new Burke. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Prince Charles: A palace in the Alice. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Artists want administrator but land council sacks him. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Mobs of dust, more to come. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Rugby: Early baths for Devils and Cubs. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Fire Joe is ablaze. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cricket: All Rover for Blues. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
On the smell of an oily rag. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Waiting for the DVD. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1207
Feb 16, 2005.
New life for Old Ghan? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Litter a council responsibility. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Building faith. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Darwin rail: back to road? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
The life of jugs. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Mostly metal.
Minor premiers may miss match play. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Are football's Vikings invincible? Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
People-watching induces sleep. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Caterpillar to butterfly. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: Alice News turns up heat.
Issue 1206
Feb 9, 2005.
Powerful challenges. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Outback Highway progress. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
How will the world see us? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice on foot. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The rising tide of coffee. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
In cold deep water. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
LETTERS: Mayor wasting her time: Leak probe will lead nowhere.
RACING: Surprise upset yields big dividends! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
CRICKET: Feds in charge again. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1205
Feb 2, 2005.
Govt. luke warm in fight against huge land prices. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
"I was captured by wild Aborigines." MEMOIR by ALEC KRUGER.
LETTER: Kruger story sparks appeal to Aborigines: Take charge of your
destiny, says one of their own.
The river an asset, and hills for living pleasure. REPORT by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
League finance desperate but saviour match blown! Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
CRICKET: January games weaken Federal. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer back from Chrissy break. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Our worries are so small. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
The demise of Outback Man. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The
best stories from our summer editions in the last week of December,
2004 and in January, 2005.
Issue 1147
Dec 22, 2004.
Rock: Lame buffel battle. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Getting the basics right. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Dear Santa. Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Time travel with Terry.
Measuring up against Alice. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Stuff-ups that can't be fixed. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Measuring up against Alice. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Cricket: Feds sound into break. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
World game is fast and spicy at mid way point. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1146
Dec 15, 2004.
Mills builds race future on "mutual obligation". Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Land rights: how the other half lives. Report by Erwin Chlanda.
Machado sacking could end savage feud - Toyne.
Who was Simon Rieff? Report by JOSE PETRICK.
Restrained democracy. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
A pub where racial discrimination has the official stamp of approval.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
I'm dreaming of a bland Christmas. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Wrapped up and ready to go. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Cricket: Feds are still on a roll. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1145
Dec 8, 2004.
Get out of town, land council tells CLP candidate. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Racist pamphlets are out of step with spirit of The Alice. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Answers, not airfares. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New broom not enough? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Letters: Heritage, boardroom speak.
When the truth is too bad to be true. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cricket: Federals confirm top spot. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Faith, hope and Christmas. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Buying a car a shock to the system. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Cricket: Federals confirm top spot. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1144
Dec 1, 2004.
20 years on: looking back over resort's rocky road. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Dump fight: I don't trust town council officers, says alderman. Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice architect's world wide footprint: Now govt. to bulldoze one of
his works. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bev the Rev - have Akubra, will travel. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Petition wrangle: who lives where?
Think Pink this silly season. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Stalking a chickpea rissole. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Cricket: Feds run riot. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer is now called football. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1143
Nov 24, 2004.
Snob Hill: third time lucky? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Men on the land dwindling. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Cattle: Not much bull.
Paedophilia: Paying the price. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Minister blank on gains from knocking down old buildings. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Let nature do it for you! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Robin, the Preloved King. Profile by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Ice Angry Orange Juice washes down Oil Dried Meat Floss Toast in the
Rural Scenery Pisa joint. By ANN DAVIS.
Between interesting tasks. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Books - for what they're worth. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Cricket: Traeger Park to get a well-earned spell. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Two wins for Gillett while Norton cops a suspension. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1142
Nov 17, 2004.
Shades of Guantanamo Bay. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Labor and CLP: Same, same, says heritage lobby. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Public unhappy with how town council performs its main tasks. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Ken and Lesley Hansen: Their basic tool is commitment. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS: Help for addicts: office hours only.
The charms of Chinglish. By ANN DAVIS.
A chewing gum state of mind. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Time to get out of the cage? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Norton rides four winners. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
RSL in first innings win. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1141
Nov 10, 2004.
Prize: Alice's treasure house enriched. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Buying art: the hard decisions. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
Moronic mutts and mad music: what you can do. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: CLC chief hits back and draws more fire.
$340,000 painting shot in the arm for kidney clinic. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Russel Ward: The Bear necessities of life. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
In love with a hill.
Alice cricket mimics poor scores in test. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Speedway: Furious fun. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
We like what we know. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Always flat out. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1140
Nov 3, 2004.
Council bid may bring skilled staff. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Snob Hill battleground again: developer offers new proposal. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
'There is more to Aboriginal life than what you see in the street and
river.' Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Minders gearing up for Territory election in 2005. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
LETTERS: 'Territory government advertising arrogance.'
Council library on back burner. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New laws may kill battery trade. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Owning images: It's not black and white. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Leather on willow resounds in Alice. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Fuel to the fire of fast cars. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
The Springs' own carnival. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Heaps of worries, mate. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Tricks, treats: the dark side. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1139
Oct 27, 2004.
Land rights revamp: CLP set to call shots. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Projects for locals. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Territory Government fails midwives. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
TiTree grapes of wrath. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Do gold medals really mean gold for Alice? Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Alice tourism industry: Has it become complacent? Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
Inspired by Old Alice houses: Heritage can be contemporary. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Land council under attack. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The race that doesn't stop the space base.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Abolish Central Land Council.
Ex-Alice boy world's 2nd best BMX rider. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Time to win.
Car sales: the brakes are on. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Masters' joy. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
RACING: 1500 at Pioneer Park: Young Guns in control. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Of ants and men. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
No chance of a long way home. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1138
Oct 20, 2004.
Second resort mooted for King's Canyon. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Masters are marching in. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
How the NT governments blew our chances for cheap car fuel. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
No cane but reform for education officials. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Reconciliation?
Rangers poison historic palms. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
"Sista" by LENI SHILTON. 3rd prize, sponsored by Asprint, in the Alice
Springs News inaugural short story competition.
Institute of Aboriginal Development boss: Education is a cut throat
business. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Buddies in love and crime. Review by JULIA WINTERFLOOD.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Comments on Land Council hit nail on the head.
RACING: The true blue Geiger gallops to a hat trick. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
What about me, me, me? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Gentle tales about underachievement. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1137
Oct 13, 2004.
Native title: insider trading query. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Inquiry canes Education Department. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Central Land Council: 30 more years? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal pride comes to town. COMMENT by DICK KIMBER.
The Bridge. PENNY WHILEY wins the second prize, donated by the Alice
Springs Resort, in the Alice News Short Story Competition.
YMCA pool management under fire. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
LETTERS: Rural blocks alert.
Journey to the centre of the patio. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Alice skies with silver linings. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Cricket: Wests & Federals cruise to victory. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
RACING: The Park's 5 event meet treat. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1136
Oct 6, 2004.
Govt. gets a handle on sniffing. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
It's desert ignorance. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ambulance policy: Lives at risk.
Rich and poor in Lingiari.
Controversial entry wins first prize in $1000 Alice Springs News short
story competition. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Inaugural Alice Springs News short story competition winner: "Beyond
the Mermaid" by CHAY BROWN.
LETTERS: International airport for Alice - more than meets the eye.
Issue 1135
Sept 29, 2004.
$1.1m for native title land. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Election school policies: Who wins? Who knows! Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
"Me too" says Snowdon on Anderson's airport pledge. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Bid to muzzle aldermen gets dumped 7 votes to 4. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Ambulance officers looking for cover. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Kings of the road and guardians of the road. Report by ELISABETH
ATTWOOD.
A place of theatre. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Howzat! Cricket season begins early in the Alice. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Young gun lets fly. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cyclist gear up for our games. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Dogs don't lay eggs. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1134
Sept 22, 2004.
Deputy Prime Minister backs international airport for Alice. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Poppy is too prickly for public servants. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rubbing shoulders with sport stars. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Work for the dole: How to get it right. INTERVIEW by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Walking barefoot. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Talking about health. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Henley on Todd: No Pimms but lots'a VB. Report by ELISABETH ATTWOOD.
Letters to the Editor.
Westies take Rules flag. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Sunny netball victors. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Clouded vision needs spring cleaning. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
The dimming of the flame. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1133
Sept 15, 2004.
Aldermen baulk at being gagged by media policy. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Timor trip no holiday. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Tales of a tall ship sailor. Report by ANAND MARSH.
Black housing under Latham: more money but tougher rules. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aussie Hip Hop. Report by JULIA WINTERFLOOD.
Playful Alice rendez-vous. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Light weight on the scales of justice. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Magpies swoop to win: Saints go marching out. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Vikings soccer winners. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Is work really worth it? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Feeling connected. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1132
Sept 8, 2004.
Town council killed off visionary CBD scheme. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What will have to give if council rates won't rise? Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Council split again. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Happy snaps and no hard answers. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The kids the commissioner didn't want to talk about. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Aboriginal joint venture to snare high fliers.
Colour sings at Desert Mob. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Music to survive. Report by JULIA WINTERFLOOD.
Plain ignorance or pure arrogance? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Going the way of the Italians. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
LETTERS: Sneaky decision exposed.
Rugby: West wrest flag off Vikings. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rules: Pioneers to get double chance. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer: Feds blast into grand final. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1131
Sept 1, 2004.
Civic centre goes ahead as aldermen flip in vote. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Leaks: Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Protecting our children: what point in new laws? Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
We use our hands to make an operation on the body. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
It's fun being on the town council - well, sometimes. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Getting self esteem behind bars. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Around the world in 800 days. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Batting for Venus. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
The eagle and 20% discount. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
More stay with booze battle. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Pollies into the ring.
Rules: And then there were four. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Sundowners' golden era. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer: Vikings for grand final. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1130
August 25, 2004.
Secret report: Cheap civic centre option. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Homebirthers expecting to go underground? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Insurance would cost three times their pay.
Extending the life of objects and ideas over a short black. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Will 'mainstreaming' black funding work? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Saving Yeperenye Shopping Centre? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Lingiari needs a level playing field: COMMENT by Warren Snowdon MHR.
Make Alice Springs solar centre: Greens.
Just a few bullet points. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Craft connection battles flu. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Souths score. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Vikings seal soccer premiership. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1129
August 18, 2004.
New council office not yet a certainty. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Mining projects advance but rail, port lagging behind. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
If I were the Prime Minister. OPINION by SENATOR NIGEL SCULLION.
LETTERS: Unreasonable expediency on Civic Centre.
Justice sometimes gets the good guys. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Biker Paul beats midlife blues.
New arrival connects with Culture in Alice. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Threadpetal year. Walk in the bush with MEG MOONEY.
Ways to traverse Tanami. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Not carping about buffel. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
BMX will be red hot. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: Fierce finals flame. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer: Prime Cut deny top guns Verdi minor premiership. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1128
August 11, 2004.
Old Timers treasures. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sacred sites in Territory parks: access is no worries, says Toyne.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lingiari, where the dole rules. Snapshot by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Thumbscrews: We quizz Territory pollies.
LETTERS: Bushlight shows 'respect and interest'.
Builders come back: Minister's invitation. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Show, don't tell. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
It'll never catch on in the Alice! COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Race honours killed stalwart. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer: Early goals fire up the underdogs. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: Eagles and Roos try harder: finals loom. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1127
August 4, 2004.
Mt Sonder ban "lifted". Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sacred sites must be on the table. Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mean streets of Alice. Report by TYRONNE SWIFT.
Calling 000.
Driving school behind bars. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
To China with love. Part Two of a Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
A day in my life in China. By DARCY DAVIS.
School shock wearing off. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
The Games will have to wait. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
LETTER: In defence of public housing tenants.
Soccer: Vikings thrash the former stars. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: Rovers trounced! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1126
July 28, 2004.
Catch ATSIC plunderers, says commissioner. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Voyages in push for the top spot. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Mt Sonder ban - some answers, more questions.
ATSIC's solar millions: they came and they went. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Bushlight replies.
Skills learned in Centre help Ann to help China. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
On top of the world. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Tourist dollar takes a ride. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Aussie Rules: Win by playing to the whistle! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer: Goal spree yields final four. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1125
July 21, 2004.
Mt Sonder row dims hopes for parks strategy. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
CLP response not much help, either.
Bass In The Dust: Superjesus to hit Alice.
Oil royalties short-paid? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sewage: Recycled in underground Todd River. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Fence as art: hills in steel. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Frosty footie warms hearts. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer: Vikings go on the rampage. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Departures and arrivals. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Feed the man meat. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1124
July 14, 2004.
A pipeline to where? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Afghan connections.
How bright is Bushlight? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Street kids move needs streamlining: Minister. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Toyne wants tough 'learn or earn' welfare reforms. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Reg Smith: Vale to a great citizen of Alice.
Letter: Buffel grass 'a miracle plant'.
Possum for Araluen.
Aussie Rules: Demons rise from dead. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Once invincible Verdi cop second defeat. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
In the bus lane to heaven. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Alice's users and its used. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1123
July 7, 2004.
Ban on climbing West Macs icon? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
CATIA wants more access, the CLP says disclose sacred sites.
Alice loses $1m a week. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Been there, done that but Show still a hoot! By TYRONNE SWIFT.
Bull prices hit record.
Who'd want to be a show bag lady? Report by JACQUI CHLANDA.
No question, she's a champion!
Centre smiles after rains. Report by MEG MOONEY.
Aussie Rules: Country cousins claim challenge. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Soccer kings have first defeat. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
LETTERS: Let cattle eat buffel.
All play and no work. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
You are in Alice now! COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1122
June 23, 2004.
Camp health hazard: council is "powerless". Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Losing the fire in the belly or finding feet with the process? Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Buffel worry in US, Rock.
Alderman is living next door to Alice.
LETTERS: Trees lost.
Fred Williams: A harsh land. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Aussie Rules: Bloods boil. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Soccer: Half-way heaven for leaders Verdi. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Social climbing Eastside sport. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Green slave or queen of white goods? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1121
June 23, 2004.
Crunchtime for buffel eradication. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New offices an Alice act of faith. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Desert 'brand' worth millions. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Norforce is army's eyes and ears. Report by TYRONNE SWIFT.
Braham in coward's castle. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Soccer: Veni vidi Verdi. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Two wins on the trot for Edging Around. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Roos bounce but Eagles pounce! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Black art shines on Araluen's birthday. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
No fight over discounts. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Not a hick town with tumbleweed. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1120
June 16, 2004.
Government oil deal: we lose out. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Finke: Fellows flies. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Darren Griffiths, the gentleman. COMMENT by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Business leader calls for hot line to dob in Alice litter bugs. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal company: Ambitions to build on. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Racing: Oldfield has field day. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Our claypans and hills: Take a walk on the wild side. Report by MEG
MOONEY.
LETTERS: And now ... Lake Nonsense.
The trouble with desert shades. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Mum and wife, who are you? COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Issue 1119
June 9, 2004.
Faction clash set to start? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Jury out on tour pitch. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Drugs: a breakthrough or another piece of paper? Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Len Kittle: Farewell to a pioneer.
LETTERS: Crime stats - police seem to pick and choose which offences
get included.
Homer 'who never sells' does - after thirty years. Review by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Finke Desert Race to blast off on weekend. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Life isn't a dress rehearsal. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
Bullies no match for Troy. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Eagles perch at top with Bloods. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Darwin campaign right on target. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Vikings give the Strikers a lesson. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1118
June 2, 2004.
Tourism: wake up! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Hunt for sniffer rapists. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
POLICE MEDIA LOG: Friday, May 28, 2004. Sniffers Arrested.
NT crime stats don't match national ones: handy to bamboozle the
public. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Frances' legacy goes on in her favourite community park. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Imparja's ATSIC millions in doubt. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA: Alice vs. Darwin Budget - there's a sting in
the tail.
LETTERS: Whiskey is for drinking, but water is for fighting.
A song changed his life. PROFILE by KIERAN FINNANE.
New columnist is romancing The Alice. COLUMN by VIKTORIA CORMACK.
The pain of rain falls always on the plain! COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Verdi put to the test. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Turn-up for the bookies! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Weather cold but Bloods on the boil. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1117
May 26, 2004.
Council cash for gaol? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
"Itinerant" Wayne wants the top job. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council must lift its game: CATIA. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council - Tangentyere memorandum: Making Alice Springs a better town?
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: $10m Civic Centre: 2020 hindsight?
'What they need is love'. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Getting into strife.
Soft fruit not for throwing at town council candidates. COLUMN by STEVE
FISHER.
Great fan of Central Australia: Will Ann Cloke be back?
Pioneer take the rains. COMMENT by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Weather stops final for 'raining' champ Bosio. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
A torrent of goals. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1116
May 19, 2004.
Budget goodies.
Jobs worth their weight in gold. SPECIAL REPORT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Candidate says: I've done time. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Youth hang on for a hang-out. Report by JULIA WINTERFLOOD.
Drop CATIA: mayoral candidate. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Kilgariff wants OK for civic centre. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Dry year and few flowers, but now an autumn of butterflies. Report by
MEG MOONEY.
Reel sex and violence. Report by TYRONNE SWIFT.
CLP pinched my lake idea, says Des Rogers. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Ann Cloke leaves: Eastside in mourning.
Productivity is a fishbowl full of treacle. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Soccer our sleeping giant. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Lack of balance just a big yawn! COMMENT by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Roos bounce back as Eagles dive. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1115
May 12, 2004.
Politically incorrect! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New aldermen: $8m plans for Civic Centre may get chop. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Candidate says: I've done time. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Numbers tell the truth of warm in tummy politics! COMMENT by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Social lobby wants action not inquiries.
Alice gets soccer crumbs. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
CSIRO to advise on underground sewerage storage.
Alice drug scene: how it works. Report by TYRONNE SWIFT.
Kids on the streets. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Turn the town to the Todd. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Spicing up live music. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Learning lessons of life. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Give me back my phone! COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Aussie Rules: One sided matches. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Farcical football.
Greatest game of all is finding its feet. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1114
May 5, 2004.
After ATSIC, what? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Work for the dole: Silent Syd scurries. Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What Syd Stirling's boss says.
Farm boy's heart still beats in CLP Leader. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sniffer onslaught: Alice ill prepared. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Telstra aims for some great Australian bytes. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cup an all Alice affair. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: Leaders whitewash battlers. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
A shock to the system. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Sealing and selling the outback. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Issue 1113
April 28, 2004.
Aboriginal health service: Massive surplus. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice needs a lake, says ATSIC man. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Larapinta housing land: A missed chance? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Native title deal won't drop prices.
LETTERS: Critics - grist to my mill.
Art from Centre in top Vienna gallery. STORY and PHOTOS by ALFRED
PRUCKNER.
Nowhere to hide when Alice's radar zeroes in. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Death of first time sniffer: call for a coronial inquest. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Raelene Brothers lose the Blues. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bashed: one boy's story. By JOSH D AMDAHL.
