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Locals’ growing anguish on G2G silence

$2 – EDITION 966, 20 - 26 November 2013

Shelter from the storm

By MATT GARRICK AN unease about the silence on the Gas-to-Gove frontier has begun to spread through Nhulunbuy’s business community.

The Federal Government have said very little about where negotiations are at with Rio Tinto for securing Gas-to-Gove, while Rio Tinto have not breathed a word.

Local business and political leaders are asking for an end to the cone of silence.

Member for Nhulunbuy Lynne Walker last week called on Chief Minister Adam Giles to visit Nhulunbuy and explain what was occurring to secure sign-off on Gas-to-Gove.

She said there had been silence from Mr Giles and new Federal Minister for Resources Ian Macfarlane since the pair visited Gove back in September when they announced they had secured 300 petajoules of gas.

“Exactly what is happening with Gas-to-Gove?

“People are growing increasingly concerned in Nhulunbuy because we are hearing nothing from this Government.

“It is time for Mr Giles to visit the town and explain what meetings he has had with Rio Tinto and Minister Macfarlane to deliver a Gas-to-Gove deal.”

Vice-Chair of the East Arnhem Chamber of Commerce Brett McKenzie said people were hungry for some communication from both parties.

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WHEN the clouds broke in town last Thursday, November 14, it was a welcome relief from a couple of solid months of mango madness.

Gove Airport’s Friday morning rainfall reading recorded that 9.6mm of the wet stuff had fallen in the area overnight.

A spokesman from the Bureau of Meteorology said this was the first substantial downpour since 5mm fell back on September 8.

The recent rains also saw Nhulunbuy’s Town Lagoon treated to a showering, and the return of flocks of Magpie Geese.

Pictured here, Mrs Lena Larsen’s Year Two class from Nhulunbuy Primary know what to do if the storms strike again.

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Wild dogs hounding town’s dirt tracks Family pet has to bear attack from 2 dingoes

A LOCAL who had her dog mauled by a pair of dingoes near the golf course has warned others to beware when walking on the dirt tracks around town.

Tina Trudgen was taking an afternoon stroll on the golf course with her dad, Richard, and their dog, Bear, when they noticed a pair of stray dogs near the scrub.

They identified them as dingoes, but, before they could restrain Bear, he took off running over towards them.

The three animals disappeared into the scrub, and, as Tina and Richard called to Bear, they began to hear wild yelps.

Richard said he ran over waving a big palm frond to scare the wild dogs off.

“They were giving him a hiding; actually throwing him through the air.

“He was howling pretty badly; I came up adjacent to them and shook the frond and made a lot of noise; they hardly even looked at me, but they took off pretty fast.”

He said that, if Bear had been a smaller dog, he would have been killed.

The stoic cattle dog got up after the attack and walked about 50m, but then collapsed and could walk no further.

The Trudgens carried him home from there, where they settled him down for the night before taking him to the vet the next day.

Tina said she wanted to warn people to be careful when walking down the tracks near the lagoon and golf course, especially if they were with kids or dogs.

“I was just lucky my dad was there as well.

“I don’t know what I would’ve done by myself; I ABOVE: Bear, the Smithfield Blue Heeler, directly after a wild dog attack. would’ve been scared.”

More injuries could be seen on the inside of his legs.

The Nhulunbuy Corporation Limited has an animal control team who round up wild dogs on a regular basis.

RIGHT: Local Tina Trudgen and her injured dog, Bear, who survived an attack The incident with Tina’s dog was reported to this from wild dogs. team, who reacted quickly by placing traps down in the vicinity of stay away from it.”

She said if a situation arose where one of the dogs was cornered the attack.

Acting Town Administrator Julie Bryce urged residents to report or captured, the animal control team would be there straight away. wild dogs sighted within the town lease, with a description of the “And also, people must be careful to keep their dogs in their yard, animal, time and location of incident, as quickly as possible. otherwise cross-breeding with wild dogs starts, and your pets can “We will investigate and put out traps in the areas where they get hurt.” were sighted.

If you encounter a wild dog, call the animal management team “If you do come across a trap while you’re out walking, please (0419 838 064).

Yolngu will be hit hard by Travel Centre closure AFTER more than 30 years in Gove, the Qantas Travel Centre shut down this month, and Yolngu say it will leave their people stranded.

Many Yolngu people don’t own computers to book travel online, so, without a travel centre in town, some say they will be left without a way out in the wet season.

Wa l l a b y B e a c h resident Lena Gurruwiwi said her whole community was wondering why the place had closed.

“It’s nearly Christmas time, and we want to go shopping in Darwin.

“But for lots of people, it’s too hard; not many

Yolngu have computers.”

She said people were uncertain what to do now.

“It makes us feel stuck; when it’s raining, the road will be closed so we can’t drive either.”

Local MLA Lynne Walker said that out of the community, the shop’s closure would affect Yolngu the most.

“Hardest hit will be my Yolngu constituents and others who don’t have credit cards or shop online.”

She said despite the closure, the schedule of daily Qantas flights from Darwin and Cairns would remain as is.

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airport operations for passengers will continue with contracted staff.”

She said that in October, 2010, CLP transport spokesperson Peter Styles complained about the closure of the Qantas Travel Centre in Darwin.

“Now the silence

from Tourism Minister Matt Conlan is deafening when it concerns a similar service in our community.

“Minister Conlan is yet to visit Nhulunbuy.

“It is clear he is happy spending time in Darwin and Alice Springs but has

taken his eye off the ball in regional areas, such as East Arnhem Land.”

Ms Walker said Qantas told her the closure had nothing to do with current uncertainty around Rio Tinto’s refinery, but local businesses were experiencing a downturn

right now.

“The longer the uncertainty around Gasto-Gove continues the more we might see other businesses impacted.”

A much-smaller ticket purchasing and information counter will now be located at Gove Airport

to service the region’s travellers.

PHOTO: Yirrkala residents Allison Marika, Edna Marika and Lena Gurruwiwi from Wallaby Beach lamenting the closure of the Qantas travel retail centre.

NEWS

Thirsty lawns drain town of a finite resource IT’S OFFICIAL - we live in one of the thirstiest towns in the Territory, with daily water usage spiking to double that of Darwin.

In October and November, records have shown that on some days water consumption per head of population jetted to more than double Darwin’s, and towered hugely above that of Perth and Brisbane.

Due to these high figures, locals have been urged to be careful not to leave the town drained of its most-precious and finite resource.

Residents not paying attention to sprinkler bans has been attributed as a major factor in the spiking figures.

The high usage has meant the town’s overflow tank, which stands on Mt Saunders, has of late had to be drawn from twice daily.

Employees at the Nhulunbuy Corporation Limited, who look after the town’s water supply, say this tank is meant to be drawn from only when absolutely necessary.

Manager of Engineering Services at NCL Keith Weymes said the town was exceeding the ability to have a guaranteed water supply.

He said the sprinkler restrictions were meant to keep

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the peak daily usage, in the afternoon and evening, at a reduced level.

“Then we’d have a greater ability to put water into the tanks.”

At current, not all people were taking notice of the ongoing bans, he said.

Feds dump Labor’s Schoolkids’ bonus THE Coalition Government last week introduced legislation to repeal the Schoolkids’ Bonus.

Federal Member for the Seat Of Lingiari, which covers East Arnhem Land, Warren Snowdon, said this was a disgrace and a savage cut to around 9900 eligible families in Lingiari.

