
Bob Gosford
Contributor at Crikey
some of this and some of that...and a tendency to sloth...particularly in the build up...
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3 weeks ago |
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.
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3 weeks ago |
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.
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1 month ago |
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.
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1 month ago |
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.
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1 month ago |
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.
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5 years ago I went for a 5,000 kilometre drive around the NT during COVID lockdown. These pics are from the Tablelands Highway - straight up the guts of the Barkly Tablelands @barklyhomestead @heartbreakhotel_nt @bob_gosford @the_northern_myth #tablelandshighway #covid_19 https://t.co/G41qc4xEaI

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When Pot was King: the 1976 Batchelor crop Sgt Maley: Thompson was arrested & taken to his house. “A healthy plant can produce 5 lbs of cannabis,” Sgt Maley said ... the crop would have realised a couple of tonnes. More: https://t.co/qWQn3TxFTE #Cannabis #ganja @TheNorthernMyth https://t.co/1H9W5JxF5i