Aussie Rules: Solid win for Feds. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Duchovny shapes up for Cup. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Alice Springs comings and goings. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
They are all at sea! COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1112
April 21, 2004.
Do it yourself embezzlement investigation? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Run education like a business, says report. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Vandalism: who are the victims? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Blockies say no to housing proposal. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourism figures: Commission coy. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Why spend a fortune on the civic centre?
LETTERS: Choose council candidates carefully.
Booze crims: group wants forced rehab.
Victory for Bromley - and common sense.
Underage drinking: How much is too much? Report by TESSA
GEOGHEGAN-JAMES.
Taylor & Taylor, painters. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Renaissance of Hermannsburg school: art has saved their lives. Review
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Roos: First blood. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Delway takes the big bucks. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Clever gadgets that drive you mad. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Sniffing, grog: What's your point? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Issue 1111
April 14, 2004.
Visitors number down by quarter. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Prop clear! Gyrocopter nationals in Alice.
Bush health: Two degrees not enough! Report by COURTNEY WHITMAN.
Desert professionals help Mongolians survive snow. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS: No funds? Local nurses suffering.
Keep the change. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Youth Suicide: All you love. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Rules Carnival: Pioneer reclaim premier position. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Young guns set to blaze away. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1110
April 7, 2004.
Soccer heist: cops mum. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice architect: scrap plans for civic centre. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
New CDU fees blow to trade apprentices. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Ald. Corby, Jefford hide from questions. Report by COURTNEY WHITMAN.
Centre for Remote Health: World's best practice right here in Alice.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Centre for Remote Health: Former cleaner is now doing Master's degree.
Report by COURTNEY WHITMAN.
Desert poser to desert loser. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Substance abuse in The Alice. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
The smell of leather. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Lorna makes goal shooting look easy. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Big fields, better races. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1109
March 31, 2004.
Tourism advert campaign: Rock shoot called off. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Year 12 rankings are not the main game, says boss of uni. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Business in Alice: Beating the slump. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Sex pix, another view.
Birth of a style. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Feds win after 10 years. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: A cut above the rest. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Bank can make queue disappear. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Perceptions, celebrations. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Issue 1108
March 24, 2004.
Roads money doubts. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
School sex pix set off uproar. Report by JULIA WINTERFLOOD.
Land: more good news. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hero worship. Report by COURTNEY WHITMAN.
Forster nails Wests' coffin. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
The luck of the Irish. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
LETTERS: Knockers go home.
Fragments over the garden fence. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Migrants to stop population decline? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Issue 1107
March 17, 2004.
Housing land: breakthrough. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Commerce leaders in jobs drive. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
I love a sunburnt carpark. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
'First nations' integration.
Class Clowns in a class of their own. Review by JULIA WINTERFLOOD.
Feds beat Wests to head for cricket final. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Warriors take union flag. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Serious art at Alice's university. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Will all bright sparks stand up? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Are your offspring positive? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1106
March 10, 2004.
Alice wish list secret. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Where is tourism really at?
Library in cross fire as council offices set to go ahead. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Crunch time in bush chance for Maisie? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Let's own our problems and stop the whinging. Report by COURTNEY
WHITMAN.
Footy boss backs another winner! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Azaria still with us. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Your Oscar is in the mail. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
40 years, still dreaming. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1105
March 3, 2004.
Hostel in CBD to cut back illegal camping. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Finke race gets government money.
Stress down, performance up at Alice Springs High. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Alice Ð a stagnating or happening little town?
Racing: Babouchke is the word. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Raps with the brotha-boys. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Being without paranoia. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Absence makes the heart desperate. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1104
February 25, 2004.
Latham: Mark my words! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Who will pay $2m hospital repairs? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Were rail funding promises broken? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The road lobby failed truckies.
Teens take politics seriously. Report by JULIA WINTERFLOOD.
Birds under lock and key.
Mount Kosciusko is a park without paranoia. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cricketers jinxed again at Traeger. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Astute trainer razor sharp. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
LETTERS: Controlling litter, liquor & camping: It's all much, much
too hard!
Where's the Ghan bonanza? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Mars probe veers to Red Centre. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1103
February 18, 2004.
Town council shirks the big challenges. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Centre's shapes and colours give CBD a big lift. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Old Ghan needs new head of steam. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Cranking up the knowledge trade. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Coniston: Can we make a judgment? Part Eighteen and last of a Feature
by DICK KIMBER.
Come and talk to us, say aldermen. Profile by COURTNEY WHITMAN.
Top Oz gigs for Araluen.
Just reward for Queen's Image. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Feds let RSL off the hook. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rules to get a new look. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
From camel camp to castle. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
I'm leaving town. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Give us a break. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1102
February 11, 2004.
Make housing blocks without native title consent: CLP call. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council candidate's vision for the town he cannot see. Profile by
COURTNEY WHITMAN.
Conventions tumble as govt. aims to build a future in the bush. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Constable Murray, Stafford and others saw that vengeance was done:
Many blacks were shot. Part Seventeen of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
Frontrunners still dominate Pioneer Park. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
From camel camp to castle. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Steiner School's Mission Impossible. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Must see and do's in Alice Springs. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Did Xmas mark birth of Steve Waugh? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1101
February 4, 2004.
Private, public schools: Alice debate hotting up. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Do-it-yourself tourism pitch.
Humid weather will go. Report by GLENN MARSHALL, Centre for Sustainable
Arid Towns.
Education Department bosses under investigation go on long leave.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Conservative aldermen say: Council gets mushroom treatment on land
talks. Report by COURTNEY WHITMAN.
Baloney, says Toyne.
Bucks to whip nags into action. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Life after getting funded. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
All of old George's friends and relatives were shot. The only survivor
was George. Part Sixteen of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
Principle bites the bulldust. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Oh, no. Easter next long weekend! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Issue 1046
December 17, 2003.
Council elections 2004: Will Fran stand again? Report by COURTNEY
WHITMAN.
The politics of sex. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Pine Gap: Peaceniks on warpath.
Christmas at Sweet Angel Mine. A tale by LINDSAY JOHANNSEN.
Challenge of sport goes on in 2004. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
LETTER: Inquiry - truth is needed.
1929 whitewash: "The shooting was justified". Part Fifteen of a Feature
by DICK KIMBER.
Culture of confusion seals backpackers' fate. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1045
December 10, 2003.
Housing land deals now: call by native title holder. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Bushfires are the top NT polluter. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Perth woman will head Education Dept. probe. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Inquiry - truth is needed.
'They never got off their horses. They shot them down in cold
blood.' Coniston Massacre. Part Fourteen of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
Another year in paradise. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Getting ready for Santa. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Cricket: Score sheets can be deceiving. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Festive spirit. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Kids' classic. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1044
December 3, 2003.
Education Minister orders enquiry into his department. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Another teacher is dumped on education department's scrap heap. Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
A local industry is born. Report by COURTNEY WHITMAN.
Symposium: It's time for your two bobs' worth! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
A place for poetry. Review by RUSSELL GOLDFLAM.
"Was ever a battle fought in which 17 were hit and all died?" The
Coniston Massacre. Part Thirteen of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
Cricket: Works, Demons with ease. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
The Festive Season: Goodwill and gadgets. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Who are the "prosperous"? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Issue 1043
November 26, 2003.
Education Dept. new allegations: lives shattered, money squandered.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
ATSIC commissioner keeps the story to herself. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Govt. says it's time to get cattle out of West MacDonnells park. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ayers Rock jobs: who's right? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Archives: the mystery lies inside it.
Little girls captured: "Don't let us go. He will shoot us as he did the
others." Part Twelve of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
It's a family affair. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The season for picking. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Rugby: Diehards in action. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Alice horses impress in Adelaide and Melbourne. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1042
November 19, 2003.
Big slice of housing money for Aboriginal training scheme. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tribal law rules only when it fits criminal code. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Gap year: relieve pressure, earn dollars. Report by JOHANNA CASTLES.
"Did they shoot in self-defence?" "No! They shot 'em like a dog." Part
Eleven of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
LETTERS: Education administrators: use by date expired.
Council returns fire on sacking demands.
Actions and consequences. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Do you have short legs? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Cricket: Wests bounce back. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rugby: You wouldn't believe the quinella. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Scotro scorches. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Palestine's echo in our world. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1041
November 12, 2003.
Education department shafts its star principal. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Desert Knowledge: Friendly but competitive. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Get a job' council workers tell bosses. Report by COURTNEY WHITMAN.
'Bush builder' sale goes well.
Celebrating 1903.
Grog running: 21 arrests in Western Desert. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
"I shot the Aboriginal who was standing over me, in the head. The
others were still belting me." Part Ten of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
A dish too far. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Exposed by my own mates! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Alice festival was a pearler. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Rugby: Injuries, obligations affect game. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
What a run feast in cricketing paradise. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1040
November 5, 2003.
Native title in chaos. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
There's only one law, says retiring Chief Justice. Interview by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Connected with Alice ... and the Base. Art review by KIERAN FINNANE.
"Old Murray mob shot the wrong man". Part Nine of a Feature by DICK
KIMBER.
Anti social behaviour, Pommy style. COLUMN by STEVE ggER.
Woolly issues. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Federal on top of the Wozzer. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Eagles cannot be written off. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Dead heat and upheld protest. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Time with her characters. FILM REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1039
October 29, 2003.
Rock claim will set native title agenda for Australia. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Year 12 exams: Biting nails. Report by JOHANNA CASTLES.
Feds reduce Araluen funds. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Wounds are as fatal as being killed on the spot. Part Eight of a
Feature by DICK KIMBER.
This age of reason. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Making your heart leap. COLUMN by STEVE gER.
Rugby: the game not score matters. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cricket on top pitches. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Razor Sharp wins 3. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Film talks tough. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1038
October 22, 2003.
Footy legend to be classroom magnet. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Wild West welcomes cops from two states. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Still no land for school, here in our desert town. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Girls invade college, bash student.
Wilson warns: Chuck him down spear! No more you can beat him ripulla
point 303! Part Seven of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
Bye, Bryn. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Arnie for Chief Minister. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
(S)mall movements. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Lusty lofts run fest. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
No moody filly. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1037
October 15, 2003.
Lesson from Rock no encouragement for NT parks deal. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Govt. spend on par with CLP. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bloody good drinkers. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Saving Great Apes.
Needed: common sense. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Coniston Massacre: Posse starts its murderous work. Part Six of a
Feature by DICK KIMBER.
Bad conduct: ref walks. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Three year olds enter the ring. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Party fun, but what if gate crashers storm the joint? Review by JOHANNA
CASTLES.
City? Give me the bush, any day! Profile by KIERAN FINNANE.
Ted Egan's big heart, keen mind. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
In our own backyard. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
When one thing leads to another. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Issue 1036
October 8, 2003.
Government spend: Up or down? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alcohol control: 0ne more shout. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bromley bear bites back. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What a drama! Review by JOHANNA CASTLES.
Centre's rough frontier justice: Revenge murder, wrong man dies. Part
Five of a Feature by DICK KIMBER.
Santa Teresa community: Making the Gospel their own. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Small inside. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Of travelling and things. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Racing spring in the air. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1035
October 1, 2003.
New calls for Todd dam. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Junk turns a dollar. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Peter Toyne, Member for Cyberspace.
Coniston Massacre: "I told them to scatter". Part Four of a Feature by
DICK KIMBER.
Letters: ERA president no 'high priest'.
The other side of Territory Inc. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Time for reflection. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Cricket moving to next level. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing's real issues. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1034
September 24, 2003.
Pollies love the railway - but cannot say what it will carry. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Stop thief - girl aged 12. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Park deal will work with good will: tourism lobby. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Fred Brooks' killing sparked the massacre. Part Three of a Feature by
DICK KIMBER.
Alice ... town of romance and surprise. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Swimming against the tide. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Rules grand final: No room in this year's stew! Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1033
September 17, 2003.
Public housing is a battle field. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Black - white deal between native title holders and town council.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
READER FORUM: Don't talk down our town: Toyne.
Craig Mathewson: Baring the soul. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Real True History: Tensions rise as land is parched. Part Two of a
Feature by DICK KIMBER.
Thomas goes to Tennant. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Outback towns: food for thought. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Go west young man! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Aussie Rules and grog rules.
Issue 1032
September 10, 2003.
Lim hits out at government over land, Darwin focus. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
How Lim got there. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Snob Hill land deal rejected. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Real True History: The Coniston Massacre. Part One of a Feature by DICK
KIMBER.
A weekend in Sadadeen. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Home and away. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Eagles to grand final. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Front runners make every post a winner. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1031
September 3, 2003.
Burke clings to job. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Opposition Leader trouble magnet. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Eastside project: range war looms. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Home truths at festival launch. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Angry Arab and naughty Ken: Alice students in national movie awards.
Elder says education is 'great'. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Mouths wide shut. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Getting personal. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Roos set to take it to the Eagles. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Darwin heroes now bolster fields in Alice. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1030
August 27, 2003.
Call for Alice study: infants' brains damaged by booze? Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert's treasures. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Unemployment solutuions: Syd Stirling silent. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Terminally ill kids: Three made a wish.
Artists reject ATSIC money. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Munchy mutt makes off with molars. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
The A List: it's tough at the top. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
A stone's throw from nowhere. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Eagles off to the big one. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Sleepovers: a way of life in Alice. Report by LINDA HUGHES.
Issue 1029
August 20, 2003.
Unemployment: NT nation's basket case. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Buyer of sewer plant water revealed. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Feral doves: Coo coo off! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Self drive boom as tourists stay in Oz.
Festival: Letting the garments shine. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Springs' missed opportunities. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Ann, the writer some love to hate.
Drugs: falling off the rails. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Greener people on the other side of the fence. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Suffer the little children. Historical Feature by JOSE PETRICK.
Rugby: Vikings pillage 3rd grand final. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rules: The end is nigh. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Liking your job - or not. Report by LINDA HUGHES.
Don't let painting die. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1028
August 13, 2003.
Festival chiefs, aldermen clash over council money. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Land push to south of The Gap. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTER: Youth Night Patrol a glorified taxi.
Loving Alice: being cruel to be kind. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
It's a deal, kids. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Aussie Rules: Boys from bush back in town. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rugby: Titjikala traveller strikes gold. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Massimo Palombo: Engaging experiment. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1027
August 6, 2003.
Street kids experiment. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Garden show has a tinge of sadness. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Why World Vision treats Papunya like it does Africa. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
History treasures back on view. Report by JOSE PETRICK.
Skating leaves the rest in the shade. Report by LINDA HUGHES.
They loved our great rail journey. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
If The Hulk came to Alice Springs. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Eagles swoop over the 'roos. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1026
July 30, 2003.
Elferink revives debate on cattle station freehold title. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Local "found metal" art heads for Sydney. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Family Court is now part of life in Centre. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Plenty to do in Alice. Report by LINDA HUGHES.
Three cheers for the quiet non-achievers. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
In new campaign Alice is not so hot. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Super Roos slip into finals gear. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Top End gold for Centre steeds. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Centre's 'enormity' overpowers artist. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 1025
July 23, 2003.
Bush block battle on the Eastside. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Art centre near Alice Springs will vie for recognition, tourist dollar.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog trial: Give our families fair go. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
A town with a big heart. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Historian puts into print tales 'Bungalow' guide. Report by DOROTHY
GRIMM.
The greatest game of all: two decades full of rugby thrills (Part 2).
Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Top Dogs learn from experience. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
We are NOT materialistic? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Will all of the Territory soon be off limits? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Firestick dreaming art kindles interest. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1024
July 16, 2003.
500 blocks at White Gums? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Majority ignored in liquor decision. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Springs News editorial office gutted by fire.
On the road again: accessible tour firm. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Ambitions as big as their country. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The backhoe of beyond. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Dave's gone fishing, Ann's left pondering. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
40 years of the greatest game of all (Part 1). Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: Top teams take points and percentage. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Alice festival coup.
Issue 1023
July 9, 2003.
CLP revolt: Denis in the lions' den. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lending tour industry a hand, but won't play a leading role: council.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sale of cattle at show better than expected.
Congress allegations. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
'Twinkletoes' Peckham: You'd reach out to catch him and he slipped
away. Obituary by DICK KIMBER.
LETTERS: Bromley bear and knotted knickers.
Issue 1022
July 2, 2003.
The Show: Alice, we're ready for you! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Port wine will be on agenda of liquor boss. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Alice was let down by poor grog trial report: Congress.
Alice National Trust says: We'll survive! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Hold the line, please: Pollies in phone feud.
Blood on our hands: the debate.
The days of tribal law are over.
Health and tax dollars behind a wall of silence. COMMENT by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Beanies an industry! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Council rates - Alice Springs is better off than Top Enders.
Issue 1021
June 25, 2003.
SARS biggest tourism disaster ever: operator. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
CLP row: three quit. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
No requirement to publish financial reports: Congress. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Rotarian gets a top honour. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
New heritage group popular. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Grog trial report fair.
Plenty of room to swing a cat. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
What you see is what you get! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Issue 1020
June 18, 2003.
War over gullies. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Wanting to see the back of Burke. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Job focussed studies. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Ireland and the NT: a lot in common?
Stop sewage project, say residents. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Our future movie moguls? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Those were the days, my friend. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Lazy weekends and stupid stats. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Issue 1019
June 11, 2003.
Tourists get bargains as town is half empty. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bureaucrats sat on hands as drinking port skyrocketed. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Land council causes strife in native title land development. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Crime: Govt. again claims a big victory.
Govt. scheme to move itinerants under attack.
Centre artists a hit in Austria. Report by FRED PRUCKNER.
LETTER: Paperwork takes place of container deposit law.
A little bit of heart and soul. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Taking care of business. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Burrows the Desert King for 5th time. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Last Saturday's racing: showcase of a strong club. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Every photograph a human moment. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1018
June 4, 2003.
Black health organisation ripping off the taxpayer? Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Most want alcohol restrictions to stay. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1017
May 28, 2003.
NT Budget: Film and TV office for Alice.
Law and order: police has say. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Crime statistics may come under Auditor General. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Who's doing what for young people? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Living in a concrete desert ... or is it stony? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Lacking bite but politically correct. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
95 and a lot to do. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTER: Old Timer Dave Baldwin on 'crime' in Alice.
From little things, big things grow. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
A winning streak for front runners. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Souths put spark back in. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1016
May 21, 2003.
Local government plans sound great but there's no money. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Public cash for private clinic: doctor hits out. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Great Alice novel waiting to be written. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Chilpies get gong for service. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Time for a localised Alice. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Blame stress. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Questions kept coming: Do you live in houses? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Beaten - but not a whitewash. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Tim hotwires baskets. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1015
May 14, 2003.
Blood on our hands. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Crime stats: Martin canes pollies, then blocks query. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Services let down a man in the horrors. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Doctor flies high in 75th year. (Advertising Supplement)
Scullion on nuclear waste, the GG and the war. Interview by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Have we got a place for you! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Music turned up. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Government procrastinates on container deposit laws. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Footy: A good feel day. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1014
May 7, 2003.