“The loss of the Schoolkids’ Bonus means that a family with two kids will be $15,000 worse off over the period of their kids’ schooling.

“Bigger families will be much worse off.

“This is a real blow to low and middle-income Territory families and a cruel hit to Territory families and schoolkids.”

Mr Snowdon said.

“By June of this year, Territory families had received the Schoolkids’ Bonus, which pays $410 for each child in primary school and $820 for each child in secondary school.”

He said families in Lingiari needed the support of the Schoolkids’ bonus to give their kids the best chance in life and to struggle above the disadvantage of remoteness.

“You drive to and from work and you see houses, supposed to be odds and evens, with their sprinklers on, out of time.”

Water is a finite resource and Rio Tinto are only licensed to pump so much, he said.

“They suffer the conse-

<< From Page 1 “We all know both Rio and the government play their cards pretty close to their chests, but, when they’re playing them this close, people begin to take a dim view.

“Non-communication can cause unnecessary worry.

“At the very least, we’d like to see some updates, and some solid dates, so business owners can start to plan their lives, and know some times to plan for.”

Vice-Chair of the Nhulunbuy Regional Economic Development Committee Glenn Aitchison said that, while silence didn’t alleviate anybody’s uncertainty, it wasn’t necessarily a bad sign.

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“And I think that’s a reasonable way to go about it, rather than rushing into any rash announcements.

“All parties are still going through the details, and this time around I hope they do the due diligence process properly.”

Mr Aitchison said he didn’t believe there would be an announcement released before Christmas.

A number of questions are lingering in need of answer from the NT Government, Ms Walker suggested.

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“Does Mr Giles have at hand a comprehensive social and economic impact analysis of what is at stake if the refinery closes?

“If he has any analysis then why isn’t he releasing it to residents of the region?”

The last statement released to the Arafura Times in regards to Gas-toGove from Mr Macfarlane said: “The Coalition gave an undertaking to the people of Nhulunbuy that work would be completed to determine whether the gas shortfall could be covered.”

Mr MacFarlane finished his statement by saying it remained up to Rio Tinto to make a final decision about the future of the refinery.

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LOCAL TOURISM TREASURE FEELING THE CRUNCH Banubanu’s Helen Martin and Trevor Hosie at the entrance of the retreat.

Doctors Jim Walker and Felicity Keller took a trip to Banubanu during their first week in Gove.

By MATT GARRICK

Arnhem tourism the land for their business, unique destination. then steadily building up the “In the past we’ve always leaders can work WITH their property perched infrastructure since 2005; been marketed under the c o h e s i v e l y a s a Relaxing as the sun sets at Banubanu. idyllically on the sun-soaked Banubanu exists because of umbrella of Kakadu; but that’s group to sell tourism bit of a bribe I feel, but I don’t in the region as a northern tip of Bremer Is- the passion and energy of the not us.

“But now, they’ve said to whole, they’ll start looking at care; if that’s what it’s going land, the live-in managers of couple that envisioned it. to take for us to get some help But now, it’s crunch time. us; I get it, I hear what you’re promoting the region.

Banubanu Wilderness Retreat H e l e n s a y s f o r t h e i r saying.”

“We need to have positive and money, then let’s do it.” would appear to have it made.

Since the But the reality is, behind the business to move uncertainty over gorgeous aquamarine waters forward, East ArnBanubanu - a perfect place for some space. the future of the that make up Banubanu’s front hem Land tourism town’s refinery yard, stands a local business needs an overhaul, began last year, struggling under Nhulunbuy’s and soon. the couple Chief Executive current climate of uncertainty. believe local Officer of Tourism Numbers of visitors headconsumers have ing out to spend a weekend NT Tony Mayell become moreat the hideaway have dropped could be heading to reluctant to open off heavily of late, and the the region as soon as their wallets. owners - Trevor Hosie and January, and Helen And this Helen Martin - say something says local tourism has acted as a operators need to has got to give. double-edged Banubanu is the product band together to try sword for their of nearly a decade of the pair and promote their business; to cope working to transform a dream patch of Territory as with rising costs best they can. into reality.

“For years, we have fought She said Tourism NT re- people come together to find and less customers, Banubanu Two years of negotiating with Traditional Owners to with Tourism NT to get East cently approached the business positive outcomes for tour- have been forced to increase their prices to make ends meet. be granted permission to use Arnhem Land recognised as a with the pledge that, if East ism,” said Helen.

As Trevor said: “We had to The East Arnhem Tourism Association will be holding look at our prices, and had to Scenery from Banubanu Wilderness Retreat on Bremer Island. their Annual General Meeting put them up, because its very on December 10, and the pair expensive to be out here.

“We have to pay wages, have urged tourism operators we’ve got insurances, there to use this moment to figure out a good plan to go forward. are all the ongoing costs of “The reason we’re do- running the business, fishing ing this is because, in early tour operators licence - you’ve January, the Tourism NT CEO got to pay for it all in one way wants to come across to Gove or another.”

It’s not a place people feel and have a look. they need to go every week“And if they can see that we’re together and we’ve end, he said - “we’re a bit of a got tourism functioning, they niche destination, a bucket-list will then spend dollars on this destination”.

But just by talking to peoregion, to help us promote it ple and reading the in-house and market it.

“At the end of the day it’s a visitors’ book, it seems that

when people do make the extra effort and pay the extra dollars to go out and experience this one-of-a-kind tourism destination, they always walk away satisfied.

Take Englishman Jim Walker, for example - last week was his first week in Gove, where he has moved for a doctor’s placement with his girlfriend, Felicity - and he took a trip to Banubanu.

“It’s an investment into a unique experience, so it’s well worth it,” said Jim. “For someone who has only just got to the NT, and for someone from England as well, I just marvel at the fact that you can roll out of bed and into the ocean, see things like blue-spotted rays and dolphins, and eat fresh, local food from a carbon neutral source.

“It’s quite satisfying to know that that’s possible.”

As the Rio Tinto decision about Gas-to-Gove lingers on, Banubanu are growing ideas for how to pitch their business to a market larger than just Nhulunbuy.

But for now, the retreat exists as a perfect destination for locals to spend a weekend in blissful unawareness about what may be happening back on the mainland, and forget about any uncertainties about work life; at least for a day or so.

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LEFT: Banubanu serves up delicious freshly sourced food for its guests. Pictured here, Helen Martin putting finishing touches on fresh barramundi with vegetables.

RIGHT: Beach camping is a new, cheaper option for camping at Banubanu.

Missing boaters located by writing in sand POLICE have urged local boaters to make sure their communication equipment is up to date, after a lengthy sea search took place to locate a party of missing fishermen.

A search and rescue mission was undertaken after a boating party failed

to return to the mainland from a trip to Groote Eylandt.

The rescue operation was undertaken in Blue Mud Bay and called on the resources of police from Nhulunbuy and Gapuwiyak - including a light aircraft - as well as

Media archive to protect Indigenous languages A HALF-million dollars has been granted to a project aiming to preserve more than 4000 books, recordings and audio-visual materials in 25 Indigenous languages including many native to East Arnhem Land.

With Australian Indigenous languages and literature under threat, a team of researchers from Charles Darwin University has travelled thousands of kilometres throughout the NT, in search of the stories produced in 20 Literature Production Centres.

CDU Professor of Education and project leader Professor Michael Christie (above) said the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages project aimed to build a digital archive of endangered literature in collaboration with the language-owning communities.

