Comment on stories in the ‘NT News’ and ‘Sunday Territorian’

Thank you Finnochario Government

I wake every morning and thank the NT for electing the Finocchario Government to power on August 24 2024. The territory had flatlined. Now vibrance and a feeling of well-being starting to rejuvenate this place. That is such a good thing.

Muirhead Assault

Muirhead is one of our newer suburbs and is claimed by many to be ‘upmarket’. It now seems that the area is not immune to those social behaviours and physical manifestations that have become ingrained into the older and more established suburbs. Nowhere is immune from these assaults on people and property.

Grant Tambling Passes Away

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Senator Tambling was a fine man, a practical politician, and an unswerving supporter of the NT and its people of all persuasions. His contributions to representing this place were constant, both within the NT and later in Canberra. He never wavered from considering the Territory and Territorians ‘first and foremost’ in all he did. Every time I drive down Tambling Terrace, I appreciate his contributions to the NT. A good life has ended, but the great work he did will live on.

Assistance for students to offset training costs

How wonderful it would be if this assistance program were extended to ALL domestic students at Charles Darwin University. I hear so much about how important, necessary, and vital international students are but very, very little about our own homegrown cohort. 

Darwin City is so changed to how it used to be

As a long-time Darwin resident, I often reflect on our city in 1987 – when we came to Darwin from elsewhere in the Territory – compared to how the city reflects on us all in 2025. There are upsides and downsides, but it is sad that we have a situation of feeling the city is more challenged now, than before the last 40 years of development really began. Where to from here is the question that sits in my mind.

Bring goshawks to Darwin

Can we please have some  Goshawks come to Darwin to help FC clean out the epidemic of cockatoos that are all over the place, invading yards, our parks, roadsides, rooftops and everywhere else, from dawn to dusk every day?

Peter and Anthony both on the trail

The Federal Election outcome will be a ‘nip and tuck’ affair with both major parties being touted to push close to governing for the next three years. We are in for significant weeks of campaigning.

There is rebuilding to be done

The CLP has the resource and the initiative to take the Territory to a better social and economic place and I have little doubt this will be achieved. After eight years of the previous government, there is a lot of rebuilding to be done.

ALP commitment to Katherine

There are two components to this announcement. On the one hand, the program when implemented will provide critical infrastructure and facilities for the town. But on the other is this project, along with multiple other promised projects, will keep plunging our country ever further into what seems to be everlasting debt. Then there is the question of how long it will be before this commitment becomes an actuality.

NT Hospitals to be identified by the one flag

Maybe all this leftist-leaning recognition is starting to fade. Maybe we are returning, albeit slowly, to the prevailing of common sense. Groups within our country are groups with their own identification. But Australia is ONE country home to ALL its people, and we should stand united and identified by one flag.