Crime rally: no answers. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bring in the cane for pollies? Report and Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Celebrity victim story raises questions of police response. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Biggest show in town could be looking down the barrel. Report by
DOROTHY GRIMM.
Cheapskate grog survey ignores the 'phoneless'. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Just a few questions... COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Commitment. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Booze measures: What's the Opposition on about?
Racing: Catriona Queen of the Alice Springs Cup. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: The time has come for change. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1013
April 30, 2003.
Government money for Alice. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
SARS, war hammer tourism.
Volunteer firies will ask for a better deal. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Flats fight: who's right? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The crime of statistics. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Stuck in Rock traffic. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Crime statistics Advocate style.
Cait Wait's paintings: Story about grog. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Living with dragons. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Close match kicks off the Aussie Rules competition. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Class on track. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1012
April 23, 2003.
Crime rally "the biggest lie": Toyne. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Keeper of Newhaven sanctuary is dumped. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
ATSIC: "pet programs" a myth. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
At war on Anzac Day Opposing views of two Viet Vets. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Senator Scullion on Australia's role in Iraq. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Politics all about money? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Innermost thoughts turning warm, fuzzy. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Country teams make history. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Big card sets scene for Cup. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Alice Prize: Seduction veils complex questions. Review by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 1011
April 16, 2003.
Rail freight: No bookings. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Heritage revolt. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alcohol measures: It's crunch time. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cleaning up Alice Springs! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Up the garden path. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Sewage plant: Huge neglect? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Nature and humour in craft show. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Cooking outback style: uni's push for business. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Racing hits big time. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: McAdam against McAdam. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
French skating cool. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 1010
April 9, 2003.
Alcohol abuse strategy: We are drinking more! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Skaters: talking it over. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
NT University forum: War a threat to Territory's relationship with
northern neighbours.
Alice summer start in two vans, no aircon, little English and bags
missing. BOOK REVIEW by KIERAN FINNANE.
Wake up and smell the desert roses. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Don't mention the war! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Grog: no shame in admitting the problem, says letter writer Betty
Pearce.
They are winners!
Brothers battle in buggies.
Racing: 2-year-olds parade. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules again. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1009
April 2, 2003.
Housing blocks: which way? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Art space for Alice.
Alice's homegrown nurses. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Disabled: They can do it! Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Sustainable development: how do we get it? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Change ticket when life turns to pasta. COLUMN by STEVE gER.
Cricket: RSL take the flag. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Scotro scorches track, Nappa tested. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Distance can be a blessing. By JULIA WINTERFLOOD.
Anthony not fazed by national stage. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Getting ready for the Territory's top craft show. Report by DOROTHY
GRIMM.
Issue 1008
March 26, 2003.
$20,000 housing blocks? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Our Mayor's many hats. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Four day pub ban stayed by regulator.
Permits to buy grog 'might slow people down on drinking'. PART TWO of a
report by KIERAN FINNANE.
What Joe Millionaire would find in Central Australia. COLUMN by STEVE
FISHER.
'Out of Africa'. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
LETTERS: Honest John on Pine Gap.
Cricket: Class will tell. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Cup hopefuls are facing up. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1007
March 19, 2003.
Freedom of speech stops right here. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Crime statistics are unclear. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Drop in crimes against persons.
Honouring Aboriginal entrepreneurs. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Class struggle: Review of education. PART TWO of a report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Seeking South Africans to plug skill shortages. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
How breaking up can break you up. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
LETTERS: Parliament needs to be briefed about Pine Gap, says Federal
Member.
Beer, blarney and betting at the park. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cricket at the business end of the season. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
What a drag without the drags. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1006
March 12, 2003.
60 blocks: government, native title holders strike deal.
Big win-win native title deal: No need for court. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
What marks for our schools? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Letter: Why and when should Rock be closed?
4WD around the bend. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The faster you go the behinder you get? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
"Can't kill a weed by taking off its top." Youth on war and peace. By
TASHKA URBAN.
Skaters stand their ground. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Skateboard riders just a soft target?
Roaring Harleys and wet T-shirts. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Five events in Tennant. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Young fun. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Wanted: One body. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 1005
March 5, 2003.
Port wine turns Alice valley into a living hell. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
NT Government sets sights on shoddy builders. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Insurance worries for after hours GPs. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Suburban nightmare. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Feeling faint from furious fast food fantasies. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Skating sensationalised?
What makes our economy tick.
Racing: Ben's bonanza. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Gwynne sets standard. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1004
FEBRUARY 26, 2003.
Black enterprises: Start from scratch. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
They are dead set on getting year 12. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
CBD skaterboys clash with police.
Frances Smith: Alice Springs was a home worth fighting for. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
The right to have your say. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Water just below the surface. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Warriors close gap on Devils. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Five in a row for Nappa. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Will rain stay away for Imparja Cup? Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1003
FEBRUARY 19, 2003.
Iraq rally says stay with UN. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Will Pine Gap compromise Alice Springs? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tourism: where to now?
Darwin vs Alice Springs: The movie. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Liquor commission hits Melanka, Todd Tavern.
Like it or not, behaviour still a worry. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Not a drama, please! COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
LETTERS: Tourism? Alice is a service town.
Racing: Big bucks are nigh. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cricket: One day result critical. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rugby: Eagles rule. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
On a tenner. Report by NIC WILES.
Issue 1002
FEBRUARY 12, 2003.
Girls get best marks. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Snow beats sand in tourism stakes. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bid to save Panorama Guth.
Recycling of effluent now investigated.
Behaviour: too much talk. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Empire building. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Europe on a shoestring. Part Two of a report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rollercoaster life at the wicket. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 1001
FEBRUARY 5, 2003.
Art money has yet to jump Berrimah wall. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
2003: The opportunities.
"Town Like Alice" in Wenten's eyes. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Cruising Europe: at home abroad. Part One of a report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
A slice of life. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
He resolved to live without resolution. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
LETTERS TO TE EDITOR: Swiss bank ad "no respect".
SPORT: Poignant pointer from Blues. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0946
DECEMBER 18, 2002.
IAD walks: gamble with millions from taxpayers. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
College and NT University merge. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Land development: Minister takes stand. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA (Part
Two).
Black training scheme: Not shame them? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Margaret OAM: from sand to canvas. Review by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Hope for 2003 - preparing for what lies ahead. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Can we change the default settings? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Fairy tale end to day at the Park. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0945
DECEMBER 11, 2002.
Macs park blaze: any victims could have sued government. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Group dumps desert project.
Sea change for town planning. COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Black training scheme: Not shame them? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice's Allan gets top award.
Federal Police probe voting allegations. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Just plonk it down anywhere. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Outback bereft? COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Fairy tale end to day at the Park. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rules: Time to decide! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Getting out of uniform. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0944
DECEMBER 4, 2002.
Govt. backs residents on rural real estate scheme. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Keeping the young out of courts, gaols. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Drought 'down south' could become a bonanza for cattle men in The
Centre.
Not a just war: Catholic priest. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Dedication to Cancer Council rewarded. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Remembering why we live in our dramatic centre. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
And now it's time for the (wrong) local news. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Camel numbers: time to bite the bullet. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Home grown international for Alice. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Their Miss Pink is way off track! Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Threat to program could increase crime.
Issue 0943
NOVEMBER 27, 2002.
Parks service fails to protect tourism icon. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Camel boom if we can slaughter them locally. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Editorial comment: Crime figures - who's right?
Street kids crime: Solution in sight? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Streetkids: Action needed, not bickering. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sometimes it's just too much all at once. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Trying to get a grip on things. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Rugby: Eagles lay a golden egg. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Racing: Lamprecht scoops the pool. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cricket: Green top up Fosters' alley. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Letters: Did Pine Gap warn us of the Bali bombing?
Issue 0942
NOVEMBER 20, 2002.
Big drop in crime. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Pies, shirts: traders back youth worker Eddie.
Juvenile programs work: Police chief.
The great Telstra debate: Snowdon vs Scullion.
Spin doctoring the swamp. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Why they came. Report by JENNIFER BARRETT.
Clickety-clique: Alice Balkan. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The best kept secret. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Bargain! COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Pioneer Park racing is in fine form. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Westies, Feds fall into holes. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Regal Eagles squash Kiwis. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Steve Hodder: Political spitter, hypocrisy hitter. Profile by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0941
NOVEMBER 13, 2002.
ATSIC votes buying claim. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Green light for container deposits? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aviation guru to takle flights fiasco. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Convention a boomer.
Nobody can hear you scream. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Trans Tasman relationships. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
32nd Alice Springs Prize: art judge and public are still on a different
wavelength. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Mixed conditions at Albrecht. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Kiwis show they are still in town! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Alice youngsters top writing competition.
Issue 0940
NOVEMBER 6, 2002.
Ayers Rock jobs farce. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Huge swing to Anderson in busy poll. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
NT poor cousin in council funds. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
300 rapes a year. Report by EMMA KING.
A textbook service. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Cup fever. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Black vs white law.
Fixing foxes. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice Prize: tough decisions. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Nick stays.
Big Mac sizzles in summer sun. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rugby back to business. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Dancing to Tokyo? Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0939
OCTOBER 30, 2002.
Parks: aiming for a deal. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cattle: lean times ahead. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Distance chintz. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
What a party! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
A legal bomb shell for NT parks. COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Punch just wasn't cricket! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Games now a great memory. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
'The first white man born.' Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0938
OCTOBER 23, 2002.
Empties refunds a goer? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Granites Gold Mine: Black job scheme that works. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Black law - next step. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Thank God for Pine Gap! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
An island in the sun, willed to me ... COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Sister Eileen: she's a legend! Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
LETTERS: Horror in Bali: My heart is with you!
'Can anyone write for a blackfeller?' Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Cricket: Feds on a roll. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0937
OCTOBER 16, 2002.
Deliberate fires burn vast areas. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Tour selling bodies combined, and will stay in govt. hands. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Harder test for Brolgas entries.
Managing black land. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Notorious Territory. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Clever house. COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Stop the world: I want to get on. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Flying into climate change. Report by DICK KIMBER.
Cricket: Early in-form birds pick up points. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Roger signs off ... with a try. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0936
OCTOBER 9, 2002.
Huge media coverage of Pine Gap protest. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Industry against proposal to privatise Tourist Commission marketing
arm. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Visitors to parks love most the 'sheer scale'. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Ecological subdivision? COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
A man of few words. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Dining with Tim. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Depression: Sarah's way back. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Rugby Union: A day in heaven. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Cellar dwellers down top dogs. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0935
OCTOBER 2, 2002.
Saving the bush. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Say but no vote for alcohol sellers on grog reform body. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Rabbit Flat publican loses gun licence and faces court charges. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Workshops minus overalls. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Keeping the Alice open for business. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
LETTERS: Ann getting under the skin ... again.
Rain then drought: tinderbox. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Furry friends: Chance of survival. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Taking in the art ... while taking the air. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Theatre takes to the hills. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0934
SEPTEMBER 25, 2002.
Tourist promo a worry, says CATIA. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
A quest to unravel Strehlow's mystery. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Strehlow: A 'rough and passionate' journey through Centre. KIERAN
FINNANE talks with biographer Barry Hill.
Self-reliant Alice rides car, tourism boom, says motor trader.
Desert Park - the brainy part. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Colourless characters need not apply. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Choking on coffee. COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Alice put on show. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Aussie Rules: After 20 years the cup runneth over. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
LETTERS: Bastardised replica of parody.
Big backing for Alice movie. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0933
SEPTEMBER 18, 2002.
The Centre needs better promotion. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Is Desert Park doing its job? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Forgettable culture. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Expose Pine Gap. COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Drifting from the Amazon to our own Todd River. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Shot in arm for Steiner School. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Prangs galore at roundabout.
Rodney Gooch: Devoted to bush art. OBITUARY.
Aussie Rules: Wests wind winnners. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
LETTERS: Qantas spurns Centre - MHR.
Demystifying Ted Strehlow. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0932
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002.
Central Land Council told to keep out of native title talks. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pine Gap in a troubled world. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Black tourism needs "certainty", says Minister.
Householders can do a lot for the environment. COLUMN by GLENN
MARSHALL.
A life in slides. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
That feeling of belonging. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Lutheran Mission, Albert Namatjira and hand-back: momentous events
remembered. Report by DORORTHY GRIMM.
Aussie Rules: Blockbuster at last for the Traeger troops. Report by
PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0931
SEPTEMBER 4, 2002.
ERWIN CHLANDA AND KIERAN FINNANE COVER THE FOUR DAY DESERT KNOWLEDGE
SYMPOSIUM:
Getting the people behind you.
Sewage plant water waste: Alice is ideal for recycling.
Have we got what it takes?
Nearly half the world's carpets come from a town like Alice.
Desert schmoozing.
What will she remember? Report by DICK KIMBER.
Whose brain is melting down? COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
All at sea after festival fever. COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Green cramming. COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Minister Ah Kit turned over new leaf, back to school at 27. Report by
DOROTHY GRIMM.
Gosh, it's a dog's world! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rules: only four left. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Desert Mob getting better every year. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0930
AUGUST 28, 2002.
A voice for the Desert. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
We'll make fest an international event for Alice, say organisers.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Council CEO row: Big mediation, little outcome. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Council alliance with native title holders.
Residents evacuated as bushfire encircles home.
Minister, school council mum over funding row.
Wherever you like. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
There's no place like The Alice! COLUMN by ANN CLOKE.
Taking John Howard for a walk in a wheelbarrow. COLUMN by GLENN
MARSHALL.
Don't scare the camels, Dave! Report by DICK KIMBER.
Rules: West home, but watch Eagles circling above! Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0929
AUGUST 21, 2002.
First Labor Budget: Bush does well but not much for Alice!
Doctor crisis in Centre. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Desert Knowledge: Big bucks from lateral thinking? Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
The drive-in circle of life. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The Last Camel Train: Reviving links. Report by DICK KIMBER.
Rules: moment of truth is near. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
In isolation, the past is your company. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0928
AUGUST 14, 2002.
Festival: hair it is. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Trouble makers off our streets. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Stink for five more years? COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Fresh start for grog 'rehab'
Walking through time: the Ghans return. Report by DICK KIMBER.
Rules: Bloods confident. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Shooting clubs right on target. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Bush bestseller may win top national book prize. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0927
AUGUST 7, 2002.
One fifth of our water lost. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Catching up with firebugs. Report by EMMA KING.
More Todd trees killed. COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Waiting for the bus. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Master passes on. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
When social work was still a do-it-yourself occupation. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
By George, it's history! Review by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Going bush: That time of the year again! By Guest Writer SIMON REU.
Take your trailer, but ... By Guest Writer JOL FLEMING.
Stars at Aussie Rules. By STEWART O'CONNELL.
Young Alice runners set for national competiton. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0926
JULY 31, 2002.
Hunt for land: go west, young man! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Rates up 2.4% but big cut for Todd Mall. Report by EMMA KING.
Woomera 'horror' spurs Alice woman into action. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Still no kerbside recycling. COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Backpackers' lot in The Alice. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Do it yourself verges, with a little help from the Alice town council.
Report by EMMA KING.
Reserves drama rocks Rules. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Netball titles at long last south of Berrimah Line! Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Albert Namatjira: Challenge to cliches. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: The 'cousins' have ganging up in The Alice for 30 years.
Issue 0925
JULY 24, 2002.
Lasseter's Casino turns 21: a win some, lose some story. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Govt sitting on its hands while skills shortage cripples Centre. Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
The logo and the dancing man. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Environment centres miss out on Landcare Council. COLUMN by GLENN
MARSHALL.
Cattlemen planting buffel grass while authorities still 'looking at
problem'. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Vale Bardius Goldberg.
The Bloods boil over shell-shocked Eagles. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Move over, World Cup winners! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Boat person in bathtub: Festival backs Red Dust. Preview by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0924
JULY 17, 2002.
Bashing fear: 'Cousins' hounding Alice teenager. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Buffel battle at Rock.
If life were like the movies... COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Weeds and culture on the Larapinta Trail. COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Desert Ignorance Inc.
Church a huge employer. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
She was mum and teacher to Alice's best known kids. Obituary by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Films in the heart: Alice produced TV drama about the Stolen
Generation. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Aussie Rules: Mixed grill at Traeger Park. Report by STEWART O'CONNELL.
Alice's own Lleyton? Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Library - it's still free! Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0923
JULY 10, 2002.
Funding fiasco. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog trial "encouraging" but disturbances are up. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Come and join us ... please! COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Will Territory get a drink container refund scheme? COLUMN by GLENN
MARSHALL.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Carney HIH levy claims - CLP would have hit us
twice as hard, says Toyne.
Two girls bring back rodeo to Alice. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
No mercy from Eagles firing in 2nd half. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Ponies are back! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Festival gets director, better late than never. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0922
JULY 3, 2002.
Kids out in the cold. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Jodeen v journo: a question and no answer game. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Our new top lady is black. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Environmental building ways soon to be law! COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL.
Proud of our huge back yard. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
The show everybody goes to. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Skate Park: It's sweet as! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Eagles fly into a cloud full of goals. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
New life for old art. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0921
JUNE 26, 2002.
Security at Alice airport: It's a joke. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Kids on our streets. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
English as a second language teachers: Every class should have one.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Solar plans a tall order for bush mob? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Why Cup fever hit Alice. COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
LETTERS: Dr Ted is on the right track.
Government funds feasibility study of 'niche' meat works in Alice
Springs.
How we could fix 'the problem'. COMMENT by TIM JENNINGS.
Dingoes on the run. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Thunder goes down to Centre's side. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Collecting more than art works. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0920
JUNE 19, 2002.
New abattoir answer to USA meat quotas? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Major Aboriginal owned tourism venture near Ayers Rock. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Dr Ted says we need education revolution.
Do fence me in! COLUMN by STEVE FISHER.
Target terrorism, not civil liberties. COMMENT by WARREN SNOWDON MHR.
Aussie Rules: It's on at Traeger Park. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Issue 0919
JUNE 12, 2002.
Turmoil at The Rock. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Solar power: big bucks vs little man. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Black school row to go on? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
March doubtful as premiums rise. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
New security laws won't take away our rights: Senator Scullion.
Burrows buries the bikes in bulldust! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: time to shine. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
LETTERS: Huge NT presence at global showcase.
Bindi Centre man's paintings bought by National Galleries. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Stretching out for Wolfgang! Review by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0918
JUNE 5, 2002.
Convention centre questions. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Location, location, location: Snob Hill block under hammer.
LETTERS: NT Government to act on grog, drugs and street kids, says
Toyne.
Principal struck by a council member: Yipirinye School allegation.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Growth spurt: gardening blossoms.
COLUMN by ANN CLOKE: Truth or dare.
Arts Festival? What festival? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Clare Martin's first task in politics: hanging on to a seat. Part Three
of a Profile by KIERAN FINNANE.
