University researchers found that oil and gas industry propaganda is telling only part of the fracking story, writes Naomi Hogan of Lock the Gate NT.
University researchers found that oil and gas industry propaganda is telling only part of the fracking story, writes Naomi Hogan of Lock the Gate NT.
Local sparkie Nathan Foote (pictured) gives charity a hand looking after thousands of people in Africa needing medical care, writes Melissa Mason of Mercy Ships Australia.
The low aromatic fuel has cut sniffing by almost 88% in 17 communities but some servos still refuse to stock it, writes Blair McFarland (pictured).
Dysfunctional homes my be driving them into the care of the state. By ERWIN CHLANDA. IMAGE from the Facebook site Abandoned Prams of Central Australia. FULL STORY »
Professor Rolf Gerritsen (pictured) says combine obligations to rellies with guiding tourists, writes CDU Media Officer Katie Weiss.
“Clean” Territory gas would have dangerous methane as by-product writes Naomi Hogan (pictured), of the Lock the Gate Alliance NT.
No taxpayers’ money for political advertisements pledges Michael Gunner (pictured), writes media advisor.
Central Desert Regional Council which, on a per-capita basis has a budget six times greater than the Alice Springs Town Council, is fine-tuning activities in child and aged care, education, law and order and the local economy. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Central Land Council also calls for more government support for victims of “extreme rate of alcohol consumption”. PHOTO: Tipping out alcohol outside the Congress shop in 1990. Alice Springs News Online archive.
But Gunner will work with the town council to breathe life into the Mall, writes Robyn Lambley (pictured).
“The difficulty will be to draw together all these strands into recommendations that can be implemented.” KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
Pine Gap is significant to the economy, employment in Alice Springs, says Damien Ryan. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
UPDATE November 10, 10:30am: “Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand the Value of US Bases Overseas.”
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Pauline Cass (pictured) disagrees with the Government’s version of what happened with online submissions on the fracking inquiry. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
UPDATE 4:45pm: Vowles slams lid on submissions.
UPDATE October 16: “Open and transparent fracking consultation” claims Lauren Moss, Minister for Environment. FULL STORY »
Northern Land Council CEO Joe Morrison (pictured) grapples with the notion that Aborigines are land rich but development poor. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
UPDATE 1am November 9.
“If we just keep locking kids up, we just keep growing the business of locking kids up,” says newly appointed Deputy CEO of Territory Families, Jeanette Kerr.
Interview by KIERAN FINNANE. FULL STORY »
And children steal 17 mobile phones and $1000 worth of grog, police allege. FULL STORY »
After six years the Big hART project has reached an ending of sorts but hopes for a lasting legacy. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
Stamp duty relief, renovation grant maKe “amazing difference,” says real estate Steffi Hart (pictured). Report by ERWIN CHLANDA.
His arrest co-incides with the launch of the Central Desert Regional Council’s Family Wellbeing Strategy. ERWIN CHLANDA reports. PHOTO: President Adrian Dixon.
UPDATE October 18
“Queen Aero Naughtical” got the tick, a homage to pioneer women pilots. Words by KIERAN FINNANE, photos by ERWIN CHLANDA. FULL STORY »
Failure to have cattle de-horning declared as animal cruelty is a “significant win for the pastoral industry,” says defendant’s lawyer. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
UPDATE October 17: The RSPCA replies.
China is the world’s biggest investor in non-fossil energy. Gunner should have talked about that, not gas, writes Jimmy Cocking.
This new book drives home just how heavily imprinted on the present town map is its colonial history, but author Stuart Traynor tells a more multifaceted story. KIERAN FINNANE reviews. FULL STORY »
Historian Charlie Ward’s book, A Handful of Sand, recasts the moment not as the start of something, but as coming in the middle of a process of enormous social change. KIERAN FINNANE spoke with the author. FULL STORY »
Taxpayer funding puts “issues” into the public interest domain. Club chairman Craig Lambley is in the centre of the photo. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
The decision to do so lies with the counsels assisting, Peter Callaghan SC (left) and Tony McAvoy SC (right). ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Results will go to the AGM of the Cattlemen’s Association in March and to the NT Government, says Tracey Hayes (pictured). ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
… and the Speaker will be an Independent, Kezia Purick at the moment, says Natasha Fyles (pictured).
Alice has no civil defence measures in case of a nuclear attack on the base, writes Bevan Ramsden, of Lambton, NSW. PHOTO: Kristian Laemmle-Ruff.
