Editorial
06 Nov 09 | LAST week on behalf my colleague the Minister for Central Australia Karl Hampton, I launched the Tennant Creek Economic Profile, the first comprehensive overview of the town’s economy.
30 Oct 09 | THE debate about future directions for long term health reform in Australia is both old and new with the Territory adding further dimensions to the challenges of service delivery.
23 Oct 09 | HOSPITALS play a central role in the lives of everyone in the Barkly.
09 Oct 09 | I WOULD like to introduce the new Barkly Electorate officer, Nancy Cowan.
02 Oct 09 | COMMUNITY events don’t happen by chance, they are largely the product of volunteers who share in a spirit of ‘what can we do for our community.’
18 Sep 09 | AS Minister for Transport you receive each and every road fatality report and it shocks you to the core!
18 Sep 09 | AS much as I do not want to get into a personal slanging match with our local MLA, I feel I must reply to his ludicrous (“Too easy for allegations: MLA”, TDT 11/9/2009).
11 Sep 09 | AS Minister for Correctional Services, I meet or read about many Territorians who are affected by our justice system and last week was one example of grave concern yet hope.
04 Sep 09 | HAVING been given portfolio responsibility for Arts and Museums, including Archives and Libraries, in the recent Ministerial reshuffle, I have a genuine stakehold in seeing art and culture at the heart of our community.
28 Aug 09 | THE Territory – and in particular the Barkly – did well out of Mr Rudd’s $42 billion Nation Building and Jobs Plan with money allocated for building infrastructure and saving jobs.
21 Aug 09 | WELL it’s been quite a week in politics and I just want to point out a few ‘truths’ to the people of the Barkly.
14 Aug 09 | AT the time of writing, the future of the NT Government hangs in the balance after the defection of the Member for MacDonnell to the cross benches in Parliament this week.
07 Aug 09 | THE 9 August is regarded as the International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations which for me reflects on an ancient world of tribal boundaries far removed from the post modern global village we now occupy.
31 Jul 09 | THE Longtails usually complete a show with ‘Roadhouse Blues’ by the Doors and that famous opening line, “keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel” was certainly running through my brain last week as I criss-crossed six NT highways.
24 Jul 09 | OPENING the 30th Tennant Creek and District Show was a real highlight for me as an MLA and celebrating this event with my colleagues and community brought home the importance of such an opportunity for both town and country folk.
03 Jul 09 | ONLY yesterday I talked to the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Jenny Macklin Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the Regional Manager of the New Future Alliance SIHIP project, my Northern Territory Cabinet colleagues and a number of Barkly constituents and they say, ‘a week is a long time in politics!’
19 Jun 09 | “THAT, notwithstanding anything contained in Standing Orders and Sessional Orders there be appointed an Estimates Committee of the Legislative Assembly for the purposes of examining and reporting on the estimates of proposed expenditure contained in the Appropriation Bill 2009/2010.”
12 Jun 09 | LAST week Chief Minister Paul Henderson said: “The Government maintains a working majority on the floor of Parliament and we’ll be getting on with the job,” and that’s exactly what is happening in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.
05 Jun 09 | WHEN I arrived in the Northern Territory my only vision related to starting a school for a group of children living on a remote cattle station south east of Tennant Creek.
29 May 09 | I WORKED for a couple of decades out bush, in some of the more remote parts of the Barkly.