Finke: from mud to bulldust in whoops a tough national Off Road quest.
Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rules: The Eagles again! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Leave your baggage outside drama room! Preview by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0917
MAY 29, 2002.
Native Title: cautious OK from Mayor. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Foreign "illegals" brought in by tourism promoters. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL: How cool is our town?
COLUMN by ANN CLOKE: David's off into sunset.
Murray Neck: tough but always a gentleman (Part Two).
Ideals a family tradition for Clare Martin. Part Two of a Profile by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Meeting the real David Helfgott. By DARCY DAVIS.
3 bdrs, 2 bthrms, all new & just $117,000.
Yipirinya school "is not unsafe".
Push for health changes in bush started more than a decade ago. Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Aussie Rules: Bloods, Blues take points. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
The Finke: Power, professionalism and compromise! Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Artists make clothing for "real" people. Review by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0916
MAY 22, 2002.
Native title holders: tough message to trouble makers. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Health Minister targeted by Opposition. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
More Yipirinya School money queries.
COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL: Water waste no dry topic.
COLUMN by ANN CLOKE: Life's short but never predictable.
Murray Neck: His biggest move. Profile by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Netball courts to get face lift. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: Eagles plunder. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Sydney show for Napangardi. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0915
MAY 15, 2002.
Yipirinya school funds row. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Horticulture scheme "start" to fixing mess sewage disposal mess. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL: The nitty-gritty of water conservation in
Alice Springs.
Class act Clare Martin to woo Alice. Profile by KIERAN FINNANE.
Pollie - dealer shuts shop.
LETTERS: Liquor traders say give trial a fair go.
ANN CLOKE's COLUMN turns one year old.
Aussie Rules: Wests and Rovers go to the wire. Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
No prize for the winners. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Murder mother. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0914
MAY 8, 2002.
Some liquor traders 'pushing port'. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Modern sewage plant is on the back burner. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
COLUMN by ANN CLOKE: Waxing, waning and weaning of Alice moons.
COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL: Does global warming offer Alice an
opportunity?
Speedway: National showcase in The Centre. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rules arch rivals clash at Traeger. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Treasures for Alice: new craft. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Buzzing for safety.
Issue 0913
MAY 1, 2002.
Cloud over $10m Alice Desert Peoples Centre: IAD stays put. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Living with buffel for more than 40 years. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
COLUMN by ANN CLOKE: East - West connections.
COLUMN by GLENN MARSHALL: New world-class desert suburbs?
Go for Year 12 or go to work? Report by STEPHANIE HARRISON.
Racing: Young guns get glimpse of 'big one'. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aussie Rules: Back to grand old days.
Alice doco nominated for prize. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Nation's best craft works head for Alice. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0912
APRIL 24, 2002.
Night doctors: Clinics to join forces. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bush stores: 'Bookup' rip-off or blessing?
Toyne to act on dangerous people unfit for trial.
COLUMN by ANN CLOKE: Showcasing the Centre - painters, nature and rock
wallabies.
Centre for Remote Health: Out of the ivory tower, into the front line
of war on disease. (Advertising Supplement)
Centre for Remote Health: A house of ideas. (Advertising Supplement)
'Closing' Pine Gap. By guest writer SCOTT CAMPBELL-SMITH.
AUSSIE RULES: Roos and Bloods open on top. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
MARINA STROCCHI: Large format to catalogue bush. Review by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0911
APRIL 17, 2002.
Doctors' jobs are easier to fill out bush than in town. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Bush brawl hurts region: Pitjantjatjara organisations in vicious fight.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bicycles vs US Air Force Galaxy. By guest writer SCOTT CAMPBELL-SMITH.
Column by ANN CLOKE: Fares on Alice flights soaring high.
Footy: what lies ahead? Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Barry Hill: The poet and his bride, inland bound. Review by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0910
APRIL 10, 2002.
Back to drawing board for tourist commission. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Like booze, drugs will harm only few. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Aranda House youth refuge money queries.
111 Karen Silkwoods. By guest writer SCOTT CAMPBELL-SMITH.
Column by ANN CLOKE: Another outback mystery?
Aussie Rules: Saturday sirens sound! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Balgo: dreamtime plus. Preview by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0909
APRIL 3, 2002.
Alice just a poor cousin to booming Darwin Festival? Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Flagship black business coping with difficulties. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Youth refuge: getting it right the next time 'round? Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Column by ANN CLOKE: Todd Mall - bricks, bats and brickbats.
Knowledge 'sales' still down the track. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pine Gap: women's wrath hits spy base. By guest writer SCOTT
CAMPBELL-SMITH.
Choice, opportunity: great Easter sports! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Pioneer Park: curtain raised.
Mates with cake mark Iris' 85th. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0908
MARCH 27, 2002.
Desert Knowledge gets into top gear. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mining executive - business and Desert Knowledge.
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA: The dead hand of bureaucracy?
Convention centre hype precedes opening. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Youth refuge shut: where will kids go?
Native title body starts.
LETTERS: Ex-Senator slams Snowdon.
Column by ANN CLOKE: Expert opinion.
Pine Gap: To spy or not to spy. By guest writer SCOTT CAMPBELL-SMITH.
Cricket: Silverware for Bloods. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rugby: The Eagles lay the golden egg.
Alice blockbuster Jennifer Fallon. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0907
MARCH 20, 2002.
'Move rail yards' says town lobby. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mother of four, plus 70 or more. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
On the Record. Editor's Column.
Column by ANN CLOKE: Very disappointing visit to www.outback2002.com.au
CLP responds to Ah Kit plea. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Star Wars to bring back base foes. By guest writer SCOTT
CAMPBELL-SMITH.
Raising dust in the big smoke. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
CRICKET: Blue boys take a dive. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Rugby: The Eagles or the Devils?
Issue 0906
MARCH 13, 2002.
Gay fest boosts trade, community tolerance. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Snowdon's new demand on Pine Gap answers as major protest is planned.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
One more weekend in paradise: BBQ brekki with Lee and Norm! Column by
ANN CLOKE.
LETTERS: The Minister hasn't got it right!
It's almost impossible to find a functional community, says Territory
Minister.
Want to make a movie? Give it a go!
Douglas Pipe, a young man in a hurry! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Forget the hit and giggle, from now on it's for real! Report by PAUL
FITZSIMONS.
Runner Russ inspired by daughter.
Peer assessment: Artists to judge art. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0905
MARCH 6, 2002.
Town Council: And now, the Dismissal? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Town Council: What value election promises?
Black students: 40% and rising. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Restrictions will work: Liquor Commissioner. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
NSW report shot in the arm for container deposit lobby. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
February rain. Column by ANN CLOKE.
LETTERS: Noel Pearson has the courage to say how it is.
Expo 2002: Economy - steady as she goes.
Alice play shocks at Adelaide Fest. Report by DARYL GRAY.
Planning a show? We'll help!
Cricket: Four chase ace! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
RUGBY: Eagles are lifting off!
Issue 0904
FEBRUARY 27, 2002.
Report canes council: Deputy Mayor still defiant. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
$15 a night travellers still flocking to The Alice.
Drinking, not hunting now main "cultural obligation". Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Out of Alice experience. Column by ANN CLOKE.
A new life for historic home. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Planters turn 30. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Helping Alice's bright into uni. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Kit hepls primary school kids to understand people from afar. Report by
DOROTHY GRIMM.
Storm in town pool.
Rain turns cricket into a real fizzer! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Music makes maths marvels. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0903
FEBRUARY 20, 2002.
Alice heritage group vies for a bigger role. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
SPECIAL REPORTS AND COMMENT ON ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR:
Noted anthropologist calls for massive change. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
New broom needs to start sweeping! COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Fortress' Alice - do you think you'll retire here? Column by ANN
CLOKE.
What visitors are thinking. A letter from France.
How many treasures finish at the dump? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
No-one knows this is a BIG town! By STEPHANIE HARRISON.
Cricket: Head down, elbow up. Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Give Peter a go! Report by PAUL FITZSIMONS.
Aboriginal art in the Barkly Region: Fruits from the bush.
Issue 0902
FEBRUARY 13, 2002.
Council surplus fracas: Govt. puts foot down. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Saving rural area: will they lock up Bert?
Mozzies may have killed US woman! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Another farewell. Column by ANN CLOKE.
Alice to be short 1000 plane seats a week. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Falling behind in the numbers game.
Scaffolding - the fast lane to reading skills. Part Two of a report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Judging court fashions; tourist promotion worries.
Without lucky break 'I would have been buggered': CAAMA's new TV doco.
'Bent' artists to let it all hang out. Review by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Keeping athletics on the move for over a quarter of a century.
CRICKET: Wests take 1st innings.
Issue 0901
FEBRUARY 6, 2002.
Native title talks hold promise of cheap land. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bushfires: Here we go again! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Town council surplus row: Surplus row: who's right? Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Drugs and anti social behaviour targets for NT government push. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Capital' needs to lift its game! Column by ANN CLOKE.
Henry Smith: The land is a mirror of life's struggle. Review by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Pamla Lofts: Wide open spaces. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
50km a day take Ryan to the top!
Issue 0846
DECEMBER 19, 2001
Tourism: bookings a worry! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Adelaide Festival snaps up our play. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Weather: It's the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation, of course. Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
A toast to Santa and other mates. Column by ANN CLOKE.
Studying in Canberra: Roundabouts, pollies. By DYLAN FITZSIMONS.
School formals: Medium size night out. By STEPHANIE HARRISON.
2002 sport is about getting right into it.
29.1 litres for 1600 km Darwin to Alice.
Issue 0845
DECEMBER 12, 2001
Boom on pastures: record season for cattle producers. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
RSPCA: fighting like cats and dogs. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Halcyon days of colour. Preview by KIERAN FINNANE.
Year of the bizarre? Column by ANN CLOKE.
Essay on torture wins. By DOROTHY GRIMM.
LETTERS: Biting and other ants.
What could make black cattle stations tick? Part Three of a series by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Centre's camels a world hit!
Drop cricket, play water polo instead!
Issue 0844
DECEMBER 5, 2001
Small ant big threat. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Movie is Ted Egan's big worry. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Pastoral flop in the heart of cattle country. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Parenting is full time job. Column by ANN CLOKE.
National award - again! By DOROTHY GRIMM.
LETTERS: Killing dogs and hurting taxpayers.
CRICKET: Jamie takes off with a maiden!
Centralian College art students: great year ends. Review by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0843
NOVEMBER 28, 2001
Grog merchants may be liable for patrons' harm. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA
and KIERAN FINNANE.
Threat of court prosecution keeps liquor traders in line.
ATSIC knew about Desart's woes. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Lutherans may run Yipirinya school. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Positive thinking. Column by ANN CLOKE.
A very special care. By DOROTHY GRIMM.
Alice journalists scoop pool.
LETTERS: Where has the media racism gone after the elections?
Dan's tin dreaming. Preview by KIERAN FINNANE.
Black cattle stations: far too many bosses!
Cricket for a duck.
Gondwana Gallery: Grass art sells out. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0842
NOVEMBER 21, 2001
Court case may delay Alice grog initiatives. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The aftermath of the Desart gallery closure. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Territory works on track despite Labor defeat in Canberra.
Growing pains. Column by ANN CLOKE.
Strutting their stuff. Report by STEPHANIE HARRIRSON.
Cricket set for outright results!
Issue 0841
NOVEMBER 14, 2001
Save $700 on solar hot water. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Desart in trouble.
Plonk claims dismissed by booze chief. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Warren Snowdon to stay in Canberra.
LETTERS: Democracy, where are you?
Two wins. Column by ANN CLOKE.
Hey, bros, dictionaries are gammon! STEPHANIE HARRIRSON checks out
Youth Speak in The Alice.
Camp dogs shot, not euthanased: RSPCA. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cricket: They're swinging in the rain!
Issue 0840
NOVEMBER 7, 2001
Snowdon, Kelly play 'follow the leader' on terrorism war. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Law principles first victims of terrorism coalition? Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Democrats: Another view on the 'war'. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Labor promises for Lingiari.
One Nation party is a strange mix. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Another trip away. Column by ANN CLOKE.
Alice Prize: 'Immense diversity of humanity'. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
New broom for DASA.
Alice gets a one stop south of the Berrimah line shop!
Cricket: Demons pray for rain.
Issue 0839
OCTOBER 31, 2001
Grog trial: tough new measures! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Toyne hits roof over sewer row. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Democrat says start-stop programs get us nowhere. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Saying sorry won't fix it! Column by ANN CLOKE.
5 years in African refugee camps ... now a computer wiz, soccer coach
in The Alice. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice is 'too remote' to deserve violin teacher! Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Catholic help for refugees.
Cricket: Bloods on the scent for a top year.
Issue 0838
OCTOBER 24, 2001
Sewage ponds to stay. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Aboriginal land title frustrates commerce. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Time to reclaim the day? Column by ANN CLOKE.
Deeply grateful for their 'quiet mind' in The Alice. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
From RAAF to CLP: Ron says 'I'll listen.' Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Cricket: Wickets at last!
Issue 0837
OCTOBER 17, 2001
Land claim over Aboriginl cattle station becomes election issue. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The Alice is a haven after the battlefields of Africa! Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Government's asylum seekers' policy is 'failure of diplomacy'.
Kids seek sex assault aid.
Her first play on stage: 'Wow, I wrote all that!' Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Cricket: Rain the torment of turf.
Issue 0836
OCTOBER 10, 2001
Buffel grass: Evil weed, Alice style. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Federal elections: Warren revs up. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Federal elections: Answers, please! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
CLP man slow learner?
Blokes need beauty, too! Report by STEPHANIE HARRISON.
'No' to $10 air ticket levy.
Centre artists star in Europe. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Rugby: Four teams ready for battle on Anzac Oval.
From pen pusher to artist: All mum's work, says Liz. Report by DOROTHY
GRIMM.
Centre artists star in Europe. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0835
OCTOBER 3, 2001
Land price relief near? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
CLP and CLC - is there a difference? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Help firms up in the air: ALP. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sleep in the bush: Salvos' best advice.
Aussie Rules in disarray.
Container deposit laws for NT soon?
Issue 0834
SEPTEMBER 26, 2001
Tourism: How bad will it get? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Henley crowd down but takings hold. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New government: so far, so good, says business. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Alice kids: fearing war, hoping for peace. Report by STEPHANIE
HARRISON.
Pioneers take the Aussie Rules flag - again!
Drama class puts dreams on stage. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: The football league must clean up its act.
Issue 0833
SEPTEMBER 19, 2001
Repeat of pilots dispute fiasco? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Ansett crash: Savage slug but they're hanging in! Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Budget fiasco: CLP pollies face sack. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Life's lessons in the snow. Report by STEPHANIE HARRISON.
Community football pushing to join the main rules game!
From lace and pastels to furniture. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0832
SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
Push for cheap flights. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
THE YEPERENYE FESTIVAL:
What a show! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Fest may become biennial!
Not going straight! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Troubled kids rather see their peers. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Move over, Steve! Preview by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Art that will blow away. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
I didn't get my say: Banned football official.
Issue 0831
SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
Mega show will 'fall into place'. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Stolen children discord. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Showing off Ð big time! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Culture on way back? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Council snares big convention.
More going to higher studies. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0830
AUGUST 29, 2001
What will replace jail law? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Not just One Nation! COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
First Labor Cabinet.
Festival fever.
Booze moves onto fast track. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Greenie second in Safari!
Coming far for Hallelujah. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0829
AUGUST 22, 2001
Historic poll - Labor set to rule: Bush pollies will jointly tackle
issues. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Art centre: open and shut case! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Volunteers: All hands to the pump! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Racial wars with gun in pants. Preview by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0828
AUGUST 15, 2001
Now it's the voters' call! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Better pay needed to end nursing staff woes. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Mateship and total abstinence are the way to kick grog habit. Report by
DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0827
AUGUST 8, 2001
Federal grants a poll issue. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Remote health is starved for services yet funds unspent for more than
12 months! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Aboriginal citrus deal falls through.
West MacDonnells native title claim may foil mining in park.
Balgo: Bush art has big ambitions. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0826
AUGUST 1, 2001
Grog: more meetings. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Flying in the face of adversity.
Grog debate: Don't people have shame?
CLP has forgotten us, says Bohning.
Issue 0825
JULY 25, 2001
Black jobs on way up. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Railway first sod: All aboard the Darwin express.
Burke breaks promise: protesters.
New row over hospital chief's "secondment".
Bowden for Araluen.
'Organisations are letting down bush communities.' Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Holidays are just a good memory now. By STEPHANIE HARRISON.
Issue 0824
JULY 18, 2001
Outrage over hospital chief. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
This train is going south!
Where the new railway could take our tourism. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
NT home boost.
A yarn for the next 10 years. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog and sniffing a mammoth task! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
We want town to grow: native title holder.
Alice art dealers spread Centre message abroad.
Issue 0823
JULY 11, 2001
Burke to announce projects for The Alice: Election spending boom?
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Good bye, ALP: Curtis goes for Democrats.
Tambling: End of voting freedom for CLP pollies?
Yeperenye Festival will be huge. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Huge cattle price boom.
Grog restrictions - the missing link. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Bush councils funds slashed.
A world of spirits. KIERAN FINNANE reviews Kathleen Wallace's first
solo exhibition.
Issue 0822
JULY 4, 2001
Rock resort may get competition! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
30% car slump doesn't daunt dealer: big prize, may expand. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council gets huge Federal grants for river, roads.
Bush funds brawl goes on! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0821
JUNE 27, 2001
$10m public housing in decay: People move back to humpies! Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Parks fate not sealed. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Slow road to university. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
XXX club not all beer and skittles! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Drawing the green line: Work by Pip McManus. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0820
JUNE 20, 2001
Downed air charter firm gets nationwide support. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Two boys find $10,000 cat ... but the reward will go to charity.
Native title is key to cost of land in Alice. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Research shows wet canteens in bush lead to excessive drinking! Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Government learns some lessons in remote schools. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0819
JUNE 13, 2001
Grog boss to face queries. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Vroom the new King of Desert.
Is the Budget fair to Alice? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Out in the streets. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
A heart and mind to match a big country. Report by KIERAN FINNANE on
the Queen's Birthday Honours.
A tough man's work for God! Report by KIERAN FINNANE on the Queen's
Birthday Honours.
Language opened whole new world! Report by KIERAN FINNANE on the
Queen's Birthday Honours.
Issue 0818
JUNE 6, 2001
Grog moves back to square one - Mayor. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Booze 'facts'?
Bidding was spirited but 'in the negative'.
Floods bigger, more frequent. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Painter Wayne Eager: In love with colour, stroke.
Issue 0817
MAY 30, 2001
Housing development hits storm water snag. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sun and thunder - climate changes in The Centre. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Labor promises "direct access" instead of a Minister for Central
Australia.
What half a million a day could do for us. COMMENT by CLARE MARTIN,
N.T. OPPOSITION LEADER.