The role, in Territory Families, brings together domestic violence, child protection and youth justice under one coordinated umbrella. FULL STORY »
An Indigenous cultural centre in Alice Springs, tourism from Asia, the revheads’ NATS, battling buffel and the Parrtjima festival (pictured) are all works in progress. ERWIN CHLANDA speaks with new Minister Lauren Moss.
The website recording comments wasn’t working for part of the brief consultation period. Fracking opponents demand an extension of the deadline. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
UPDATE 10:10am.
Advisory body’s focus is far too narrow, says Katherine action group as deadline for public comment nears. ERWIN CHLANDA reports. PHOTO provided by the group shows industrialisation of the hydraulically fractured Jonah shale Gasfield, USA.
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Tuesday, 5:40pm: The exploration licence given by the Giles Government to Origin just days before the election will not permit the company to use fracking while the new government’s moratorium is in place. FULL STORY »
A reliable source says they smashed windows, damaged cars and in one office, set light to files. Aged eight to 10, they will not be prosecuted, say police, who are working with the children’s families. KIERAN FINNANE reports.
Generous grants to operators for promotion and infrastructure improvements went a long way, says Rex Neindorf (pictured at left in the photo), of the iconic Reptile Centre. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Some prisoners “sentenced to a job” were declining parole so that they could keep their paid work, a “perverse consequence” of the over-emphasised scheme which came at a cost to other programs. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
… and only in the NT the rate for women exceeds the rate for men: Curtin University study. ERWIN CHLANDA reports. PHOTO: Altercation in the CBD.
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A torrent of people parading through Todd Mall last night to usher in the 16th Masters Games. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
It’s money going “down the drain” if you want to rehabilitate. KIERAN FINNANE reports from the Royal Commission’s visit to Yuendumu. FULL STORY »
… and the impending review has no guidelines. When it comes to the “space base” local government sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Town outperformed The Rock in 2015-16, says the research. Alice is being seen as a destination in its own right rather than a place on the way to somewhere else, says Chamber of Commerce CEO Kay Eade. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Department for a new CEO, Ken Davies (pictured) but kept its old habits of lacking transparency. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
UPDATE 11:35am with information from the department.
UPDATE October 28: St Philip’s students in war on buffel.
Bigger and more powerful than ever, Pine Gap is part of “a great upsurge” in American military presence in Australia, an expert tells a packed public meeting in Alice Springs. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
The biggest and hardest lesson from past campaigns is that we are now much further from closing Pine Gap than we were (or at least we thought we were) 30 years ago, writes RUSSELL GOLDFLAM. FULL STORY »
Pine Gap protests: Days of debate ignored by most. By ERWIN CHLANDA. Photo: Senator Scott Ludlam (black shirt) speaking at the gates to Pine Gap.
UPDATE 1:45pm
UPDATE 10:42pm on October 4.
The Country Liberal Party chose the wrong candidates, says Steve Brown (pictured), long-time member and candidate for Araluen. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Scott Ludlam (pictured) tells Pine Gap public forum that the Australian Prime Minister’s office is just another “jointly operated outpost” of the United States. ERWIN CHLANDA reports. FULL STORY »
They forgot to apply the letter of the law and the charges were thrown out. KIERAN FINNANE reports. Pictured from left, activists Tim Webb, Franz Dowling, Jim Dowling and Margaret Pestorious. Not shown, Andy Paine. FULL STORY »
Children are consigned to untrained staff, long waiting lists for counselling and health needs, hasty reunification with family who are then not supported to care for them: these are among the failings of the ‘out of home care’ system. KIERAN FINNANE reports from yesterday’s community meeting with Royal Commissioners Mick Gooda and Margaret White (pictured). FULL STORY »
Claim by festival organisers are contested. ERWIN CHLANDA reports. PICTURED are Giles Wesley (left), lighting projection artist, and Anthony Bastic, director of light, from AGB Events, at the launch of the event last Friday.
SHAUN ANGELES, an Indigenous Repatriation Researcher at the centre, speaks of working with a collection whose essence is “all about sacred land management practice and human wellbeing management”. FULL STORY »
And “there is no one who has done more work on the Central Australia of 100 years ago and there probably never will be”, according to Alice Springs historian Dick Kimber. FULL STORY »
They are “more like a board” and the Local Government Act denies them hands-on management, says Cr Eli Melky (pictured).
But the training facility is mum on some questions about jobs for students and its budget. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw (pictured) calls for a Violent Offender Register so people like Carlie Sinclair don’t have to die any more.