“Thousands of books and other school materials were produced in Australian Indigenous languages

by Aboriginal people, in collaboration with staff in school bilingual education programs across the NT,” Professor Christie said.

“The stories are valuable tools chronicling Indigenous cultural heritage, and range from environmental knowledge to traditional practices, oral literature, ethno-botany and history.”

Dr Brian Devlin is the other Chief Investigator at CDU who will be working on this project alongside project manager CDU linguist Cathy Bow and the CDU Library.

“The collection of previously unrepresented languages will be of key significance to remote schools in the NT, where new educational policies emphasise the bilingual nature of all schools in communities where Aboriginal languages are spoken,” Dr Devlin said.

East Arnhem language groups Dhangu, Dhuwal, Dhuwala are currently represented in the archive, including clan languages such as Djambarrpuyngu, Ganalbingu, Gumatj, Gupapuyngu, Ritharrngu and Yan-nhangu.

An Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships and Major Grant in 2012 enabled the team to digitise and create a living archive of 16 Australian Indigenous languages.

The next step of the project aims to involve more partner organisations to radically expand the number of languages and document types that will be available through open online access.

“Stage II of the project will allow us to preserve books and other materials including many items from language communities, which never had bilingual programs but still produced written stories in Indigenous languages by Indigenous authors,” Professor Christie said.

“We’ll also be able to focus on re-engaging people in communities with these stories and in classrooms and research organisations all over Australia and the world.”

He said that, when launched, the website would be more than simply a repository of materials to preserve language; it also aimed to engage academics and the wider community.

The project is collaborative with the Australian National University, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, NT Department of Education, Northern Territory Library, and the NT Catholic Education Office.

local ranger groups.

The party of around eight had left Baniyala (Yilpara) Homeland on the afternoon of Sunday, November 10, and by Tuesday, November 12, police were notified that the crew was missing.

After an extensive search, the crew was located on remote Woodah Island, safe and well.

After leaving Baniyala the crew had headed out to Groote, via Woodah.

Upon their return, they stopped again at Woodah after encountering boat

troubles - it was believed they struck a rock where their boat’s propeller was damaged and could travel no further.

An air search was alerted to the crew’s whereabouts after members of the party wrote a large sign that said “WE’RE OK” in the sand on the beach.

Acting Senior Sergeant of Nhulunbuy Police Alex Brennan said it was good to find the party safe and well, but all boaters must make sure to keep their com-

munication equipment up-to-date.

“At the end of the day this group had enough food and water on them so they were okay, but they had no equipment to alert us that this was so.

“The search and rescue mission was a huge use of our resources.”

He said police wanted to reinforce that people should always have proper communication equipment in place while at sea, such as a satellite phone or an EPIRB.

NEWS Busted on wrong side of road A 22-YEAR-OLD woman was pulled-over and charged with drink-driving after police spotted her driving on the wrong side of the road.

She was pulled-over in Nhulunbuy on the night of November 10 and charged with medium range drink-driving along with a number of other traffic offences.

The alleged offender will face Nhulunbuy Magistrates Court on December 4.

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NHULUNBUY Police want to remind residents that unregistered trail bikes are not to be ridden in residential areas.

Acting Senior Sergeant Alex Brennan said doing so was illegal and, if caught, the fines riders would face were quite hefty.

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ENVIRONMENT

Crocodile Is. Rangers maintain a spotless record A MATTRESS, plastic bottles, fishing floats and an old boat motor are just a few examples of marine debris found at a beach on the remote Crocodile Islands of north east Arnhem Land.

The Crocodile Island Rangers (CIR) have been working hard to make sure this trash doesn’t stay on their beautiful beaches, and were recently recognised accordingly at the NT Natural Resource Management and NT Landcare Awards.

The group took home the coveted Coastcare Award in the NT Landcare awards and also the Outstanding Territory Ranger group award in the NT Natural Resource Management awards.

The recently-established land and sea ranger group patrols both the islands and the adjacent mainland to conserve the area which is of international significance due to the large numbers of migratory shore birds, seabird colonies and marine turtle nesting beaches.

Huge amounts of rubbish were collected as part of a project by the rangers to clean up marine debris, that often washes ashore, and to dig out and remove rubbish that had accumulated over many years, and to work with the community to help keep the beaches clean.

The rangers look after the 20 islands that make up the Crocodile Islands, between the communities of Milingimbi and Ramingining.

Over the last year,

the rangers coordinated monthly community beach clean ups with up to 100 community members participating, and many tonnes of rubbish removed.

CIR program coordinator Simone McMonigal said the rangers first started coordinating community beach clean ups at the main beach on Milingimbi Island about two years ago.

“We picked up the rubbish on the main beach, and, while we got the rubbish off the surface, we realised there was a lot of rubbish buried in the sand that had been accumulating,” Simone said.

The rangers undertook many additional clean-ups over the year to remove the larger and more difficult items, and even organised a contractor with an excavator to dig up the tricky ones.

To address the issue of local rubbish, the rangers helped educate the community about the impacts of marine debris, and the importance of keeping local beaches clean, to try and find some solutions together.

Also, the rangers made a short video and poster in English and Yolngu Matha, which they showed at local schools.

A town meeting was also held by the rangers to further brainstorm solutions to reduce the rubbish in town and on the beaches.

The community requested additional bins to be installed along the

RANGERS RECOGNISED: Major Projects Director at Landcare Australia Shane Norrish, Crocodile Island Rangers Leonard Bowaynu, Samuel Wumulul, Fabian Gaykamangu and CIR program coordinator Simone McMonigal. beachfront, with signs protect this unique and in language encouraging beautiful part of Australia. people to use the bins.

Territory Natural ReThe rangers also made source Management Chief bins for the remote beaches Executive Officer Karen by recycling 44 gallon May said the awards recdrums and taking them all ognised the activities and the local people involved out by boat.

The main beach is now in managing the natural recognisably cleaner, and environment. the rangers are able to “In particular, the maintain it themselves with NT NRM awards have a strong Indigenous focus monthly patrols.

They also continue to around areas of managepatrol the beaches of the ment including ecological more remote islands to knowledge and the work remove any ghost nets that Indigenous ranger and marine debris, and to groups do,” Karen said.

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Locals catch whiff of a golden o-poo-tunity

Coordinator of a biogas project in Sumatra, Lisa Wood, with a local farmer.

CONVERTING cow poo into power during cooking, more slurry fills the could give remote communities in East tank and as the methane builds up, Arnhem Land cheap electricity and the slurry is pushed out where it can be used as odourless liquid fertiliser or provide free gas for cooking.

A biogas project in Indonesia, which dried and used as fish food. already has hundreds of local homes Lisa said 50kg of manure, created by cooking with methane gas generated two to three cows, can provide enough by cow manure, was a hot topic of gas for eight hours of cooking.

She said the biogas process is used discussion at the Territory Natural Resource Management Annual Forum all over the world including Vietnam in Darwin last week. and Nepal and there was the potential Coordinator of one of these biogas to use faeces from other animals and projects in Sumatra, Lisa Wood, works even humans, instead of cow manure.

As part of the project, Lisa said they for Indonesian cattle importer AGRO Giri Perkasa which is about to install were looking at constructing a larger two reactors in the backyards of homes reactor, more than ten times bigger in Sumatra as part of its program to than the domestic reactors, next to their feed lot, which would create enough gas contribute to the local community.

Lisa explained the simple process at to generate electricity.