Election issues shaping slowly. ERWIN CHLANDA interviews the CLP's
Jodeen Carney.
Issue 0816
MAY 23, 2001
Did grog trials hurt tourism? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Long lunch solves some rail queries, but not all! Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
... and a salvo from Jane. Response by JANE MUNDAY, NT Government's
Manager of Marketing and Communications for the Railway.
Sun city Alice? COMMENT by GLENN MARSHALL.
LETTERS: Grog moves: whose interests defended?
Issue 0815
MAY 16, 2001
Solar power push. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Top artists for our giant fest. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Council birthday too hard basket? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog: give trials a go? Comment by ANN CLOKE.
LETTERS: Pine Gap: Does Mayor have her head in sand?
Quarter of a century of great Aussie craft. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0814
MAY 9, 2001
Should we let Pine Gap fight Star Wars? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Another day in paradise! Comment by ANN CLOKE.
Mental services are under stress. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Town trash: who's in charge of what?
Son about Mother of Year: She's always there for me!
Railway a financial drain for half a century: Dick Kimber. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Even brother was 'Sir' on big night!
Issue 0813
MAY 2, 2001
Green Street: Outback lifestyle chance. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Zbigniew Prus-Grzybowski: Alice Springs' lonely hero. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Education gap: agreement soon. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourist lost on 'train to the moon'. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
So, anyway, where are you from? Comment by ANN CLOKE.
Award for Alice film.
Canvas, castles, country. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Tourists joined in! Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0812
APRIL 25, 2001
Tourism chiefs woo overseas visitors. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice company's clients: 96% are from overseas. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Aged home short staffed: Are the residents at risk? Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Life Promotion is for men as well as youth.
Mental Health spending growth.
Dept of Health: Runaways job for cops!
Myrtle Noske still draws a fine line! Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Music's in the heart of Alice! PAUL HILLSDON speaks to loacl Rock star
Leon Spurling.
Issue 0811
APRIL 18, 2001
New sewage plant. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
"The welfare people couldn't care less." Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alison Anderson: Living with success. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Radioactive water: facts on the table. By ROBYN GREY-GARDNER,
Technology Transfer Officer, Centre for Appropriate Technology.
Alice band on their way up! By PAUL HILLSDON
Issue 0810
APRIL 11, 2001
Old Timers staff worry. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Yuendumu water concerns! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Convention centre faces 'challenges'. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grooving at last! Story by PAUL HILLSDON.
Case for a basket. Story by THISBE PURICH.
Issue 0809
APRIL 4, 2001
PAWA land deal: still no answers. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
'See Oz first' battle in Centre. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Dead heart' is alive. COMMENT by KRISTEL O'SULLIVAN, a deviating
backpacker.
LETTERS: Tourists want more than just pictures!
Good season, good prices lead to cattle export bonanza. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Self help scheme may get mining money. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0808
MARCH 28, 2001
High prices of land put home grant in doubt. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
What the Feds may do about Alice grog and drug problems. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
PAWA sells land in bid to recover debt. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
National Trust has win against Top End chiefs!
Pine Gap: A blast Alice can do without. COMMENT by SCOTT
CAMPBELL-SMITH.
Finke boss: 'My use by date is near'.
Issue 0807
MARCH 21, 2001
Weaker dollar can work for Alice! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Lim dodging sewage issue: "Gate to town is a cesspool".
Nurse for 20 years: Bush kids 'now healthier'. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
What if the bomb hits the base? COMMENT by SCOTT CAMPBELL-SMITH.
Rod's pen mightier than his brush?
Issue 0806
MARCH 14, 2001
Mosquito disease crisis: Government liable? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Independents swell ranks of Territory election candidates. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog take away hours may be cut. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
"Before and after" for old cemetery.
Cyber hall for women before earthbound one.
Araluen's new gallery celebrates The Centre's diverse art. Review by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0805
MARCH 7, 2001
Eddie may tip the scales in Braitling. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Fight for hard drugs 'rehab'. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What is our back yard? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Gay fest furore. Report by NICK SHEPLEY.
Mice, men & moggies. Review by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0804
FEBRUARY 28, 2001
Araluen goes for it! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Buildings that belong here.
Getting the convention centre design on the right track. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Much scratching of heads as pollies get cracking for Territory
election.
Planning green light for youth centre in Gap. Report by NICK SHEPLEY.
Alice Springs is 'capital' of Lake Eyre district.
Europe loves The Centre.
Issue 0803
FEBRUARY 21, 2001
One Nation active again in The Alice. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
LETTERS: Take a train back in time with Denis!
Triumph or lost chance? KIERAN FINNANE examines two views on one
heritage issue.
Pollies eye off bottom line. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The Price Family: Blue eyes, fair skin and still a Warlpiri. Final Part
of a Series by KIERAN FINNANE.
Europe by motor home: Adrenalin in the streets of Paris. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Issue 0802
FEBRUARY 14, 2001
Chamber to quiz pollies. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Night of the long knives: inside story!
'Kidney' for the dump. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Grog action: don't hold your breath!
Braitling: grappling for issues. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The centre of all storms. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0801
FEBRUARY 7, 2001
Govt. "no" to help for local film. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Minister wrong on kidney program.
Mining giant and CAT solve problems in the bush. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
National Trust break away group mooted!
COMMENT: Getting the town going?
Europe in winter by motor home: It's a hoot! Part one of a report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0751
DECEMBER 20, 2000
Exodus starts: almost half will 'head south'. Report by DYLAN
FITZSIMONS.
CENTRAL ISSUES FOR THE YEAR 2001:
PETER TOYNE MLA: Let's get The Alice going!
MINISTER FOR CENTRAL AUSTRALIA RICHARD LIM: Project led recovery.
MAYOR FRAN ERLICH: We must diversify.
ATSIC COMMISSIONER ALISON ANDERSON: Let's talk about the treaty.
Many uses for $3m centre in the desert.
Grog scourge cuts families: shaming can be a weapon. Part Three of a
series by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sport 2001: Finke, horse racing and Aussie rules to blossom!
Issue 0750
DECEMBER 13, 2000
Subdivisions: nature's way. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
An end to 'Darwin style' subdivisions?
Centenary of Federation Show in Alice: 1000s of kids, black and white!
LETTERS: Where councils may go, where Richard should go, and where
Meredith should not go.
The Price Family: Lending, giving, drawing the line. Part Two of a
series by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0749
DECEMBER 6, 2000
Bush roads miss out because we have too few councils. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Local Government reform: bigger councils, more tasks. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Highschool a 'wreck' says Araluen hopeful.
Reconciliation ... at home. Part One of a series by KIERAN FINNANE.
Doors onto a culture: Where "dot paintings" started.
Issue 0748
NOVEMBER 29, 2000
Country Liberal Party: They day of the long knives. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Independent? Maybe, says Braham.
Braham is in untenable position: ALP's Brooke.
Legal aid takeover averted, Liddle debt not discussed.
Don't short change Alice: a bridge, not causeway at casino.
Reconciliation needs legislative muscle. Interview with Sir Ronald
Wilson by KIERAN FINNANE.
Sadadeen scores first time win for NT school. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0747
NOVEMBER 22, 2000
Feared takeover would collapse Aboriginal legal aid. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
We will muster the cattle in the national park, says commission.
Get fit, save fuel. COMMENT by GLENN MARSHALL, of the Arid Lands
Environment Centre.
Overdose death: mother wants help for addicts! Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS: National Trust: the fight is on!
Issue 0746
NOVEMBER 15, 2000
Health system fails too many: Call for GPs. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Bruce Ruxton lets fly: The RSL war horse speaks out in The Alice.
LETTERS: The Liquor industry deserves say on DASA board!
Liquor commissioner: measures by Jan 1. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
$1m for art from Western Desert: dialysis appeal.
National Trust: push to make Alice the HQ. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Araluen friends reward artists. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Up, up and away for THREE Alice teens.
Issue 0745
NOVEMBER 8, 2000
Uproar as National Trust closes office in The Alice. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Bureaucrats mum as bulls fight in park.
LETTERS: Liquor interests 'stack' DASA.
Take health service to the people: Aboriginal leader. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Model for local government.
Medical services prime target for ALP hopeful. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Oil for us: Could Denis be a fuel saviour? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Buffel grass: Landscape's bleak future. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Nugget Coombs: father of Aboriginal organisations! Interview by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Braham clears up queries on alcohol moves. Report by ERWIN CLANDA.
Issue 0744
NOVEMBER 1, 2000
Rain, talks ease bushfire threats. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Perkins dead: The world will now be a more boring place. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Chief Minister barred from Perkins memorial service.
Congress row: What's good for the goose... Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Junketeering pollies?
Give yourself and others a break!
Town ticks for the Masters' Games.
The price kids paid for 'welfare' policy.
Issue 0743
OCTOBER 25, 2000
Sites sacred for all born in Alice! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Pollies head for starting blocks. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Natural' drains trial big expense for rural blocks. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Motor home rally ends on sour note. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
"Nuggett" Coombs: You can lead a horse to water, but... Interview with
TIM ROWSE by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0742
OCTOBER 18, 2000
Congress has slush fund, insider alleges. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Crash' irons out emergency bugs.
Burn off to help water table.
Tangentyere: Enterprise is replacing handouts. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Papunya Tula: Art from agony. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
It's a big country for aged people's friend.
Liz Martin: trucks true to life (Part Two). By KIERAN FINNANE.
Centralian College: A (dining) room with a view.
Information booth: Where it all began!
Hospital gives cash infusion.
Issue 0741
OCTOBER 11, 2000
Let's be nice to motor home fans! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
'Return to country' stepped up.
Fact finding on Olympic scale? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Stormy CAAMA doco shows Centre to the world. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The truck is coming: How Liz Martin became fond of road trains. Profile
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0740
OCTOBER 4, 2000
Motor homes crowd wants bush camping. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Flying visit to Rock.
Why so camera shy? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
IAD comes in from the cold. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Splitting the sheets. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0739
SEPTEMBER 27, 2000
Tanami desert ablaze. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog report just a 'wake up call'. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Call for change to dole regime in booze battle.
Mayor tells how his town grasped the alcohol nettle.
New centres join Desert Mob. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0738
SEPTEMBER 20, 2000
CLP targets 2 km law and licence breaches. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Police drop 'pay back' probe.
Bird paradise will be open to public! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Feathered wonders greet new settlers! By ROSE COPPOCK.
Competition probe under way but Govt. thumps real estate service.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Shopping 'local' gets shot in arm.
Issue 0737
SEPTEMBER 13, 2000
'Payback' in Alice Springs. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
LETTERS: Brooke wrong on liquor, says Elferink.
Birds, not cattle at Newhaven. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Juvenile offenders: 'diversions' start.
Young playwrights feeling 10 feet tall! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0736
SEPTEMBER 6, 2000
Liquor commissioner is 'seriously compromised'. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Darwin rail money is not yet on track. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Wrong Olympic label.
When tourists are not sheep. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Substance abuse: quick response. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Boost for Batchelor College. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice author Laughton has huge readership among US Viet-vets. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0735
AUGUST 30, 2000
Swamp draining a stop gap. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Papunya School: the centre of its students' universe! Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Inhalants abuses: A robust strategy? Report by KIERAN FINANE.
US writer tackles a touchy Oz topic. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Faith in new talent is a winner for Roslyn. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0734
AUGUST 23, 2000
Web bets ban: good and bad news for Alice firms. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Cops twice oppose camp's grog ban move. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Will they finally get a handle on inhalant abuse? Report by KIERAN
FINANE.
Petrol and paint sniffing happens right under your nose, says games
arcade boss.
They're all ears! Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0733
AUGUST 16, 2000
Games no big worry for our visitor trade. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
New Centre lobby to be independent. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Burke weighs in on Alice booze debate! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
No booze free days, says town council.
Travel through desert paradise. Report by KIERAN FINANE.
We'd like to meet more locals, say backpackers. Report by JANE LEONARD.
Issue 0732
AUGUST 9, 2000
Council urged to lead town on grog reform. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Too much pussyfooting around the alcohol issues: Ald Bob Corby.
96% say alcohol a problem in Alice. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Wrong consumption figures don't invalidate grog report. By Associate
Professor DENNIS GRAY, National Drug Research Institute.
Licensees may assist rehabilitation efforts. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Sacred site shared.
Water under the bridge? COMMENT by GLENN MARSHALL, Arid Lands
Environment Centre.
Pine Gap space base is a worry again, says Snowdon. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Black unemployment: Democrats boss says governments at fault! Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
We're not tourists, say backpackers. Report by JANE LEONARD.
Issue 0731
AUGUST 2, 2000
Booze boss delays action. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog survey: who gave the answers? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Separate political development? TIM ROWSE concludes his comment piece.
LETTERS: Jenny Mostran looking for greener pastures?
Tourism: will we be lackeys or bosses? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0730
JULY 26, 2000
Liquor traders furious. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Council coffers need filling! COMMENT by Ald JENNY MOSTRAN.
Horror hospital statistics: assaults on women double. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NT Gov. funds bus runs for camp kids.
Stolen generations take healing centre stage in Reconciliation! COMMENT
by TIM ROWSE.
Issue 0729
JULY 19, 2000
Alcohol: where do we go next? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog report badly flawed. COMMENT by Ald SAMIH HABIB.
Reconciliation: is it getting anywhere? COMMENT by Dr TIM ROWSE.
Harry Potter, move over, Alice Springs' Medalon is coming! Report by
DOROTHY GRIMM.
If us young ones were running the country... Report by DYLAN
FITZSIMONS.
Council rates will stay put!
Issue 0728
JULY 12, 2000
Grog a problem for whole town, says shock report. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Heritage activists will target many buildings. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Grog, drug bodies scale down as new Teritory funding regime starts.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The "Silent Sam" Calder biography: WWII fighter ace, cattle man and
Territory politician. Interview by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Home made fun big winner a the Alice Show. It was the first for JANE
LEONARD.
Huge crowd for 'road show'.
Issue 0727
JULY 5, 2000
Council seeks new deal from sports. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Town planning confusion still rife Ð Mayor. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Town council rating policy is ambiguous: Ombudsman.
Alice RSPCA snubbed by national body. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Rock art alive!
Country music tribute. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0726
JUNE 28, 2000
Pioneer women want old prison. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Grog, drugs focus for new crime prevention.
Let's go jet skiing on the sewerage ponds! Report by EMILY KANAAN.
Holiday on the planet!
Alice has Melbourne Cup of camel racing: Local supporters. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Money may run out at crucial time for disadvantaged students. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Vegies take Lan from 'Nam to new home. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Journey back to Mongrel Downs. Book Review.
Issue 0725
JUNE 21, 2000
Challenges ahead: New tourism boss. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Who's got the better camel race?
Dope in schools. Report by EMILY KANAAN.
Desert Knowledge group: global or local? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Why these kids can't take the normal school bus.
Letters to the Editor: "Disclose real cost of the torch show".
Issue 0724
JUNE 15, 2000
World Vision in Centre 'for as long as it takes'. ERWIN CHLANDA
reports.
Todd dam: CLP boss calls for new talks.
Todd channel is as deep as 40 years ago! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Love's a great teaching tool. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
What a party! JANE LEONARD was there when locals celebrated the arrival
of the Olympic torch.
Was the torch bash worth $105,000 in town council money? COMMENT by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Stephen "Greenie" Greenfield recaptures Finke crown.
Issue 0723
JUNE 7, 2000
Dope use increase! ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Stolen generations: Lest We Forget? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Land council seeks ground breaking deal. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New Mayor: 'I'll give it everything I've got. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Illegal campers down by 90 per cent.
Foreign invasion of Alice's fishing spot. Report by STEVE McVAY, Gulf
News, Borroloola.
No chance to play. Book review by KIERAN FINNANE.
College play: Slutty, flirtatious loonies, and one wielding a knife.
Issue 0722
MAY 31, 2000
We want Owen Springs Station, say Aborigines. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Shooting the messenger: Secrecy in the Territory. COMMENT by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Alice arts course beats Big Smoke!
Urban cow boys (and girls!) love lifestyle in The Centre. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
How good were the good old days? JANE LEONARD reflects.
Issue 0721
MAY 24, 2000
Council is the voice of Alice. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
MacDonnell electorate big winner in Budget. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Will new council win on town planning? By ERWIN CHLANDA.
River may be winner in council poll.
A school for those who don't want to go there!
Baksheesh for CATIA? Row over 'incentives'.
Is the council reflecting the community's offence over public
drunkenness? COMMENT by Mayoral candidate JENNY MOSTRAN.
Girls in tough drama!
Issue 0720
MAY 17, 2000
RSPCA in dog fight. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
'Non solutions' for the swamp. COMMENT by MARSHALL, coordinator of the
Arid Lands Environment Centre.
Education: Words, not money? KIERAN FINNANE reports.
School of the Air could help. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cops cant find Eddie, let alone the vandals.
When silence ain't golden. COMMENT by KIERAN FINNANE.
GST won't do much for car trade Ð Kittle.
Issue 0719
MAY 10, 2000
New deal for cattle industry. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Our past we pass. JANE LEONARD surveys the Old Alice.
No more rate hikes! COMMENT by mayoral candidate GEOFF MIERS.
Mushroom treatment for Territorians: Secrecy turns to contempt. COMMENT
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Visitors from abroad: more, staying longer!
Fabrics at great heights. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0718
MAY 3, 2000
Rustling probe fizzes: 'Suspects'to hit back. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Land council 'blocks deal'.
Mandatory sentencing: Safety or revenge? COMMENT by Labor candidate
PETER KAVANAGH.
CAAMA: On Air for 20 years! ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Outback road rage.
Lateral thinking creates a great place for young! Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
New Federal seat boon for Alice or Berrimah Line?
Things have changed, Daryl!
Where did the team names come from? Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0717
April 26, 2000
Collins: we must restore confidence in education! KIERAN FINNANE
reports.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: We won't come while you have mandatory
sentencing: athletes.
Let's regain our lifestyle, says candidate.
Will candidates learn from this?
Alcohol restrictions are no cure-all. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
RSL not just for old diggers!
Issue 0716
April 19, 2000
Heritage home next to go? ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Biggest mozzie farm this side of black stump.
Tourism: We're ignoring a gold mine. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
ALP law and order policy: Jail still 'intention' except in 'extenuating
circumstances'.
'Boundary Hotel' is a bush lesson for Alice Springs: Council candidate
Samih Habib.
Forging a team should be first task of council: Candidate Helen
Joraslafsky.
Janganpa: More than an art centre. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0715
April 12, 2000
Tourism: We have what the world wants. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Change of mind: Fran Erlich for Mayor. Profile by KIERAN FINNANE.
We'll cop cask ban: Todd Tavern owner.
Yipirinya lobby for secondary school.
Are home builders charging too much? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0714
April 5, 2000
Tourist Commission 'ignores Aborigines'. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
LETTER: Waste treatment 'effective', government claims.
Imam stays!
And now, Her Worship?