A dreamtime story, millions of taxpayers’ dollars and the local creative community left out in the cold: The Festival in Light gets heavy. ERWIN CHLANDA reports. Video: The hunter and the dog on Mount Gillen.
Comedian Matt Okine (pictured) takes aim at cooking shows, haters on social media, the badness of Mondays and vegan guilt, writes reviewer MORGAN RICHARDS.
Council firm on six month trespass notice, makes offer which Kevin Coyle (pictured) considers “unsuitable”. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
When the wind stopped electricity costs in South Australia went through the roof, writes Tony Wood, of the Grattan Institute.
$100,000 birthday present for Olive Pink Garden from Peter Fannin (pictured), one of the co-founders of the world famous dot painting movement. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Young people from Warburton Ranges celebrate contemporary youth culture on the Ngaanyatjarra lands and lay the foundation of a social enterprise. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
Spin doctors are getting into high gear ahead of Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s dinner to launch the Festival in Light. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
UPDATE 3:45pm
UPDATE 12:50pm September 23
Two deaths that were the subject of the recent coronial inquest into “extreme domestic violence” were the tipping point for Coroner Greg Cavanagh. KIERAN FINNANE reports on his findings, handed down this morning. FULL STORY »
Taxi credit card charges reduced from 10% to 5%, night rides must be pre-paid, writes SIMON SAUNDERS, of the NT Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics.
UPDATE September 30, 1:45pm re surcharges
Talking, reading, playing and lots of praise: It all needs to happen in the first thee years of our children’s lives, says Congress CEO Donna Ah Chee (pictured) in her keynote address to the Chronic Diseases Network Conference. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
ORIC takes elected officials, included Rosalie Kunoth-Monks (pictured) to task over suspension of members, decisions at meetings, appointment of directors. EXCLUSIVE by ERWIN CHLANDA.
After 12 years at the helm of Screen Territory, retiring director Penelope McDonald looks back on the industry’s progress and forwards to her own future. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
Swimmer training for international event says he’s left high and dry for six month without coherent explanation. PHOTO: Mates in the pool (left to right) Deanne Ward, Tamara Shirvington, Nat Stepan, Lynn Treis, Fiona Coyle, Kevin Coyle, Duncan Rogers.
UPDATE: 11am September 23
Single teenage mothers and irresistible energy drinks span a wide range of topics at the Public Health Association conference. ERWIN CHLANDA reports. Photos: Limin Buchanan and Jackie Bradshaw (at right).
An artist focusses our attention on the military base about which we have become so blasé, writes KIERAN FINNANE. FULL STORY »
The feisty disability advocate and state finalist for Senior Australian of the Year 2015, passed away this morning.
Five words are at the centre of a row between the environmentalist sector and the new Chief Minister. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
The anti-fracking lobby, which has played a major role in the NT election campaign, is outraged over what new Chief Minister Michael Gunner has announced this morning about the moratorium that was a cornerstone of his policies. ALEC spokeswoman Nicole Pietsch (pictured) has joined the Lock the Gate Alliance in an attack on the new Chief Minister.
UPDATE 4:50pm
The annual exhibition from art centres, in its 26th year, offers an inspiring survey of priorities for Aboriginal people in our region. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
Permits to protest under Town Council By-laws can cost $80 a day but is this democratic and fair, asks Councillor Jade Kudrenko. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
Chief Minister Michael Gunner (pictured), in the announcement of his team, has apparently re-named the national indigenous art and culture centre in Alice Springs to which both major parties gave much attention in the campaign. It is now called “Iconic Indigenous Art Gallery”. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
The “Parrtjima – A Festival in Light” should be cancelled because it will harm rock wallabies, claims a petition on a global website. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.
Three yellow daisies from a little girl among other gifts marked Enid Harland’s 20 years as volunteer.
“Fairy circles”: they sound like something out of a Disney film but the term is actually at the heart of a scientific debate being conducted at the highest level. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »
The term “elder” is generally linked to the person having knowledge and how to be wise to speak on or share the knowledge, writes Michael Liddle, of Alice Springs. FULL STORY »
Some roads may be cut. PHOTO courtesy HANS THOLSTRUP: Low clouds sit on top of the Olgas.
The government needs to honour its commitment on palliative care hospice in Alice, writes ROBYN LAMBLEY (pictured).
The annual flower exhibition will open at the Residency this afternoon. ERWIN CHLANDA reports. FULL STORY »
An Assistant Minister for A Vibrant Darwin CBD yet no defined focus on Local Government? Mayor Damien Ryan is concerned. KIERAN FINNANE reports. FULL STORY »