“This could be used at a lot of cattle the forum, which involves building a reactor underground out of bricks and stations in the NT but it could also cement that has a tank, holding dome be a good solution for generating gas and slurry pit. for cooking and electricity in remote Cow manure is mixed with water communities,” Lisa said.

More than 200 people heard about and shovelled into the reactor where stories, achievements and challenges at it creates methane gas as it ferments.

The odourless gas is captured in a the forum at the Darwin Convention dome and is piped into burners inside Centre on November 6, and celebrated the home where it can be turned on and their successes at the inaugural NT off using a tap.

Natural Resource Management Awards As the methane gas is released and NT Landcare Awards.

ENVIRONMENT

Dead fish spark concern about prawn hauls

Dozens of dead juvenile trevally and mackerel were found floating in waters near Cape Arnhem. Photo courtesy: Nhulunbuy Regional Sports Fishing Club.

PRAWN trawlers operating in north-east Arnhem Land have been accused of stunting the sea’s food-chain and destroying large areas of food supply for dugongs and turtles.

Members of Nhulunbuy Regional Sports Fishing Club (NRSFC) have pointed the finger at prawn trawlers after a number of dead fish were found floating on the surface of the region’s water.

A fishing party was returning from a recreational trip to Cape Arnhem when they came across the backwash of a prawn trawler.

Dozens of dead juvenile trevally and mackerel were found floating in the backwash, sparking concern that too many young fish were needlessly dying in the prawn hauls.

NT Game Fishing Association President and NRSFC committee member Peter Cox said the amount of wasted by-catch was appalling.

(By-catch are the marine creatures that get hauled up in the nets along with the prawns, but are not kept or sold back onshore).

Mr Cox said the trawlers were being paid to bring back prawns, not to worry about by-catch.

“It’s totally disrupting the food-chain by taking away the juvenile fish, who have the least chance of being freed from the haul.

“These boats also drag boards and chains to trawl the sea bed, which destroys a lot of sea grass; a prime food for animals such as dugongs and turtles.”

Austral Fisheries General Manager Andrew Prendergast told media he was surprised about the allegations of boats trawling close to sea grass beds.

“We’ve got closures all around our fishery to protect sea grass beds, because that’s where

our tiger prawns breed. It’d be commercial suicide for us to go near sea grass beds.”

He said trawlers use by-catch reduction devices to prevent catching large fish and turtles in the nets.

“All fishermen do their best to avoid [a fish kill], but if they’ve trawled through until eight o’clock in the morning, they may have encountered a small patch of fish which, as they’ve discarded it from the catch, has floated on the surface.”

While officially there are said to be 52 prawn trawlers operating in the Northern Prawn Fishery, with the season running from August 1 through until November 30, Mr Cox said the number was likely much higher.

“You can go out there at night and just see all the lights flickering.

“Many more trawlers come over from Queensland, and it’s hard to keep tabs on just how many there are.”

He said an alternative to the wasteful techniques used by some trawlers at current could be a more-sustainable practice such as mulching the by-catch to be used for pet food.

Spokesperson for the Northern Prawn Fishery Annie Jarrett said the industry was currently looking at ways to improve their methods of by-catch and potential other uses for the by-catch.

“It’s definitely something that’s on our radar.

“One of the limitations is the length of time the trawlers are at sea; this means they don’t have huge amounts of storage space to house the by-catch fish.”

She said while the reduction devices used for larger by-catch, such as big fish and turtles, were quite successful, the process of eliminating smaller by-catch remained much more challenging.

Author digs dirt on our PENO (Public Enemy Number One)

A new book detailing the origins of the Cane Toad and its introduction to Northern Australia was launched last week.

OUT here in Gove, cane toads are known as PENO (Public Enemy Number One) for the devastating impact they have on the native environment.

Now there’s a book detailing one of Australia’s most successful invasive species and the lessons that can be learned from the “unintended consequences” of species’ introduction.

The untold story of how good intentions can have catastrophic outcomes is told in author Dr Nigel Turvey’s book, Cane toads: a tale of sugar, politics and flawed science, which was launched in Darwin on November 15.

It is the collation of historical records spanning 500 years.

“Tracing the history of where the toads came from led me to take a more in-depth look at the reasons behind the human-induced spread of the species that originated in and was adopted by sugar growers in northern South America in the 16th and 17th centuries,” Dr Turvey said.

“The real ‘pot of gold’ was the documents I found in Brisbane that allowed me to understand the historical context and delve inside the minds and thought processes of the public servants and scientists in the 1930s.”

Unveiling forgotten

factual historical documents, Dr Turvey said that blaming those who introduced the species was “too easy”.

“Back in 1935 the decision-makers and facilitators were simply doing the jobs they were qualified for by trying to help the sugar industry.

“At the time these researchers were the best at what they did and they thought they were doing the

right thing backed by cane growers, leading scientists, politicians, the premier of Queensland and the prime minister of Australia.”

As an environmental scientist and professional forester he knows only too well the conflicts that arise between government and state-sanctioned environmental management and the opinions of environmentalists.

“It’s a scary thought for the future; rather than assign blame to the researchers of the past, there is a real message here for today’s scientists to learn from them.

“And as the toad tale tells, we come perilously close to repeating the mistakes of the past.”

The Darwin book launch took place the at Northern Territory Library.

Dr N. Lewis | Dr W.L. Wong | Dr D. Gordon | Dr K. Babu

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What’s On

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 letters to the editor/comment 99-year lease to take our Law and Identity I EXPRESS my deep concern at the actions of the Abbott Government as evidenced by the behaviour of the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion, in hastily procuring agreements on township leases for 99-years in Gunbalanya and Yirrkala in recent weeks.

He is quoted as saying that this was part of a blitz to encourage other communities around the country to sign similar deals.

There is no evidence of general consultation with the communities concerned, and the haste associated with the process would suggest that there has been no time for reflection or the obtaining of legal and other advice as to the advisability of what the Government proposes.

The process, therefore, places unfair pressure on the communities concerned.

What these leases involve is the handing over of hard-fought entitlements to lands to the Government for at least four generations for what would appear to be short-term gains.

A 99-year lease is regarded by most people as an effective surrender of title.

It is a decision that requires careful and mature consideration and not one taken in response to a fly-in-fly-out Government ‘blitz’.

Our Madayin-Law is upheld by the Ngurringgitj-Tradition in the land.

A lease that takes control of the land means we are giving away our Law and our identity.

We will have nothing to live for. We will become fringe dwellers. Our land can never simply be exchanged for monetary gain.

Government behaviour thus far is consistent with that of its many predecessors in

trampling over the rights of Aboriginal people and treating them as second class citizens.

It also flies in the face of consultation recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission aimed at consensus decision-making, which two Parliamentary Committees have endorsed, including one of which Senator Scullion was a member.

It is also inconsistent with the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to which Australia has endorsed.

I call on other Aboriginal Communities to reject the Government’s overtures involving any changes unless and until they abide by culturally appropriate protocols and undertake to give the communities access to independent advice, including legal advice at the Government’s expense.

Rev. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM

Teachers strike as truth about cuts kept foggy CUTS to education remains a very hot topic in the Territory.

Less so, however, if you happen to be a CLP member who has threatened to break ranks and successfully managed to have teacher resources reinstated; as has been the case for three CLP held electorates.

No such luck for me and my lobbying efforts.

I have not had even the courtesy of an acknowledgement letter, let alone a response from the Education Minister Peter Chandler who I wrote to on September 27.