Ignored complaints make Annette stand for council.
Gunn leaves CATIA to boost visits to parks.
Town camp throws out a disabled! Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Cattle duffing allegations in row with CLC. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
GST & black art: Don't worry, we're from the government, and we're
here to help you ...
The Queen in town: Is she coming? What's she wearing? Is that her? JANE
LEONARD was in the crowd.
Issue 0713
March 29, 2000
If the community wantes them, we won't oppose booze bans, says
Woolworths. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Mandatory sentencing may not be a vote winner for the CLP. COMMENT by
Prof. DAVID CARMENT.
The buck stops with aldermen, says Alicastro.
Issue 0712
March 22, 2000
Buffel grass is out of control. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Council waste 'kerfuffle': chairman hits back.
Alice's web casino 'needs more safeguards' - Senate.
Another alderman hits out.
Law threat over camp house row.
Young guns aim at council seats. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Redistribution: Farewell, ALP?
Issue 0711
March 15, 2000
Council officers row: Rebuke for Ald Geoff Harris. ERWIN CHLANDA
reports.
Post office breached award - Allegation.
Consultants not a waste, says Scarvelis.
New Minister gets tough on principals in bush schools. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Grog control measures: Where to now? KIERAN FINNANE examines
restrictions in Tennant Creek.
Two steps forward, three back: Single mother's plight. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Geoff Harris: How I would save the council.
Canberra? Give us The Alice, any day.
Great green start for new century. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0710
March 8, 2000
CLP and ALP pollies join in bid to fight alcohol troubles. ERWIN
CHLANDA reports.
Birds shot, abandoned.
Ald. Harris slams council bureaucracy.
Alice's economy see-saws as the new taxes loom. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
ATSIC makes case for Canberra quashing mandatory sentencing.
LETTERS: 'Effluent flowing over road is not treated'.
Issue 0709
March 1, 2000
Department is using "dirty tricks" against real estate consultant.
ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Flood chiefs may be under water.
Miers, Naismith in race for Mayor.
Aldermen claim they were "defeated by the system". Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Alice public toilet: Relief at last?
Class acts: Two schools forge ahead. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0708
February 23, 2000
Old gaol is left to rot. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Pokemon: Teachers thwart tiny traders.
Rain, prize boost for pastoralists. Comment by BOB MILLINGTON.
Grog woes: long road to solution. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Treated effluent flowed over road during rains.
Floods: rescue, not prevention! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
'Only a dam could help' to prevent flooding of the town.
Issue 0707
February 16, 2000
Mandatory sentencing: Snowdon, Toyne differ on Feds' role. ERWIN
CHLANDA reports.
Heritage laws need review. Comment by DOM PECORARI.
Employment: Alice in top stayers' stakes.
Bill Williams' book: Much more than the cliche of our third World.
Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0706
February 9, 2000
Prize fuels interest in Ted Egan's film. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
$12m "Taj Mahal" has aldermen brawling.
Old house in town could have been a treasure. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Mandatory sentencing turns courts into lottery. Comment by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Redistribution: Bush vs Darwin, or more of the same?
Joblessness ... the real story. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0705
February 2, 2000
Man banished from living on wife's country under Land Rights. ERWIN
CHLANDA reports.
Tourism industry red faces over touch screen.
Land wrangle blocks $10m tourism development. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
'Rotten motor car' will be the next battle.
Alice Springs - where to in the new millennium? Comments by Jodeen
Carney, Fran Erlich, Margaret-Mary Turner and Kieran Finnane.
PLEASE NOTE: ISSUES 0701 TO 0704 WERE ADVERTISING EDITIONS ONLY!
Issue 0647
December 22, 1999
Cattle run wild in our national parks. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Quarter century at Ayers Rock sees family company at the top. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Pictures in more ways than one for Aboriginal company.
College thefts inside jobs? By SARA TYE.
Living with alcoholics. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Year 2000: What's ahead? FOUR COMMENTS from Barry Abbott, John
Elferink, Peter Toyne and Erwin Chlanda.
Mercy pilots with a sense of humour. Review by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Women's group helps refugees.
Musos play for Santa. By GRAEME PETER.
Issue 0646
December 15, 1999
Council money mystery. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Knowledge tree is taking roots. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Letter: Tourist robbed!
Railway boom in question. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
It'll take a lot of trains to beat our trucks. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
If you can't read, others will run your life. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Course leads to jobs.
Resort at Ayers Rock adapts to the desert. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Frontier gone - Centre neds a new image!
"All done" says Ausralia's first female auctioneer. By DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0645
December 8, 1999
Teacher shortage at crisis point. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
$1.2b railway: Thanks, Chief Minister ... but what for? COMMENT by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Disabled access getting better, but more work needed. By DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0644
December 1, 1999
Rumble at Ayers Rock: Shutting Uluru's gates? ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Govt. should buy cattle station, says MLA.
Letter: '88 floods just one fond memory for Centre's Yankee!
Breaking through learning barriers. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Killer comes for Aborigines 20 years sooner. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Issue 0643
November 24, 1999
TV price fight. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Alice Springs soldiers in East Timor. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Can't get staff: Business people leave town. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Self employment is black students' big goal. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Darwin railway - what use for Alice Springs? Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Getting out of prison - but what for? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Bands are the evil necessity. By Entertainment Writer GRAEME PETER.
Issue 0642
November 17, 1999
Desert knowledge could gain region a billion customers world wide.
KIERAN FINNANE reports.
D-Day for Town Planning. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
School is more than the three Rs for disadvantaged youths. KIERAN
FINNANE reports.
Issue 0641
November 10, 1999
Government's slow trek on world class nature walk. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Shooting the messenger on education? Comment by KIERAN FINNANE.
Dead Centre is the place to be. by DOROTHY GRIMM.
First female priest.
Aboriginal housing: lifespan of a home is just seven years. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0640
November 3, 1999
Will Alice Springs miss the train? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What the railway will do for us: Comment by Minister for Central
Australia Loraine Braham.
Town planning "no" to rural subdivision scheme.
Bid for one classroom was asking too much. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Alice women are safe but not free. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Royal ringer Prince William? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice Prize: Traditional to digital. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0639
October 27, 1999
Territory Government caned for mess in education. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Cut Ayers Rock ring road but leave climb alone: Tourism lobby.
Week-long bloody mayhem in black community: Questions on police
response. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Strehlow collection: Sacred objects row.
Bishop with a far flung flock. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM.
Bucks and bouquets: Central Australia's art goes overseas. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0638
October 20, 1999
Federal university plan would hit Central Australia hard. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
MLA Richard Lim on warpath over Todd levee.
New role for Strehlow Centre.
Minister for Central Australia vague on its future.
Our Town: Paradise or prison? Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0637
October 13, 1999
Buying spree for Ayers Rock Resort. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Institute for Aboriginal Development: Battle for survival. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Snow skis for Molly: Vienna raises funds for desert granny.
Self-help college at Ayers Rock - Uluru.
Issue 0636
October 6, 1999
Ayers Rock (Uluru) master plan: New roads, climb "de-emphasized".
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Uluru park chairperson: Not all's well in paradise. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Bush pub booms after Aborigines are banned from drinking. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Brainy role models.
Bushmen remembered. Review by KIERAN FINNANE (Part Two).
Issue 0635
September 29, 1999
Planning veto
"only at the ballot box". Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice winery may go if controversial subdivision proposal succeeds.
Minister Loraine Braham gives her views on statehood.
Planned convention centre may be a dud.
Women advising the Chief Minister: One step at a time.
Women pioneers and their men: Two new books. Review by KIERAN FINNANE
(Part One).
Issue 0634 September 22, 1999
Alderman
attacks town planning draft legislation. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
A future better than the dole? By KIERAN FINNANE.
We're consulting on town planning, says MLA Elferink.
A future better than the dole? By KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0633 September 15, 1999
Young people
can't wait to leave. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Timor's plight moves locals.
Statehood: Genie of democracy is set free, says Peter Toyne.
No shade: We're still baking in the sun.
Big dollars for new teaching group.
Work starts at school in new jobs program.
Feeling at home, no matter where.
Bush wise poems.
Issue 0632 September 8, 1999
Devil's
Marble moved from Flynn's Grave.
... what the Rev Fred McKay had to say about it, now and five years
ago. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Hush money paid with public funds.
Two teaching institutions form close ties. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Ballet school and company to part.
Curb government planning powers, say councils.
Issue 0631 September 1, 1999
Poker
machines addict wants her money back. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Changes in job network line-up. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New museum: It's a buzz, not a textbook.
New top cop faces big challenges. Interview by ERWIN CHLANDA.
User-friendly statehood needed, says campaigner Fran Erlich.
Ayers Rock disaster waiting to happen.
Bush export: Knowledge.
Issue 0630 August 25, 1999
Government
blocks ballet funds. Report from KIERAN FINNANE.
Grog moves on go-slow? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Statehood: A view from the young. Report by DYLAN FITZSIMONS.
Minister responds to hospital allegations.
Issue 0629 August 18, 1999
Hospital in
crisis? Report from ERWIN CHLANDA.
Desert power: Aboriginal artist launches new style.
Fighting, swearing sends neighbors 'round the twist.
40 blokes plus me: Lady plumber in men's game. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Students' movies: A window on the world of the young.
Issue 0628 August 11, 1999
Garbage dump:
Pay by the kilo? Report from ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice News under siege. Comment.
Agreeing with Ald Harris on mandatory sentencing. (Letters to the
Editor.)
Centralian College: Centre of learning for people from all over the
world? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Tunnel Rats will be remembered. Book review - part two.
Is school being penalised?
Solar race: Million dollar cars are cheap on fuel.
Issue 0627 August 4, 1999
Alice heroin
use: It's a lot worse! Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
... and we hold the sniffing record.
Ilparpa hoons: On your bikes! (Letters to the Editor.)
Tourist season is a boomer. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Some venues treat musos worse than cleaners. Report by GRAEME PETER.
Issue 0626 July 28, 1999
Alice heroin
use is for the rich. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Vietnam veteran heads for big book success.
Guiding the next generation.
Kids at risk are in the street as scheming for Aranda House refuge
funding continues.
Issue 0625 July 21, 1999
Gold mine
sacks 12, gives them 30 minutes to leave. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tangentyere settles TBS case but is mum on details.
Alderman fuming over town council "inaction".
25 years or more in town: Alice, we love ya! (Part Two)
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says Aboriginal enterprises in Central
Australia are way behind the "Top End".
Issue 0624 July 14, 1999
Is dog baiter
back? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Major building firm leaves town.
Aranda House was "forced to scale down".
25 years or more in town: Alice, we love ya!
More arts money, Well, yes and no. Part Two of a Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Issue 0623 July 7, 1999
New land use
plan based on slow growth forecast. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Planning appeal right for public ruled out again.
Aranda House: New funding opportunities?
Fight against crime: What works and what doesn't.
Art funding: Is it fair? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0622 June 30, 1999
Alice Mayor
seeks deal for Centre roads as Darwin may get railway. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
What discussions, asks IAD director Donna AhChee in a letter to the
editor.
Bush teaching needs money and vision.
Big flap about small part.
Is sport changing - or are we? COMMENT.
Theatre troupe still waiting for Prince Charming.
Issue 0621 June 23, 1999
Alice may get
joint campus, Minister comments on bilingual education. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Feds, NT Govt. interene in Aranda House mess.
Litter plans 'ploy' to frustrate container deposit laws.
Mining deal rocks Pitjantjatjara lands.
Black art seeking new forms of expression. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0620 June 16, 1999
Ayers Rock
job program. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Finke Desert Race: Buggies to rule?
New food laws are needed, says Senator Tambling.
How impartial is our public service? Comment.
Truckies not worried about new railway, but ...
Education Dept. at odds with school council over grog.
Issue 0619 June 9, 1999
Finke Desert
Race sparks an 'Alice can do' bonanza. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice career women. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Amended mandatory sentencing laws help just a few.
Issue 0618 June 2, 1999
Elferink and
sport chiefs push for motoring complex. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Women on the hustings. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Canberra's "contribution" to the Year of the Elderly.
Butchers course to get the chop?
Town and coutry shopping. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0617 May 26, 1999
Will new food
control laws kill bush camp cooking? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
New NT University courses mooted for Alice Springs. KIERAN FINNANE
reports.
Town planning: How much say for the public? Guest Editorial by ANDRE
BURGESS.
Labor's thoughts on getting fuel prices down.
Art from scrap metal. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0616 May 19, 1999
Girl
committed suicide after being barred from Aranda House. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Dot art debate or sensationalism? KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Aboriginal housing Ð how to make homes last longer. PART TWO by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
RAAF Roulettes: The fast way to heaven.
Books could tell us what the future outback will be like.
Signs around The Alice: What image are we creating?
Issue 0615 May 12, 1999
Youth refuge
funds wasted - allegations. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Refuge management: The lessons from Aranda House.
Aboriginal housing in the bush: Still miles behind.
Yes, the Old Post Office is unique!
Central Australian casino to be world's cyber gambling Mecca?
Books that give The Centre its soul.
Dreamtime exposure on the web: The Duck has landed (Conclusion).
Issue 0614 May 5, 1999
Dot painting
row escalates with national newspaper under attack. Report by KIERAN
FINANE.
Araluen style should be maintained, says public.
How to get the Labor Party out of the doldrums. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Issue 0613 April 28, 1999
Is the NT
Government breaking its own laws over youth refuge funding? Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Railway "promise" hardly a win: Alderman Geoff Miers attacks Mayor.
Court house bursting at the seams.
Another heritage building faces the bulldozer. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Letter from Vienna: Keep Central Australia bitumen free!
Issue 0612 April 21, 1999
New push for
east-west highway.
Killing in town puts spotlight on payback. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Alice in 2010: The big picture. Interview by KIERAN FINNANE.
Court interpreters readily available, says Aboriginal leader.
Give Alice back her soul, says frequent visitor from France.
An Indonesian - Aboriginal art link.
Issue 0611 April 14, 1999
NT Government
in gambling trade. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Vision for Alice lacks conviction. Guest comment by ROD MOSS.
Bargain basement cultural precinct. Comment by KIERAN FINNANE.
Dreamtime quack sets web abuzz. (Series)
Black art: Self-regulate or Big Brother?
Issue 0610 April 7, 1999
Unconditional bail for alleged rapist. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
The Territory Government the only one in the nation to object to ALL
national heritage listing applications.
Move towards honesty in art deals. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Neighborhood Watch is told less by police. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Web keeps dreamtime alive. (Series)
Issue 0609
March 31, 1999
Where is all the money going, asks new Labor Leader Clare Martin. By
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Builder says bureaucracy is stifling 1000 block development.
Not another convention centre! Guest editorial by Ald TONY ALICASTRO.
The way ahead for Aboriginal art. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Dreamtime and cyberspace on collision course. PART THREE of a special
report.
Issue 0608
March 24, 1999
The town council wants to play a bigger role in the community. By ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Minister for Central Australia wants a better life in the bush - so
fewer people will come into town.
Dead bones instead of live dancers at Araluen. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
We're on the brink of a boom - if we all make it happen! Guest
editorial by LIZ DAVIES.
Dreamtime and cyberspace on collision course. PART TWO of a special
report.
Issue 0607
March 17, 1999
Traders want more skills, more people.
The NT Government's policy to kill off bi-lingual education in schools
is racist: Guest editorial by BOB BOUGHTON.
Clinching more mining deals looks like one of the strategies by the
Aboriginal Central Land Council to survive the Reeves Report. Story by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Dreamtime and cyberspace on collision course. PART ONE of a special
report.
Issue 0606
March 10, 1999
Labor claims mandatory sentencing is a dud.
Native title may bring millions of dollars into Alice Springs. Guest
editorial by MLA PETER TOYONE.
Is the NT Government short-changing arts groups? Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Alice gets a poor report card from the Human Rights Commission. Report
by CHRIS HALLETT.
Issue 0605
March 3, 1999
If you want water, build your own pipeline, NT Govt. tells rural
residents. CHRIS HALLETT reports.
A new dawn for heritage conservation? Guest editorial by BRUCE STRONG.
Electoral redistribution in the wind. Report by CHRIS HALLETT.
Tribal leader defends govt. plans to axe bi-lingual education.
Issue 0604
February 24, 1999
NT Government dumps $30m hospital project. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What Israel could teach Central Australia. Guest editorial by JOHN
ELFERINK.
NT Government spends on administration half of the Federal money for
Aboriginal education. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Comment: Education Minister Peter Adamson's foot is stuck in his mouth.
Local media the message or the massage? Report by CHRIS HALLETT.
Issue 0603
February 17, 1999
Horticulture trial on Aboriginal community could be a boom. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Todd River woes - part two of the guest editorial by MURRAY NECK.
Bush elders defend bi-lingual education. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Comment by BRIAN DEVLIN, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education,
NT University, on government moves to stop school teaching in native
languages.
Alderman Meredith Campbell to stand as an independent. Interview by
CHRIS HALLETT.
Fellow alderman Fran Erlich is in no hurry to declare her political
ambitions. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The two new political leaders, Chief Minister Denis Burke (CLP) and
Clare Martin (Labor) indicate that Central Australia will get more
attention from the movers and shakers.
Old Alice jail is saved. Report by CHRIS HALLETT.
Award-winning Aboriginal tour company announces major deals.
KIERAN FINNANE reviews painter Iain Campbell's retrospective (Part
two).
Issue 0602
February 10, 1999
Big business ignores Labor. Report by CHRIS HALLETT.
Real Estate prices dip as government sells off public housing stock.
We neglect the Todd River at our peril! Guest editorial by MURRAY NECK.
Battling blackouts. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Domestic Violence rife in Central Australia.
KIERAN FINNANE reviews painter Iain Campbell's retrospective (Part
one).
Issue 0601
February 3, 1999
Adelaide's Flinders University sets up a school in Alice Springs to
prepare health professionals for the extreme demands they are facing in
Central Australia. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Health researcher reviews what we gained and lost in the past five
years.
The NT Government has found a new device to keep its constituents in
the dark. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
COMMENT: The new year offers vital challenges.
New speed cameras are a great earner for the police. Report by CHRIS
HALLETT.
Aboriginal band heads for the big time.
A great year ahead for local sport.
Issue 0545
December 9, 1998
Enthusiasm and controversy over new Tourist Commission board members.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Tangentyere business mess revealed as accountant gets penalty.
Community groups deserve Government support. COMMENT by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Town council role in alcohol measures: Alderman Campbell speaks out.
World class walking trail proceeds at crawl. Report by CHRIS HALLETT.
Issue 0544
December 2, 1998
Chief Minister an "upstart"?
Alice Springs awash in alcohol. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Personal best serves community. COMMENT by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Copyright breachers "may be sung to death", say letter writers.
AIDS fight hits sex diseases. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Arts Minister in deep water - again - over Centre Stage. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0543
November 25, 1998
Care or Cane? How to stop youth suicides. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Planning or pruning for growth? COMMENT by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
We should be world leaders with our constitution, says letter writer.
