Bob Gosford

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Make Australia Grate Again. Part Two - “Revenge Digs Two Graves, Makes A Young Person Old”

1 month ago | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

Be careful what you dream on, dreams come trueBe careful what you dream on, they can turn on youRevenge is a dish they say best tasted coldBut revenge digs two graves, makes a young person oldBe careful what you dream of, dreams come truePaul Kelly, Be Careful What You Pray For.
Make Australia Grate Again. Part One – Ain’t That A Kick In The Head! - The Northern Myth

1 month ago | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

Be careful what you pray for, you just might get itBe careful what you pray for, you might regret itYou get your hands on that glittering prizeNow everybody’s coming at you from every sidePaul Kelly, 2008Be Careful What You Pray ForNorthern Territory Senator Jacinta Price had a good election last week.
The Northern Myth

1 month ago | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

Starting at about 8.20 pm (NT time) last night the ABC broadcast an interview by Sarah Ferguson and Bridget Brennan with NT Senator Jacinta Price after the Coalition’s devastating – to put it mildly – loss at the 2025 Australian Federal election.
“You come at the king, you best not miss.” ABC Darwin takes a swing at Albanese – and misses - The Northern Myth

2 months ago | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

On Saturday just passed ABC Darwin broadcast a piece by local reporter Olivana Lathouris about housing at the small Aboriginal community of Binjari. Binjari is a fly-speck town just off the main road west of Katherine, 300 kilometres south of the Northern Territory’s capital Darwin. The major premise of the ABC’s piece is that for all his grand promises about housing Prime Minister Albanese and his Labor government have let the people of Binjari down.
Monsoon under glass. Darwin, March 2025

Mar 29, 2025 | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

After predictions of a dire summer rain-wise in these parts, we’ve been blessed with a late season monsoon descended on the Top End of the Northern Territory. The NT isn’t alone in getting a good drenching this summer, with Cyclone Alfred taking a slow stroll down the east coast and a large, slow-moving tropical system flooding much of the centre and inland parts north and east. One thing that marks a local up here is the welcome given to a good dose of rain.
The Residence: completely, ridiculously and refreshingly off its trolley

Mar 28, 2025 | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

The first thing to note about Netflix’s manor-house murder mystery The Residence is that it is completely, ridiculously — and refreshingly — off its trolley. Which it probably needed to be, since the titular residence is at 1600 Pennsylvania Av, Washington DC, aka the White House, home in this instance to the POTUS, plus his husband, his paranoid, alcoholic mother-in-law, and his freeloading, kleptomaniac brother.
The Northern Myth

Mar 15, 2025 | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

On Monday last – in the midst of an unprecedented leadership crisis in the NT police force and with corrections and the justice system descending into chaos – the NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro was a guest of Katie Woolf’s on her morning show on Darwin commercial radio MIX104.9FM. Katie Woolf is regarded by some as a bit of a soft touch so Finocchiaro might have thought herself on safe ground.
The Gumatj prevail in the High Court!

Mar 11, 2025 | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA v YUNUPINGU (ON BEHALF OF THE GUMATJCLAN OR ESTATE GROUP) & ORS 2025 HCA 6Today, the High Court by majority dismissed an appeal from a decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia. The appeal raised three important questions of law.
Dear Police Commissioner Murphy: “Better get a lawyer, son … better get a real good one”

Mar 11, 2025 | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

Operation Apollo & The Voldemort clauseEight months on from the 2024 NT general election there is little evidence that any of the proposed reforms and commitments Murphy announced at Garma in August have been commenced or implemented, whether in part or whole. Any sense of monsoon seasonal torpor was dispelled on Friday February 28, when Patricia Kelly SC, retired President of the South Australian Court of Appeal and NT ICAC delegate, dropped a bombshell Public Statement.
The Northern Myth

Mar 10, 2025 | thenorthernmyth.com | Bob Gosford

Then the officer saidYou better get a lawyer, sonYou better get a real good oneYou better get a lawyer, sonYou better get a real good oneBetter get a lawyer. The Cruel Sea, 1994Commissioner Michael Murphy is a 28-year veteran of the NT Police Force and has spent more than half his life serving the NT. He graduated from the NT Police Academy in 1997 after following his sister to the Top End from his home on Sydney’s northern beaches.