Follow up calls from my office have yielded nothing.

Nor have school councils from Shepherdson College, Nhulunbuy High or Yirrkala School received responses to

Ghost-net car, Banubanu. PHOTO MATT GARRICK

WEEKLY Every Wednesday. Barefoot Bowls at the Arnhem Club, from 5.30pm, followed by Karaoke.

Every Wednesday. Open Mic Wednesdays - Walkabout Tavern from 8pm.

Every Thursday. Badge Draw, Arnhem Club, from 5.30pm, followed by Karaoke.

Every Friday. TGIF Weekly Draw, in the Walkabout Tavern from 4.30pm, prizes drawn at 6.30pm.

Every Friday. Jag the Joker, Arnhem Club, tickets from 5-6pm, draw 6-9pm.

Every Friday & Saturday. Double Trouble live in the Beer Garden, 9pm-3am @ The Arnhem Club.

Every Friday & Saturday. DJ Wil.K The Baddist, live in The Jam, 9pm 'til late - Walkabout Tavern.

Every Saturday. Goose Club (tickets on sale from 11.30am), and Jam Session from 1pm at the Arnhem Club.

Every Monday. Trivia at the Arnhem Club, from 6-8pm.

Every Tuesday. Pool Comp at the Arnhem Club, from 5.30pm.

Fri 22. Rotary Youth Group Disco, Town Hall. Juniors (Years 1 to 6) 5.30pm-7pm. Seniors (Years 6 to 10) 7.30pm-10pm). Food and drinks supplied.

Sat 30. Club Championships, Nhulunbuy Speedway, races start at 7.30pm.

THE Arafura Times is on the hunt for the best number plate in Gove.

This week, one fishy plate has stepped up to the podium to vie for the prize.

Local Ian ‘Mo’ McKay is evidently a bit of a fan of one sport in particular; as can be seen through his plate, BILFISH. In Mo’s words, “Being an avid Game Fisherman - targeting Sailfish and Marlin, I couldn’t resist BILFISH as the number plate for my new ute.

DECEMBER Fri 6. Comedy Show: Terry North presents Fairway to Heaven, 6.30pm, Gove Country Golf Club. Tickets $65, includes dinner. Bookings: (8987 3191).

Sat 7. NCL Arts and Craft Markets, Town Hall, 9am12pm. Hosted by East Arnhem Rugby Union.

Sat 7. Farewell Fun Night with Eva, Skate Park, 6pm9pm. Free entry, fun activities, food available.

Sun 8. Christmas Carols, Nhulunbuy Christian College, starts 6.45pm, sausage sizzle provided.

Can club secretaries please send in a list of their events planned for the year to editor@arafuratimes.com.au so they can be included in the What's On section.

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farewell principal cuts with further Pat Ellis and his strike action for a half day this wife, Wendy. week.

Pat and Wendy will be departing Peter Chanfor retirement at the dler announced end of the year after last Thursday evening, via an four years dedicated under the radar Electoral News service.

Member for Nhulunbuy They had retired media release, by NT LYNNE WALKER from their roles at that principals Nhulunbuy Primary in government schools have now been given many years ago, but this time their staffing allocation for they tell me this is definitely it!

BEST wishes to Nhulunbuy 2014.

However, he has resisted High School’s class of 2013 calls to release the staffing who will have their Year 12 Formal this Friday. allocations publicly.

I look forward to being part What’s he got to hide?

AT the end of this week of the celebrations, acknowlI’ll be making an overnight edging the end of their school visit to Yilpara where Baniyala days and the next chapter ahead Garangali School prepares to in these young people’s lives.

Fishing for the first place numberplate

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their letters to the minister.

This is the same minister who has travelled extensively overseas in the last couple of months, but cannot be bothered to get on a plane and make the short journey to Nhulunbuy and visit schools for the first time and meet with school councils.

It’s an appalling abrogation of responsibility.

Around 2000 teachers were on a one-day strike around the Territory last week to protest these cuts.

I attended the meeting at Galiwin’ku (Elcho Island) where around 100 community members and teachers gathered, and I understand a good sized crowd met in Nhulunbuy with strong and singular resolve to continue to protest these

“I go out looking for them as often as I can; if we hook them, we land them, but it’s a lot of time and effort going out looking for them.

“BILFISH means I’ve always got one

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Next week is the LAST WEEK of the competition, at the end of which the best of the bunch will be chosen by a jury of motor-minded community members, and the winner gifted a $150 voucher for Gove Motors.

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Quiz questions 1. Which of these rocks is not igneous: a) pumice, b) basalt, c) sandstone or d) granite?

2. What kingdom do sea anemones belong to?

3. What colour is barium sulfate?

4. In anatomy, what does CSF stand for?

5. What is the smallest number of rigid pendulums, attached end to end, required to create a chaotic system?

1. c), sandstone is not igneous, it’s a sedimentary rock.

2. Sea anemones belong to the kingdom Animalia, or animals. 3. Barium sulfate is white. 4. In anatomy, CSF stands for cerebrospinal fluid. 5. The smallest number of rigid pendulums, attached end to end, required to create a chaotic system is two.

RIGHT: East Journey looking deadly at this year’s Deadly Awards.

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FAR RIGHT: NT Australian of the Year Shellie Morris will be heading into the studio in Nhulunbuy with East Journey this December.

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IT’S been a big year for rising musical stars East Journey, and they’re getting ready to wrap it up in style.

During December, the band will be heading into the newly completed Nhulunbuy ARDS/Yolngu Radio studio to jam with NT Australian of the Year, singer-songwriter Shellie Morris.

Joining Shellie and the Journey will be Yothu Yindi musicians; keyboardist Buruka Tau, drummer Ben Hakalitz and bassist Stu Kellaway.

The all-star crew will be workshopping with East Journey, the process of which will be filmed by the crew from NITV television show, Move It Mob Style.

EJ guitarist Arian Pearson said working with Shellie would be a top way to reel in a huge year.

“I’ve been lucky enough to work with Shellie in the past, conducting workshops at schools about music and healthy lifestyles.

“Also I was with her at the Boomerang Festival

in Byron Bay this year, where she was playing.

“This was a great insight into how someone who has been in the industry for so long prepares for such big performances.”

He said the workshops in Nhulunbuy would give the EJ unit a great insight into the workings of long-term music industry professionals.

“These guys have been in the industry for much of their lives.

“Just to talk with them and hang out, I mean, we’re good friends anyway, so it will be something to look forward to - to talk and listen to them about their musical journeys.”

EJ will also be taking the end of the year as an opportunity to look at their own direction, and try to map out the next chapter of their musical journey.

And their journey has lately been a busy one; the crew just recently returned from Broome, where they performed on Cable Beach together with award winning NT singer Jessica Mauboy.

Shipping company is in for the long haul MARINE transport provider Sea Swift has started a blitz of community visits for its customers across the Northern Territory in the lead-up to Christmas.

Representatives from the Northern Australia shipping company visited Groote Eylandt recently to speak to customers as the first stop in a 12-week long campaign.

Sea Swift NT General Manager Chris Sheppard said getting feedback from its customers, whether they were large organisations and small businesses, government agencies or mums and dads, was a key part of its customer service delivery.

“We are going to be here for the long-term, and intend to invest heavily in the region and continue to expand services in a sustainable manner.”

The visit was the first in a series of community visits, which will also include Maningrida,

SEA SWIFT STAFF: Chris Sheppard, Phil Chandler, Mick Taylor and John Rogers at The Coffee Shop on Groote Eylandt.