What grog restrictions could do. Report by CHRIS HALLETT.
The arid land is our great resource. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
"Tread Lightly" and save our bush, says Four Wheel Drive correspondent
JOL FLEMING.
Young performing artists want better management and more government
funds, reports KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0542
November 18, 1998
Aboriginal land council wants deals powers for tribal regions. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Chief Minister in new satehood row.
Getting old is not so bad when you consider the alternative. COMMENT by
JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Scrap the states, says letter writer.
Sun, space our major yet largely untapped assest. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Saving electricity is even better than solar power. Report by CHRIS
HALLETT.
New works for Alice Collection, Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0541
November 11, 1998
New airport owners focus on property development as the aviation
business continues to nosedive. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Will town council take over alcohol fight? Report by CHRIS HALLETT.
Freemasons' handshake no longer secret. COMMENT by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Territory Insurance Company in deep water over flood rules. Report by
CHRIS HALLETT.
Travel in the Outback makes Austrian the comeback-kid.
The winners' circle of the Alice Prize. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0540
November 4, 1998
A school nurse speaks out. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Police keeps lid on crime figures, says MLA.
The Centre can run its own affairs. COMMENT by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Town council to push heritage attractions.
A Minister or $2500? COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Going bush? Be nice! By JOL FLEMING.
Domestic violence: Help is a little closer. By CHRIS HALLETT.
Centre Stage: Deadlock nears resolution.
Black artists dominate Alice Prize. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0539
October 28, 1998
Tourism Minister Stone snubs industry as he closes Tokyo bureau. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Centre Stage: The show may go on!
A lot of strength in Central Australia. COMMENT by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Four-wheel-driving in the heat. By JOL FLEMING.
Clever Alice. Report by KIERAN FINNANE continues.
What price a policeman? Report by CHRIS HALLETT.
Issue 0538
October 21, 1998
Commercial TV ratings war. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Olympic torch relay handout to Ayers Rock Aborigines.
Places to see, things to do. COMMENT by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Sacred sites horror ... not in this subdivision! Report by CHRIS
HALLETT.
Human Rights Commissioner: Prison should be last, not first resort.
Interview by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Principal in the dark as school nurses get the chop. Report by KIERAN
FINNANE.
Clever Alice: Arid zone scientists "rediscover" the outback. By KIERAN
FINNANE.
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA: Foot-in-mouth Parliamentarian Richard Lim.
Issue 0537
October 14, 1998
Beef scheme may create 100 jobs. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI says Eastsiders aren't afraid to get their
hands dirty.
No laws to stop spread of Mexican Poppy, a noxious weed.
Issue 0536
October 7, 1998
The "real" statehood process is just beginning after shock referendum
loss. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
COMMENT: What Chief Minister Shane Stone got wrong. By LEX SILVESTER.
COMMENT: Yes to Statehood. No to Stonehood. By ERWIN CHLANDA.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI asks: Are we becoming the State of Confusion?
Town Centre needs car parking for workers, says real estate manager.
Town's arts complex gets big grant, but Minister muzzles director.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Rugby about to see the light.
A shot in the arm for the Finke Desert Race.
Top artists paints in a gallery but lives in the creek.
Issue 0535
September 30, 1998
Dondas says Territory needs new a constitution process. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
COMMENT: Chief Minister should resign over statehood fiasco.
Minor parties: The "balance of power" brigade.
Letter writers have their say.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI explains why she'll be voting "yes" in the
statehood referendum.
Managers can't agree on who runs what in the new cultural precinct.
Interview with Labor candidate Warren Snowdon: Keeping an eye on
Territory spending - but how?
Interview with CLP candidate Nick Dondas: Top End deals are a boon for
Central Australia.
Politicians get stage fright over drama group funding.
Booze boss firm but not fervent. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Plucky gallery gets a new home.
KIERAN FINNANE reviews a new book by Centralian author Terry Whitebeach.
Issue 0534
September 23, 1998
Exit Centre Stage: Minister kills off drama club. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI reflects on our Territory art treasures.
The Australian Democrats: Statehood is a good time for the hard
questions. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Nature and art combine in new cultural precinct. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Checks needed on work for the dole program. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0533
September 16, 1998
The Territory's REAL unemployment figures are the worst in the nation.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI says Territory women fought hard for their vote.
Alcohol group says Tennant Creek booze trial shows that restrictions
work.
Junior Chamber gets the green light.
Young people say booze, drugs are town's main worries.
Legal wrangles in the Pitjantjatjara Council.
Draft constitution must be clarified, say democratic statehood
campaigners.
The largest bird ever to have live was a duck!
Issue 0532
September 9, 1998
Territory draft constitution no check on government powers. Report by
CHRIS HALLETT.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI tells about Territorians who "get cracking".
Another lost generation in the making? ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
The world gains from work of Alice scientists. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
New laws but no money to deal with mental health issues.
Artist bowled over by Central Australia's colours.
Issue 0531
September 2, 1998
Could the dollar crash be a boon for Alice Springs tourism?
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI says the tyranny of distrance is no more.
Cyber casino is a big community sponsor (Part II).
Alice Springs' arid zone scientists have a world edge.
Issue 0530
August 26, 1998
The Territory Government's refusal to allow democratic debate on
statehood and the constitution drives the issue into the Federal arena.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI says governing the Territory has always been a
hot potato.
Goods and Services Tax: Parties differ over impact on Territory.
Alice casino takes gambling into cyberspace.
Our Centre for Appropriate Technology exports Alice brain power.
New grog moves in Alice.
A "performance lab" for Alice arts.
Issue 0529
August 19, 1998
Town council health probe of Aboriginal finge camp. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
What the NT Government pays for the Ayers Rock resort.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI urgest the NT Government to put the new
constitution to the referendum.
The NT University's Dr Alistair Heatley says a Goods and Services Tax
won't dinimish Canberra's funding for the Territory.
The Territory's new literacy plan doesn't spell it out, finds KIERAN
FINNANE.
Arid zone science - Alice Springs could lead the way!
Issue 0528
August 12, 1998
Cyber move as Tourist Commission restructures. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Black health focus of new university centre in Alice Springs.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI finds new way of letting off steam against
banks and insurance companies.
Does Alice need a new bus terminal or community centre - or both? By
KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice's own construction tycoon, German-born Paul Sitzler. Part Two of
our Series.
"Manufacturing" is more than meets the eye, says Chamber of Commerce
boss.
Will Aborigines disaffected with the statehood process call for
Canadian Inuit style self-government?
Photographer in a land rich with marks.
Issue 0527
August 5, 1998
Labour force worries in the table grapes industry. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Call to contiune chest disease vaccinations.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI reflects on the days when Outback Alice knew
how to make its own fun.
How German-born Paul Sitzler became the town's construction tycoon.
Series by KIERAN FINNANE.
Alice fringe camp misery continues.
Who should have the say in arts funding?
Issue 0526
July 29, 1998
Fringe campers are out in the cold as organisations squabble. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
COMMENT: The photos they didn't want you to see.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI says the the Folk Club has been great fun since
before TV hit The Centre.
How the artists themselves can benefit from the booming Aboriginal art
industry.
When Memorial Drive was a gravel airstrip. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0525
July 22, 1998
Man succeeds in five year struggle to see his medical files. Report by
KIERAN FINNANE.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI says the Alice Show and Expo should be combined.
Will Canberra take over Aboriginal education?
Crime statistics don't make sense. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Criminalising drunkenness "needs to be discussed".
Art dollars from the desert.
Black movies. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0524
July 15, 1998
Let's celebrate next year's 30th anniversary of the lunar landing
in the "moonscape" of Central Australia? Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI says Territory statehood will soon hit the
headlines again.
Cyberspace dole queue? KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Self-drive and conventions bolster tourism industry. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Living in the desert needs a re-think, says architect.
Issue 0523
July 8, 1998
Native title deal set to ease the land shortages in Alice Springs.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The proposed Junior Chamber of Commerce gets a knock-back.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI on zero tolerance policing: The more things
change ...
A letter writer says June's opened old wounds in her comments about the
women's shelter.
"Progressive aldermen" - what have they been up to? KIERAN FINNANE
reports.
COMMENT: Are we really ready for statehood?
How should Alice Springs grow?
Issue 0522
July 1, 1998
A juniuor Chamber of Commerce has a rocky start. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI speaks to a pioneer who is looking into the
future.
A review proposes changes to the town planning system to make it more
open and democratic. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Issue 0521
June 24, 1998
Central Australian ATSIC head Eileen Hoosan wants more local
control over the Aboriginal funding body's $17m budget for the region.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI looks at the ups and downs of the local women's
refuge.
COMMENTS ON 20 YEARS OF TERRITORY SELF GOVERNMENT
The NT University's Dr Alistair Heatley, new Labor Senator Trish
Crossin, sitting CLP Senator Grant Tambling and Nick Dondas, the
Territory's sole Member of the House of Representatives in Canberra,
look at what self-government has - and has not - achieved for us, and
whether it has prepared us for full statehood scheduled for 2001.
Signs of action on the public health debacle in The Centre as Minister
Denis Burke continues to lambast the Alice Springs News in the
Legislative Assembly for informing the public.
The widening of a drain irritates residents and points up inadequacies
in our planning process.
Alice Springs stages the nation's biggest exhibition of "bush" art.
KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Issue 0520
June 17, 1998
Kim Beazley hits out at Shane Stone over crime fighting, reports
ERWIN CHLANDA, while KIERAN FINNANE looks back 20 years when
drunkenness was a crime. Former Senator Bernie Kilgariff didn't approve
of it then.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI comments on the horrors of domestic violence.
The NT Tourist Commission gets into the wholesaling business.
Where's the Finke Desert Race heading?
The Aboriginal production house CAAMA is gearing up for a bush TV
soapie.
Issue 0519
June 10, 1998
The Alice Springs Town Council reveals an exciting new strategy. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI comments on a great Territory lady.
Is fine arts just a hobby, asks KIERAN FINNANE.
TV star rejects allegations of illegal use of a camel.
Land care group points up the beauty of Ilparpa Valley.
The Finke Desert Race trophy stays in The Alice - but only just!
Issue 0518
June 3, 1998
Local builders want $30m hospital extensions now. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Taxi owners battle Transport Minister.
A week-end with politicians wall to wall, says columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI.
How informed is Health Minister Denis Burke? Comment.
Whose camel was it on TV?
Town gears up for nation's biggest desert race.
Students in plays from Europe with messages for Central Australia.
Issue 0517
May 27, 1998
Big push to get Alice Springs' economy going. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
The new owners of the Alice airport will do their bit to promote
Central Australia.
Our new Senate candidate will have her job cut out when she steps into
the shoes of Bob Collins, says columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Our top car dealer says 'politics is not for me'.
St Philip's College gets a new hall.
Alice artists shine in craft show. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0516
May 20, 1998
The Institute for Aboriginal Development won't be moved by the
Territory Government. Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
More shock revelations about the Territory Government's health
services. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Shower with a friend, says Columnist JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Arts Minister Daryl Manzie just can't get his facts right. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
Never look back, says top car dealer Peter Kittle.
Campaign for an Outback Highway crossing Australia from east to west.
A Brecht play for the Centralian College.
Issue 0515
May 13, 1998
Darwin railway may become trade-off for Mt Johns Valley native title
deal. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI: A grand lady of the Northern Territory.
People are frightened to speak out, says Alderman Fran Erlich. Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Are packaging industry litter claims just rubbish?
Peter Kittle: Our top car dealer's long term plans.
Peter Toyne running not just for election. By PAUL FITZSIMONDS.
Issue 0514
May 6, 1998
Health Row: New allegations. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Allied Health woes - as seen by a patient.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI: The Aboriginal Affairs Minister has a
tough job.
Is the Minister lying on arts funding? Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Youth suicides: The ball is in our court.
The town's top car dealer gets a big award.
Mike's Shed - Part Three. By KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0513
April 29, 1998
Theatre in Central Australia gets a raw deal from the Territory
Government. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
GERARD WATERFORD comments on the Territory Government's allied health
fiasco.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI: When the Apex Club was running the
Territory.
COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA: The Chief Minister's double standards on
Aboriginal native title.
The public has a victory on highway plants victory.
Mandatory sentencing gets mixed report card.
Mike Gillam's shed - Part Two by KIERAN FINNANE
Issue 0512
April 22, 1998
Central Australian allied health services in deep crisis, says report.
Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Churches move on youth suicide wave.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI: Our heritage alive and well!
The tin shed the bulldozers didn't get.
Northern Territory Mandatory sentencing to face High Court challenge.
Jo Dutton's book about a town without solace. Review by KIERAN FINNANE
Issue 0511
April 15, 1998
New airport owners will aim for more passengers.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI: The Statehood Convention winds up.
Who runs the supposedly Aboriginal owned investment company,
Centrecorp? Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Why "Pommy Les" left town. Profile by KIERAN FINNANE
Issue 0510
April 8, 1998
Our highways will get oleanders - despite strong public protest.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI: Statehood Convention hits a few hurdles.
Should the Territory Parliament get a House of Review? ERWIN CHLANDA
reports.
Save the Old Gaol, says heritage boss.
Centre Stage Hamlet convincing, moving. Review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0509
April 1, 1998
Aboriginal native title claimants in a major land develpment deal.
Exclusive report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Why we need to make moves towards statehood more democratic. Comment by
Colin McDonald QC.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI: Territory Chief Minister Shane Stone
may not get what he wants from the Statehood Convention.
Land prices level off and flats are getting cheaper.
Young woman faces a gaol sentence for minor offences.
Ayers Rock firm buys more tourism properties.
German-born builder Paul Sitzler looks back on his life of hard work
and success.
Issue 0508
March 25, 1998
Chamber of Commerce to take the pulse of Alice Springs' economy. Report
by ERWIN CHLANDA.
A wave of youth suicides hits Alice Springs.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI looks at the controversial Statehood
Convention.
Land prices level off and flats are getting cheaper.
Amnesty International takes aim at the Territory's mandatory sentencing
laws.
Issue 0507
March 18, 1998
Medical conference critical of lame anti grog mesaures. Report by ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Territory government moves to gear up for statehood are undemocratic.
Comment by COLIN McDONALD QC, president of the NT Bar Association.
Why women's issues still need to be pushed. June's Gems with JUNE
TUZEWSKI.
Trading stock whips for knitting needles? KIERAN FINNANE looks at
changes in the cattle industry.
Landcare: What we're doing - and not doing - to fight weeds.
Issue 0506
March 11, 1998
How the dream of control over the local airport evaporated. Report by
ERWIN CHLANDA.
CLP Paliamentarian Richard Lim wants to target Aborigines with alcohol
take-away restrictions.
Why and how we should save water. June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Federal Member Nick Dondas says public schools are getting more, not
less, money.
The claypans - an area featuring a stunning variety of plants - should
be a park, not a rubbish tip.
What's the future of cattle? KIERAN FINNANE is looking for answers.
Women are honoured by awards.
Issue 0505
March 4, 1998
Private schools are booming in The Alice. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
What state schools could be doing better. Comment by BRUCE SIMMONS.
Landcare Month - what it means for The Centre. June's Gems with JUNE
TUZEWSKI.
Jan Heaslip: From cattle station wife to eco tourism operator. Report
by KIERAN FINNANE.
Olive Pink Nature Park: A jewel in the heart of Alice Springs.
Allan Page: One of our great volunteers.
The strangeness of other cultures. Art review by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0504
February 25, 1998
Grog War: The Labor Party calls for more Aboriginal drinking areas -
followed by "zero tolerance" on consumption of alcohol in public
places. Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
When child care centres were feared to send women to the hairdresser's
and men to the pub: June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Land Care: Much talk - but not enough money to fight the rabbit pest.
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Resorts, rubbish and the republic: Readers have their say.
The Alice Youth Centre: A badly needed facility left to decay.
Issue 0503
February 18, 1998
Alice Springs tourism promotion supremo Merran Dobson resigns just days
after announcing a new strategy targeting the "mature affluent".
The town council and Labor are calling for container deposit
legislation.
June's Gems with JUNE TUZEWSKI.
The Old Gaol controversy heads towards its climax.
Despite catastrophic floods in Katherine, there's no progress with
flood mitigation measures in Alice Springs.
The Alice airport privatisation: Who's doing what and why?
Black cockatoos: Should they be a commercial item?
Rod Moss: A painter with a social message.
Issue 0502
February 11, 1998
Tourism promoters will target the "mature affluent" in Australia and
overseas.
Two Labor candidates, announced well before the next Territory poll is
due, outline their policies.
June's Gems by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Alice Springs' unique desert park: Its first year.
The Territory's heritage legislation will be the worst in Australia.
Tourism figure says we have to try a lot harder.
We conclude our history of the Murray Neck trading dynasty, and MAX
CARTWRIGHT's companion piece about communications in The Centre.
Dian Booth - a world class violinist who lives in The Alice.
Issue 0501
February 4, 1998
Call by alderman: Vouchers, not cash, for welfare recipients.
What will the next 10 years have in store for Alice Springs?
June's Gems - our new column by JUNE TUZEWSKI.
Outcry over poisonous and non-native plants planned for our streets.
The Murray Neck trading dynasty - we continue our feature.
Issue 0446
December 17, 1997
A new masterplan, covering the next 25 years, calls for more lodges in
national parks, and greater collaboration with Aborigines.
The new chief of the Central Australian tourism lobby is looking for
ways of dragging the industry out of its slump.
COMMENT: After a Merry Christmas - What?
Young people in prison: The effect of mandatory sentencing.
The Neck trading dynasty: How they changed The Alice in 60 years.
Sport in 1997 was great - now watch out for 1998!
Issue 0445
December 10, 1997
Bid to save the historic old gaol by selling portions of it.
Is a scathing report by Amensty International about conditions in the
old gaol the reason why the government wants to bulldoze it?
The Chief Minister talks to his Round Table of Young People - but
mandatory sentencing isn't on the agenda.
Murray Neck, head of a trading dynasty now celebrating six decades in
The Centre, recalls when The Alice was an outback town without "mod
cons", and ROSE COPPOCK chronicles a day in the life of a housewife, in
Alice Springs a few decades ago.
Issue 0444
December 3, 1997
Workers at the Ayers Rock Resort overwhelmingly reject an enterprise
bargaining agreement.
The Australian Law Reform Commission says the Territory's mandatory
sentencing laws should be overridden by the Federal Government.
Chief Minister Stone talks to young people - but about what?
CLP Parliamentarian Richard Lim attacks Fran Erlich, who's seeking to
found a new political party. Mrs Erlich responds.
The Detour program - Part Two by KIERAN FINNANE: The kids no other
school would put up with.
When nomads stop walking: Aboriginal women tell their stories in a new
book.
Issue 0443
November 26, 1997
The Territory Government diverts millions of dollars from programs
combating alcohol abuse to treatment of kidney failure - a complaint
with only a tenuous connection to booze.
