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Erwin Chlanda

Alice Springs

Happily married, father of four, love Central Australia and all forms of aviation. Journalist all my life, editor of the Alice Springs News Online. Visit us!

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  • 1 week ago | arr.news | Erwin Chlanda

    Local police intelligence personnel track known regional grievances, according to a spokesman, replying to questions from the Alice Springs News whether initiatives are in place to prevent criminal payback after alleged events such as last Thursday’s in Gregory Terrace. A 22-year-old man was charged with one count of Acts Intended to Cause Serious Harm. The 27-year-old victim was taken to Adelaide for treatment.

  • 2 weeks ago | arr.news | Erwin Chlanda

    Wati Mai brings starving people food, feeds homeless people, gives them magic water. Spider Girl Kungka helps kids stay safe. Comes out at night. Throws webs. Scares kids to go home and makes them go to sleep ready for school. Wati Tjina helps people who are lost to find their way home. He knows all the footprints of every person and animal. The latest animated movie from Hollywood?

  • 3 weeks ago | arr.news | Erwin Chlanda

    A prominent Aboriginal spokesman gave an account of a chaotic and meaningless process deciding how Prime Minister Albanese’s $250m Alice Springs “rescue package” is being spent. The money, allocated two years ago, was “drastically needed” according to Graeme Smith, at the time the CEO of the local native title organisation Lhere Artepe. But he says the cash “was heading the wrong way”.

  • 1 month ago | arr.news | Erwin Chlanda

    Labor’s Marion Scrymgour extended her margin in all but one of the seven Alice Springs booths during the landslide Federal election on Saturday. The sitting Member for the massive seat of Lingiari, more or less all of the Territory except Darwin and Palmerston, in the town council polling place got almost 10 per cent more votes than three years ago, and achieved a 7.96 per cent margin in Gillen.

  • 1 month ago | arr.news | Erwin Chlanda

    Transparency is a very one-sided proposition for the Central Land Council (CLC): It wants the news media to publish its positions but it won’t give answers to questions the media put to them. That’s certainly the experience of the Alice Springs News with this secretive organisation which, like other Aboriginal land councils and land trusts, are not subject to freedom of information requests.

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Erwin Chlanda
Erwin Chlanda @alice_news
24 Nov 21

H. J. Furber and unfinished business https://t.co/kKVfb6RolN https://t.co/kKVfb6RolN https://t.co/RW91iVvPJS

Erwin Chlanda
Erwin Chlanda @alice_news
24 Nov 21

H. J. Furber and unfinished business https://t.co/l0VLpuG3BT

Erwin Chlanda
Erwin Chlanda @alice_news
22 Oct 21

Update: Cocking fails in bid to unseat Paterson. https://t.co/A1UUHb0IQZ