Milingimbi, Ramingining, Elcho an active role in every community infrastructure and general lifestyles.”

Island, Lake Evella, Groote Ey- where the company operates. landt (Alyangula, Angurugu and “We believe in supporting the The company also has depots Umbukumba), Bickerton Island heart and soul of the communities in Cairns, Weipa, Seisia and and Numbulwar. we are proud to serve; through Gladstone, as well as on Thursday Mr Sheppard said Sea Swift’s their dance and art festivals, Island and Horn Island in the philosophy has always been to play schooling, sporting events, basic Torres Strait.

Scrapping of low-income contribution not so super SEVERAL million Australians will be disadvantaged by the scrapping of the low-income super contribution, National Seniors says.

Treasurer Joe Hockey has ruled out any new taxes in the first term of government, but also said it would go ahead with plans to scrap the annual government super contribution for workers earning less than $37,000 a year.

The move is expected to affect around 3.6

million low -paid workers, including 2.1 million women.

National Seniors chief executive Michael O’Neill said: “Low income Australians already struggle to fund their retirement so this change will be a blow.”

“We welcome the government’s other announcements yesterday which promise greater certainty and clarity in what is a highly complex

tax system.

“We also welcome the government’s plan to drop Labor’s proposals to increase tax on super funds earning over $100,000, which, according to experts would have been impossible to implement.

“What is missing is policy to enable low funded workers to maximize their retirement income and to age with dignity.”

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UNITY AT TEACHERS’ STRIKE, nov. 12

PHOTOS: MATT GARRICK

Local education workers voted unanimously to continue taking action against proposed teacher cuts pegged for the region.

THERE was a feeling of unity, rather than hostility, when teachers walked off the job last Tuesday, November 12, in protest against planned NT Government teacher cuts.

More than 1800 teachers across the Territory took part in the Australian Education Union (AEU) NT strike, including a bevy of local education workers, who joined a meeting to discuss the situation at the Gove Peninsula Surf Club.

At the meeting, education workers from Nhulunbuy and Yirrkala were addressed by union officials, who walked them through possibilities for the next course of action in their fight against the cuts.

Vice President of the Arnhem Regional Council for the Australian Education Union Jarvis Ryan said the strikes showed the government just how serious they were.

“We’ve got popular support behind us.

“The AEU has estimated 85 per cent of its members took action today.”

He said the NT Government trying to justify the cuts as simply cost-cutting from the budget was simply not on.

“They are truly a rabble - that’s why it is up to us to keep the pressure on them.

“We’re already working as hard as we can, and these cuts will stretch us ever further.”

Minister for Education Peter Chandler called on the AEU NT to put a stop to further strike action - a call that went unheard; the AEU held a second (four hour) strike on Tuesday, November 19.

Two schools in East Arnhem Land - Milingimbi and Numbulwar - were closed on the first day of industrial action, while Nhulunbuy and Yirrkala Schools were opened mainly to make sure students were supervised.

Australian Education Union representative Jarvis Ryan addresses the crowd about what Yirrkala School and Homelands School teachers Jessica Taylor, Kathy McMahon, Katrina Hudson, Robyn Beecham, Claire Rafferty and Abi White. teacher cuts would mean to the region.

ABOVE LEFT: Australian Education Union representative Don McKinnon and Jason Dyson.

ABOVE: Tim and Marla Webb, regional AEU NT President Martin Griffin and Jen Bonte.

ABOVE RIGHT: David Brumby and Digby Houghton.

LEFT: Laura Weckert and Stef Murdoch.

RIGHT: Teremayi Manozho, Kelly Davis, Zoe Vitlin and Jarvis Ryan.

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Young education advocates Ted and Olive Griffin.

LIGHT IT UP GOLF, GOVE COUNTRY GOLF CLUB, NOV. 15

PHOTOS: MATT GARRICK

THE night flight coming into Gove last Friday may have been confused by the lit-up greens of Australia’s top golf course.

Gove Country Golf Club hosted Light it Up Golf, a fun new form of night golf played with lights, buggies and beers.

Light it Up Golf is a new system created by a crew in Sydney, and its taken off and been purchased by the good folks in Gove as a new form of night entertainment.

Club Manager Jamie Henderson said it was something else sporting for Goveites to do of an evening.

“It’s in its early days, as this is our first run of it, but its a lot of fun that’s for sure.”

There were 16 teams who took part in the Ambrose, 64 golfers all up, for a great night in the lights.

The Ballsy B*tches: Courtney Warr, Carrieann Arnold, Megan Niven and Shannon Harper.

LEFT: The radiant Larissa Print and Holly Auld.

BELOW: Brad Fielke smacks his glowing green ball into oblivion.

ABOVE: Buggy brigade Becc Rutherford, Sky Morgan, Juliette Mundy and Brinkles D-Dawg.

BELOW: Brad, Kat, Natasha, Renee, baby Jackson and Wayne ready to tee off.

RIGHT: Sarah, Paula, Josh and Mandy getting funky on the fifth hole.

BELOW LEFT: Matt Collins and Mache Eloff.

BELOW RIGHT: The East Arnhem Pest Control mob were glowing on the greens.

The In-Betweeners (aka Team Welding): Col, Mark, Ed, Tim and Dave.

Synchronised glow golfers Kim Andrew, Judy Miegel, Liz Henderson and Kim Thompson.

Jai, Trent, Johnno, Woodsy and Ryan.

Joan and Katut America-Smith.

Arafura Times

20 - 26 November 2013 – 11

ABC

5:30 Sunrise 8:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Movie: “Breaking The Surface” (M av) 1:30 The Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News 6:00 Today Tonight 6:30 Home And Away 7:30 How I Met Your Mother 8:00 Beauty And The Geek Australia 9:00 Grey’s Anatomy: I Bet It Stung - Meredith jumps back into work but finds it hard to excel at both motherhood and being a surgeon.

10:00 The Amazing Race 11:00 Grimm 12:00 Harry’s Practice 12:30 Home Shopping 3:30 NBC Today 4:30 Sunrise Extra / 5:00 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Barbados At The Races 1:30 JFK: A Home Coming 2:30 Law Of The Dragon 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village 6:00 Portrait Of A City 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Italian Food Safari 8:00 Destination Flavour: Japan 8:30 Two Greedy Italians: The Family - Chefs Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo tour Italy to discover how their home country’s culture has changed since they left more than 40 years ago, and how this has affected the way the population eats.

9:35 Masters Of Sex 10:35 World News Australia 11:05 UEFA Champions League Magazine 11:30 Thursday FC 12:35 Anthony Bourdian: No Reservations 2:20 Weatherwatch Overnight

FRIDAY 22

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 Foreign Correspondent 11:30 One Plus One 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Last Of The Summer Wine 1:00 Dalziel And Pascoe 2:35 The Wonder Years 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking: Surf And Turf 6:25 Auction Room: Motorclassica 6:55 What’s Your Story?

7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 NT 8:00 QI: Intelligence - Stephen Fry asks some intelligent questions, with Jo Brand, David Mitchell, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies.

8:30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: The gothic world of a halfway house for pregnant and wayward girls sets the scene for the death of a teenager. Phryne and Jack realise the threads of the crime lead closer to home than they suspected.