The old Alice gaol is saved from demolition by the government - for the
time being - in the nick of time.
Reporter KIERAN FINNANE speaks exclusively with a 15-year-old
imprisoned in the gaol for adults.
The Detour program: A school where homework is finding a bed for the
night.
Photographer Mike Gillam speculates how art and cleverer planning could
make The Alice a better town.
Issue 0442
November 19, 1997
Has there been a deal between the NT Government and the new owner
of the Ayers Rock resort over the killing off - without any
consultation - of Local Government at Yulara?
COMMENT: Credibility of the NT Government is at a rare low.
Selling alcohol at currently "dry" settlements "would open the graves",
say Lutheran missionaries. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
A former liquor commissioner, who once declared communities "dry", says
people with long term experience aren't consulted by the alcohol
planners.
Fran Erlich, daughter of a founder of the ruling Country Liberal Party,
tells ERWIN CHLANDA why she's forming another political party.
Betty Pearce is the new head of Tangentyere. There will be big changes
in Alice Springs' biggest Aboriginal organisation, she tells ERWIN
CHLANDA.
Issue 0441
November 12, 1997
Religious Ministers in Alice Springs comment on the Federal
Government's proposed native title legislation. One says it is racist.
KIERAN FINNANE reports.
More letters from readers outraged over plans to demolish the old gaol.
KIERAN FINNANE speaks to CSIRO scientist Mark Stafford Smith about
rainfall in Central Australia - and any effect El Nino may be having.
A national judge praises local artists but awards the Alice Prize to a
Queensland painter.
The internet has put an end for good to the Tyranny of Distrance which
has long afflicted Central Australia. Our own computer nerd MATTHEW
FOWLER reflects.
Issue 0440
November 5, 1997
The Alice Springs hospital isn't short of space for expansion, the
main reason giver by the Territory Government for the planned
demolition of the historic old prison. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Writers of letters to the editor are outraged about the
"deconstruction" - the government's euphemism - of the prison.
The Ayers Rock resort is sold to an interstate company - for a
pittance.
KIERAN FINNANE speaks to local candidates for next year's
constitutional convention which may set Australia on the path to
becoming a republic.
Sexual assaults in Central Australia are mainly a family affair, KIERAN
FINNANE is told.
Singer, yarn spinner and historian Ted Egan launches his autobiography.
Issue 0439
October 29, 1997
Who's after the old gaol land? ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Prisons Minister Eric Poole is less than forthcoming about how the
government made its prison demolition decison - but reveals much about
the Cabinet decision making process.
Small business: Woes and joys. Report by GRETTA SCADDING.
Muslims in Alice Springs: The hidden people. Part Two of a report by
GRETTA SCADDING.
Watch this Space: Will we be watching this artists' haven disappear?
Report by KIERAN FINNANE.
Issue 0438
October 22, 1997
Mexican Poppy, a noxious weed, may take over the pristine dry
creekbeds of The Centre after bureaucrats failed to heed warnings for
more than two decades.
Alice character Bert Cramer talks to KIERAN FINNANE about living
next door to the US spy base Pine Gap, claimed to be a prime nuclear
target.
Local Muslims are seeking recognition of their ancestors' prime
role in "opening up" The Centre. Part One of a report by GRETTA
SCADDING.
Issue 0437
October 15, 1997
Sale of the Ayers Rock Resort: Chief Minister Shane Stone's
"normalisation" fizzes.
The lobby for alcohol sale restrictions faces a setback.
Editor ERWIN CHLANDA speaks with Liquor Commission chairman Peter
Allen.
Aboriginal land care pioneer Peter Gunner tells KIERAN FINNANE how soil
degradation in The Bush can be brought under control.
Solar energy - what are waiting for? GRETTA SCADDING reports.
Issue 0436
October 8, 1997
Clever use of the "net" helps Aboriginal company to take out top
national tourism award.
Employ Alice, aiming to boost Aboriginal employment as a measure
against antisocial behaviour, makes slow but steady progress.
Alice painter Halcyon Lucas wins the Northern Territory Art Award.
KIERAN FINNANE reviews.
Issue 0435
October 1, 1997
Tourism heavies clash with regulators over price fixing. ERWIN CHLANDA
reports.
Merran Dobson, the new general manager of the tourism lobby, CATIA,
talks about the challenges of her job, and the course the industry
should take.
Reading skills in The Centre: What impact will the Federal government's
initiatives have on the region?
The head of the Drug and Alcohol Services Association says calls to
restrict take-away sales on Thursdays and Sundays are "divisive".
Desert Treasures: KIERAN FINNANE reviews a stunning exhibition at the
Araluen Centre of Aboriginal paintings and craft work.
Issue 0434
September 24, 1997
Sections of the tourism industry are calling for the reopening of
Tourist Commission sales offices in the capital cities.
GRETTA SCADDING interviews a social worker with long term jobless
to explore why unemployment in some sections of the community is high
while jobs are plentiful.
Controversial Bishop Jack Spong causes a row with his views on gays and
women in the Anglican church.
Reading and writing standards have dropped, say local employers, as
Federal Education Minister David Kemp proposes initiatives - seen as
draconian by some - to boost literacy skills.
We talk to youngsters who prefer work to the dole.
The Eagles win their 26th Aussie Rules flag.
KIERAN FINNANE reviews the controversial Sugarman project: The
whitefellas' dreamtime story of alcohol.
Issue 0433
September 17, 1997
New Country Liberal Party Parliamentarian for MacDonnell, John
Elferink, supports a controversial push for take away alhocol bans in
Alice Springs on two days a week.
A black-owned arts and crafts business with international trade
shows the way for Aboriginal advancement, discovers reporter GRETTA
SCADDING.
Editor ERWIN CHLANDA speaks to Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John
Herron about the black unemployment "timebomb".
Plans for a print museum in The Alice hit a wall of apathy.
A campaigner for alcohol sales restrictions in Alice Springs writes
to the Alice News about the need to examine the results of similar bans
at a remote roadhouse.
Issue 0432
September 10, 1997
Jobs deal - a diversion in the alcohol strategy?
Employment - Facts and Fantasy. ERWIN CHLANDA looks at two gold
mines and a huge tourist resort where jobs are on offer - but hardly
any Aboriginal takers.
Lutheran Pastor Paul Albrecht completes an Arrarnta translation of the
Bible.
GRETTA SCADDING checks out a town council scheme to employ Aborigines.
We talk to people at the Garden Fair: They love The Alice, and many say
they'll retire here.
The Birdsville Races: Why thousands flock to the outback town, normal
population 100 - for one week-end every year.
Red-haired, blue-eyed - and Aboriginal: KIERAN FINNANE reviews a TV
documentary, produced by local CAAMA, which tells the story of two
women living in two worlds.
Issue 0431
September 3, 1997
Neil Bell, Australia's longest serving Opposition politician,
retires and former Labor stronghold MacDonnell goes to the Country
Liberal Party: Bell says he accepts no blame for the debacle.
After yet another Country Liberal Party election victory, Alice
News editor ERWIN CHLANDA asks Bell why Labor can't get within striking
distrance of government in the Northern Territory.
The violent death of his daughter prompts a local businessman to take
up the fight against alcohol abuse.
GRETTA SCADDING investigates whether jobs for young people at fast
food outlets are preparing them for a career - or are little more than
cheap child labor.
Memos break a 16 year drought to take out the rugby league grand final.
Issue 0430
August 27, 1997
Alice Springs group investigates Coober Pedy "dry areas".
A former official of a Country Liberal Party branch raises
questions about an anonymous $10,000 donation channelled through the
branch in 1987 by current Chief Minister Shane Stone.
Views on booze: Alice News editor ERWIN CHLANDA speaks to the man at
the sharp end, publican and alderman David Koch.
The CLP went to the polls early because they had no fear of losing,
says News guest writer, the NT University's Dr ALISTAIR HEATLEY.
Petty theft is just a routine: Some victins laugh, some don't,
discovers Reporter GRETTA SCADDING.
What would the ALP do about law and order? ERWIN CHLANDA asks Labor
Leader Maggie Hickey.
Issue 0429
August 20, 1997
A major tourist promotion figure, David Bennett, has been fined
$80,000 for price fixing. Will he stay at the sharp end of our main
industry?
Go north or go bush, that's the dilemma for Asian Relations and
Development Minister Eric Poole. He speaks to Alice News editor ERWIN
CHLANDA.
How backpackers see The Alice. A special report by GRETTA SCADDING.
We have our own Big Bird: It's eight million years old!
Issue 0428
August 13, 1997
Landrights claim over national park halts Glen Helen project.
Shock findings: What others think of Alice Springs.
We listen, says the Labor Opposition. To us, says the Government.
Boredom, not need, drives petty crime in The Alice. Special report by
GRETTA SCADDING.
Tourist Commission managing director Tony Mayell talks to Alice
News editor ERWIN CHLANDA about new directions in tourism promotion.
The Northern Territory's new education minister claims top marks.
New row over proposed alcohol restrictions.
Issue 0427
August 6, 1997
Support is growing for alcohol restrictions in Alice Springs.
The grog scene: Former Chief Minister Marshall Perron's words ring
hollow in view of the present-day situation.
Anti-social behaviour, through the eye of those who're doing it -
Part Two of a review by KIERAN FINNANE of Alexis Wright's new book.
Prisoners are claimed to be idle because the government doesn't want
them to compete with private enterprise.
Parents won't be getting much say in education as new Minister Peter
Adamson takes office.
Footy was the real winner as Aussie Rules celebrated its Golden
Anniversary.
Issue 0426
July 30, 1997
Doubts about the Alice to Darwin rail line proposal irk truckies.
Anti-social behaviour, through the eye of those who're doing it -
Part One of a review by KIERAN FINNANE of Alexis Wright's new book.
A government minister's response to prison riot allegations puts
pledges of open government in serious doubt. Comment by ERWIN CHLANDA.
Issue 0425
July 23, 1997
Ayers Rock Company: Winner in secret deals.
Non-gay AIDS is more common in the NT.
Not enough dunnies in Desert Park: Visitors are caught short.
Locals are leaving town, say removalist companies.
How the town council could make Alice Springs a better place.
Issue 0424
July 16, 1997
Heroin kills three in the past 12 months.
Good news for the Old Ghan train - at long last!
The young Knights of Northern Territory Chief Minister Shane Stone's
Round Table: How far to Camelot?
Vandals hit the priceless sculptures at the Pitchi Ritchi collection.
Only a few more weeks till the golden anniversary of Australian Rules
Football in Alice Springs.
Issue 0423
July 9, 1997
Bandaid measures are useless for promoting the ailing tourism
industry, says a member of a think tank reporting to the NT Tourist
Commission. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
The Australian Democrats set up shop in Alice Springs, keen to become a
force in the next elections.
Transport
Minister Barry Coulter disagrees with Greatorex MLA and party
colleague, Dr Richard Lim, over protection measures sought by the taxi
industry.
Two more people, including a member of the NT Tourist Commission, David
Bennett, are charged with hire car price fixing.
Part Aboriginal "intruders" worry a senior traditional owner, Budjana,
custodian of sections of the Larapinta Valley. BRYAN CLARK reports.
The NT Government is looking at selling public housing it owns in the
Ayers Rock Resort.
Yarn teller and prominent businessman in The Alice for 50 years, REG
HARRIS, concludes his story of of world famous black painter, Albert
Namatjira.
Issue 0422
July 2, 1997
New row over town planning: What powers does the town council REALLY
have? ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Budget cuts to the NT University will mean fee hikes and cuts to
courses.
As alcohol abuse and anti-social behaviour have become the town's major
problems, long term businessman REG HARRIS recalls how malaise started
with world famous Aboriginal painter, ALBERT NAMATJIRA.
Issue 0421
June 25, 1997
Alice magistrate: No rise in alcohol related crime. BRYAN CLARK
reports.
Plans to turn the old prison into a bus terminal and art centre. ERWIN
CHLANDA reports.
Support services for suicidal people are poor, according to the father
one one victim.
Series by BRYAN CLARK:
Problems of the new Alice prison are mounting.
The new Alice Springs gaol's remote location breaches recommendations
of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. A volunteer
group is trying to help out.
Mandatory sentencing laws are filling the prison faster than expected.
Prison costs blow out due to low staffing.
KIERAN FINNANE reports on calls that the Arts Minister should take a
back seat in grants allocations.
Issue 0420
June 18, 1997
Promoters are taking a hard look at poor visitation results amidst
calls to give TV star and "tourism ambassador" Daryl Somers the flick.
ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
School principals are on six-figure contracts - but to whom do they
answer?
Locals pour out their hearts on race relations and crime in a survey by
Stuart MLA Peter Toyne. BRYAN CLARK reports.
Aboriginal Imparja is television with fire in the belly. KIERAN FINNANE
reports.
The Labor Party would make drastic changes to town planning in the
Territory.
Issue 0419
June 11, 1997
Aborigines claim the 2000 square kilometre MacDonnell Range
National Park hours before the Land Rights Act of 1976 reaches its
sunset clause.
Is drug taking is rampant in Alice Springs schools?
The Stolen Generation: Two Alice Springs men speak to reporter JOHN
McBEATH about their agony in Part Two of our report.
The NT Government's Asian trade initiatives are short on results, says
the NT University's Dr Alistair Heatley.
Heatley is wrong, says NT Asian Trade Minister Eric Poole.
CAAMA, the Aboriginal owned TV production company in The Alice, embarks
on a brave project.
Alice rider Stephen Greenfield takes out the 22nd Finke Desert Race,
but the buggies are catching up!
Issue 0418
June 4, 1997
Alleged drug deals at the Alice Springs high school are under police
investigation.
The ruling Country Liberal party pre-selects police officer John
Elferink as its candidate for the strong Labor seat of MacDonnell.
The Stolen Generation: Two Alice Springs men speak to reporter JOHN
McBEATH about their agony.
Issue 0417
May 28, 1997
Six-figure pay deals for school principals will divide junior and
senior teaching staff as a new round of wage claims looms, says the
education union.
The ALP preselects candidates, including Lilliah McCulloch who
wants to win Araluen from the CLP by diligently researching major
issues.
The ALP's sitting member for Stuart, Peter Toyne, says a survey
he's conducting reveals petty crime and truancy as the electorate's
major concerns.
The construction industry's PAUL OPREAN says clever work
strategies are keeping local builders afloat in tough times, while new
rules on business ethics are boosting the industry's image.
Issue 0416
May 21, 1997
Aboriginal leader under drug investigation.
TV war looms in The Alice as derugulation is imminent.
Catholics outraged as Marist Brother school principal is convicted of
sex offences.
Public drunkenness: A senior police officer speaks out.
IAN BUILDER continues his recollections about the real estate business
in Alice Springs.
Issue 0415
May 14, 1997
Anti alcohol abuse campaigner Tangentyere Council wants to separate
the booze store it owns from its supermarket - but current liquor laws
are standing in the way.
The tourism lobby, CATIA, is low key on reports of an impending public
float of the Ayers Rock Resort Company.
What John Howard's Ten Point Plan on native title may or may not do for
Alice Springs.
A history group is outraged about vandalism to the grave of gold
legend, Harold Lasseter.
IAN BUILDER continues his recollections about the real estate business
in Alice Springs.
Issue 0414
May 7, 1997
Bid to keep the Ayers Rock Resort in Territory hands.
Centralian College: Admistration gets a Budget boost, but students miss
out.
Talk to us, not about us, says dying woman.
The Health Department gets a handle on the controversial palliative
care room at the Alice hospital.
Teachers get ready for new log of pay claims.
Issue 0413
April 30, 1997
A multi million dollar museum complex mooted for Alice Springs.
Illegal scavenging sparks row over dump management.
Labor Leader Maggie Hickey wants Freedom of Information laws in the NT.
Alice police win some, lose some in battle aganist crime.
Issue 0412
April 23, 1997
Planning row: Sack Minister Reed, says Alice Alderman Miers.
Roadhouse allowed to "discriminate" against Aborigines.
Palliative care: Controversy sparks late action.
Canadian academic outlines native title dilemma
KIERAN FINNANE concludes her review of Alexis Wright's book "Plains of
Promise"
Issue 0411
April 16, 1997
Nurses to seek 15 per cent pay hike.
Palliative care is at the centre of a row over red tape blocking
admissions to a special room at the Alice hospital set up with $15,000
in community donations.
A small team doing its best to help people "dying well".
The agony of petrol sniffing: A special report by BRYAN CLARK
Marathon walkers: Why do they do it?
KIERAN FINNANE talks to author Alexis Wright.
Issue 0410
April 9, 1997
Government company mum on Rock - Reef links
Council probe: Recycle or pay
Ross River fever epidemic: 18 sick
Cheaper trunk calls?
New Author: Characters take on their own life
Issue 0409
April 2, 1997
Who controls pinball parlours - the town council or the government?
MLA Loraine Braham is challenged for preselection by a party pal
Taxi operators have a gutful: They want to sell back their licences
The NT University's Dr ALISTAIR HEATLEY comments on the death of
euthanasia
ATSIC cracks down on work for the dole cheats
Alice News editor ERWIN CHLANDA talks with Industry Minister Eric Poole
about the
Darwin railway and the tourism slump
Art writer KIERAN FINNANE reviews Alexis Wright's book "Plains of
Promise"
Issue 0408
March 26, 1997
Six months booze ban: Public drinking rules work in Coober Pedy
Dole work scheme rip-off: Work for the Dole a shambles?
Police investigating dole work rip-offs
Alice economy: Which way up?
Immersion in the infinite: New Central Australian paintings on show.
Issue 0407
March 19 1997
"Dry areas may go" says Stone as public drinking in town gets out of
hand
Braitling battle for ex-chalkies: ALP names Assembly candidate
Negotiate, says ALP about native title
Eagles soar at new Desert Park
Fresh shock allegations of ATSIC work for dole rorts
PLUS FROM Issue 0408: The ATSIC response
Painting their homelands with passion and talent: Aboriginal artists
Issue 0406
March 12 1997
Todd Mall War Zone: Alice Springs' centre hit by violence
"Antisocial behaviour": Cops say all's well
Who benefits from CDEP "work for the dole"?
CDEP "work for the dole" is mostly OK, says ATSIC
Prostitution in Alice Springs: Never on a Sunday Morning.
Issue 0405
March 5 1997
Govt. Probe into Aboringinal Deal
Wine cask row: Who should stock them?
The Native Title fight
Native Title: The Central Land Council responds to Richard Lim
SPORT: 50 years Federal football club.
Issue 0404
Feburary 26 1997
Grog Mayhem: Stop talking start acting
Fuel Prices in the Outback: Are we subsidising the cities?
Issue 0403
Feburary 19 1997
Aboringinal business deal: Money questions mount
Aboriginal Education: One Graduate in Two Years
Truancy: Schools Coy in Show and Tell
ALICE SPRINGS SEWAGE PLANT DOSSIER.
Issue 0350 December 26 1996
Public drinking: How Coober Pedy fixed it.
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