9:25 Serangoon Road 10:20 Lateline 11:00 Whites 11:25 Rage

5:30 Today 8:30 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 11:30 The Cricket Show 12:00 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 4:30 National News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:00 A Current Affair 6:30 The Big Bang Theory: The Apology Insufficiency 7:30 The Big Bang Theory: The 21-Second Excitation 7:00 Movie: “Harry Potter And The Deadly Hallows - Part 1” (M v,s) - Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort’s immortality and destruction – the Horcruxes. On their own and on the run, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever…but Dark Forces in their midst threaten to tear them apart.

10:50 Movie: “The Wrong Man” (AV v,s,l) 1:00 Observe And Report 2:35 Impractical Jokers 3:00 Extra 3:30 Brand Developers / 4:00 Good Morning America

5:30 Sunrise 8:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Movie: “Miracle In The Woods” (M a) 1:30 Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News 6:00 Today Tonight 6:30 Better Homes And Gardens 8:00 TBA 10:15 Movie: “Fright Night” (AV v,h) - Jerry Dandrige is new in town, he’s dangerously charming and utterly lethal... that’s because he just happens to be a vampire. When his next door neighbour, high school senior Charley Brewster makes the connection between Jerry’s suspicious activity and a steadily rising body count, he vows to end the reign of terror next door. But he can’t do it alone.

12:30 Off The Map 1:30 Special: Blue Mountains Magic 2:30 Home Shopping / 3:30 NBC Today

5:00 World News 1:00 The Food Lover’s Guide To Australia 1:35 Rex In Rome 2:30 Living Black 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village 6:00 Portrait Of A City 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Secrets Of The Irih Landscape 8:30 The Bible: A History 9:30 JFK: One Pm Central Standard Time 10:30 World News Australia 11:10 Movie: “Trivial Matters” (M s,d,l,n) - In Cantonese, Mandarin and English. A collection of seven fun and quirky vignettes that reveals society’s tendency to place importance on the trivial matters in life. The vignettes are largely about love or life in Hong Kong, many revolving around hapless men and their continual failures in understanding their women. Some are sad, others sarcastic, all are completely trivial.

12:50 Movie: “Never On A Sunday” (M a,d,s,l) - In Spanish, English Subtitles.

3:10 Weatherwatch Overnight

SATURDAY 23

6:00 Rage 10:30 Rage Guest Programmer 11:30 Exhumed 12:00 Australian Story 12:30 7.30 NT 1:00 At The Movies 1:30 Inland Heart: The Photography Of Jeff Carter 2:00 Mastercrafts: Green Woodcraft 3:00 Football: NTFL: Round 8 - Nightcliff V Wanderers 6:00 Saturday Landline 6:30 Gardening Australia 7:00 ABC News 7:30 New Tricks 8:30 Call The Midwife 9:30 Kingdom: Simon wants to rejoin Peter in the family firm but the Law Society prevents it, and one of Peter’s cricket pals is in trouble with the owner of a sex shop.

10:20 Upstairs Downstairs: A Faraway Country About Which We Know Nothing - In series two of Upstairs Downstairs the glamorous world of 165 Eaton Place is shaken to its core as threats of war, heartbreak and intrigue sweep through the lives of the inhabitants of both up and downstairs.

11:20 Woodley: The Funeral 11:50 Rage Guest Programmer / 5:00 Rage

5:30 Weekend Today - Saturday 8:30 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 11:30 The Cricket Show 12:00 The Ashes: First Test Australia Vs England 4:30 4WD TV 5:00 Alive And Cooking - James Reeson takes us to some of the country’s top food and wine regions and prepares a feast of delicious dishes with the foods developed by each region.

5:30 National News Saturday 6:30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7:30 TBA 9:30 TBA 11:30 Movie: “Frozen River” (MA a,l) - Struggling to support her two sons, a young woman gets caught up in the world of illegal drug smuggling, seeing it as her only way out.

1:30 Movie: “First Sunday” (PG d,s,l) - Durall and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighbourhood church.

3:30 Brand Developers 4:30 Life Today With James Robinson / 5:00 Wesley Impact

5:30 Saturday Disney 6:30 Weekend Sunrise 9:30 The Morning Show - Weekend 11:30 TBA 12:00 V8 Xtra 12:30 Seven’s V8 Supercars 2013 4:00 TBA 4:30 Creek To Coast 5:00 Queensland Weekender: Dean Miller and his team cover the length and breadth of Queensland with great suggestions for weekends, short breaks and holidays.

5:30 Seven News 6:30 TBA 10:55 World’s Wildest Police Videos: Tonight, a car bomb explodes in an officer’s face, a suicidal suspect in a high-speed pursuit lights himself on fire, and a father and son at a traffic stop launch a deadly shootout with police!

11:55 Off The Map 12:55 Movie: “The Operator” (M s,v) - An aggressive criminal attorney meets his match when a mysterious woman wreaks her revenge, slowly unravelling his life.

3:00 It Is Written Oceania 3:30 Home Shopping 4:30 Dr Oz

5:00 World News 1:00 The Turn Of The Screw 2:55 Tadao Ando: From Emptiness To Infinity 3:55 James Rhodes 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Finding Your Roots 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Destination Flavour Japan Bitesize 7:35 Nordic Wild 8:35 Shackleton: Death Or Glory 9:30 Movie: “Beginners” (M s,l) - When it comes to relationships, we’re all beginners. This comedy/drama imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver. Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life.

11:25 Movie: “The Notorious Bettie Page” (MA a) 1:00 Shameless 2:55 Weatherwatch Overnight

SUNDAY 24

6:00 Rage 6:30 Children’s Programs 9:00 Insiders 10:00 Inside Business 10:30 Offsiders 11:00 Asia Pacific Focus 11:30 Songs Of Praise 12:00 Landline 1:00 Gardening Australia 1:30 The Book Club: November 2:00 The Private Life Of A Christmas Masterpiece: Mystic Nativity 3:00 Football: Women’s International AUS Vs CHN 5:00 Midsomer Murders 6:30 Compass 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Dr Who: The Day Of The Doctor - Celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who with this highly anticipated special titled The Day of the Doctor, starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman with Billie Piper and John Hurt.

8:45 An Adventure In Space And Time: As part of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary celebrations, this one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how the beloved ‘Doctor Who’ was first brought to the screen.

10:20 Surviving Mumbai 2:30 Movie: “That Kind Of Woman” (G) 4:00 The New Inventors 4:30 The Bionic Vet / 5:00 Order In The House

5:30 Weekend Today 8:00 Financial Review Sunday 8:30 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 11:30 The Cricket Show 12:00 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 4:30 Reel Action 5:00 Musomagic Outback Tracks 5:30 National News Sunday 6:00 David Attenborough’s Secrets Of Wild India - The jungles of India are battlefields ruled by tooth and claw, where species fight for space, food and water. Dominated by the Bengal Tiger and Indian Wild Dog, this world knows nothing of compassion.

7:30 60 Minutes 8:00 TBA 12:00 Deep Water - Set against the spectacular backdrop of Kalbarri Gorge, the IronMen will race against the clock, ending in disastrous circumstances for one of the boys.

12:30 Financial Review Sunday 1:00 Would You Fall For That?

2:00 Brand Developers 3:30 Good Morning America - Sunday 4:30 National Early Morning News 5:00 Today

5:30 Sofia The First 6:00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 6:30 Weekend Sunrise 9:30 The Morning Show - Weekend 10:30 Kochie’s Business Builders 11:00 Special: Merry Madagascar 11:30 Seven’s V8 Supercars 2013 4:00 TBA 5:00 The Great South East 5:30 Seven News 6:00 Sunday Night 7:00 TBA 8:00 Bones: The Woman in White - The Jeffersonian team investigates the murder of Nancy Handelman, whose body was discovered at the time of Brennan and Booth’s wedding rehearsal.

9:00 Castle: Get A Clue / Dens Of Thieves 11:00 Family Tools 11:30 Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum 12:45 Harry’s Practice 1:30 Home Shopping 2:30 NBC Today 3:30 NBC Meet The Press 4:30 Sunrise Extra / 5:00 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Al Jazeera News 1:30 ADbc 2:00 Speedweek 4:00 Football Asia 4:30 UEFA Champions League Magazine 5:00 Living Black Conversations 5:30 Mythbusters 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Lost Worlds: The Hunt For The Book Of Spells 8:30 Meet The Romans 9:35 King Of Hollywood: Inventing David Geffen - Notoriously press and camera-shy, David Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this unflinching portrait of a complex and compelling man.

11:40 Movie: “Teza” (M l,v,a) - In Amharic and German, English Subtitles. As students in Germany in the 1970s, Anberber and his friends are Ethiopian intellectuals in exile. Motivated by a profound sense of idealism, they return to Ethiopia after Haile Selassie is deposed. But they quickly find that they are out of place in their own country and at odds with the political mood of the day. When Anberber returns to Germany, he finds that he is not accepted there either.

2:10 Weatherwatch Overnight

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 Landline 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 As Time Goes By 1:00 An Adventure In Space And Time 2:35 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking: Spicy And Cool 6:25 Antiques Master 6:55 Audrey’s Kitchen 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Australian Story 8:30 Four Corners 9:20 Media Watch 9:35 Q&A 10:35 Lateline 11:10 The Business 11:35 Dalziel And Pascoe: Home Truths 1:05 My Family: Ben Behaving Badly 1:35 Movie: “Rio Grande” (PG) 3:20 Movie: “Sherlock Holmes In Terror By Night” (G) 4:25 Movie: “Mexican Spitfire’s Blessed Event” (G) 5:30 Eggheads

5:30 Today 8:30 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 11:30 The Cricket Show 12:00 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 4:30 National News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:00 A Current Affair 6:30 The Big Bang Theory: The Boyfriend Complexity 7:00 The Big Bang Theory: The Proton Displacement 7:30 The Big Bang Theory: The Tenure Turbulence 8:00 2 Broke Girls: And The Girlfriend Experience 8:30 Two And A Half Men: Some Kind Of Lesbian Zombie - Walden and Alan find themselves on dates with two ideal women until Lyndsey’s jealousy throws a wrench in their evening.

9:00 TBA 11:05 Nikita: High Value Target - Nikita, Michael, Alex and arms dealer/reformed rogue agent Cyrus stage a daring operation at the tightly secured G20 economic summit.

12:00 Extra 12:30 The Avengers 1:30 Brand Developers 3:00 Good Morning America 4:30 National Early Morning News / 5:00 Today

5:30 Sunrise 8:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Movie: “In The Mix” (M v,s,l) 1:30 The Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News 6:00 Today Tonight 6:30 Home And Away 7:00 Highway Patrol 7:30 Air Rescue 8:00 The Blacklist 9:00 Scandal 11:00 Mistresses: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? - When Savi and Joss’s free-spirited, open-minded and often absent mother, Janet, comes for an unexpected visit, she brings big news but also stirs up some long-simmering family tensions.

12:00 30 Rock 12:30 Home Shopping 3:00 Sons And Daughters 3:30 NBC Today 4:30 Sunrise Extra / 5:00 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Explore - Manila To Mindanao 2:00 The Destiny Of Rome 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5:00 Massive Moves 5:30 Global Village 6:00 The Dales With Ade Edmondson 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Engineering Giants: Jumbo Jet Strip-Down 8:30 Guts 9:30 Legally Brown 10:00 Swift And Shift Couriers 10:30 World News Australia 11:00 The World Game 11:30 Hellfjord: When Salmander discovers a dead body on the island, he becomes convinced that there is talk of a murder. With several suspicious people in the community, he tries to investigate, but as an outsider and southerner, the locals are reluctant to help him.

12:05 Shorts On Screen 12:40 Freddie Flintoff Versus The World 2:30 Weatherwatch Overnight

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Compass 1:00 Q&A 2:00 Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School For Boys 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking: Soft And Crisp 6:30 Antiques Master 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Foreign Correspondent 8:30 Keating 9:30 At The Movies 10:00 Making Dust 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:35 Four Corners 12:20 Media Watch 12:35 Outcasts 1:35 My Family: Harper Vs Harper 2:05 Movie: “If I Had A Million” (PG) 3:30 Basketball: WNBL: Round 8 - Logan Vs Canberra 5:30 Eggheads

5:30 Today 8:30 Danoz Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 10:30 National Morning News 11:30 The Ellen Degeneres Show 12:30 Movie: “Her Alibi” (PG v,l) 2:30 National News Now 3:45 National Afternoon News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:00 A Current Affair 6:30 The Big Bang Theory: The Alien Parasite Hypothesis 7:00 The Big Bang Theory: The Justice League Reombination 7:30 Super Fun Night: The Set Up - Kendall sets Kimmie up with one of Richard’s dorky old school friends, James. But as Kimmie slowly warms to James on a double date, Richard has a surprising reaction.

8:00 Revolution 10:00 Embarrassing Bodies 11:00 Weeds: Only Judy Can Judge 11:30 20/20 12:30 Extra 1:00 Brand Developers 3:00 Good Morning America 4:30 National Early Morning News 5:00 Today

5:30 Sunrise 8:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Movie: “Ice” (M v) 1:30 The Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News 6:00 Today Tonight 6:30 Home And Away 7:00 Dancing With The Stars 9:00 Body Of Proof: Daddy Issues - Tommy goes along with Megan to her father’s exhumation, which only yields more mysteries to what she has always been told was his suicide.

10:30 Special: I’m A Teenage Grandmother - With her teeth falling out and a face full of wrinkles, 15-year-old Zara looks like an old woman. Her rare condition, called Lipodystrophy, is literally robbing her of her childhood and her happiness.

11:30 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 12:00 30 Rock 12:30 Home Shopping 3:30 NBC Today 4:30 Sunrise Extra / 5:00 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Andre Rieu: Magic Of The Movies 2:30 A Hat Trick Of Haydn 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village 6:00 The Dales With Ade Edmondson 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 JFK - Looking ahead to the next election, Kennedy knows he must win Texas to have a second term. So he takes a fateful trip to Dallas, with Jackie accompanying him on her first domestic trip. It is there that an assassin’s bullet ends his life, forever enshrining him in myth.

8:30 Insight 9:30 Dateline 10:30 World News Australia 11:00 Masters Of Sex 12:00 Prisoners Of War - The mystery of the picture of the man on the shore with his two children, which hangs both in the villa at Jabaliya and at the home in Al Ajar village, continues to trouble Uri, who is ordered by Haim Cohen to investigate the matter with Iris.

1:05 Raw Opium / 3:00 Weatherwatch Overnight

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 National Press Club Address 1:30 At The Movies 2:00 The Jonathan Ross Show 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking: Sugar And Spice 6:25 Antiques Master 6:55 Lessons From The Grave 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Would I Lie To You? 8:30 QI: Hypothetical 9:00 Ja’mie: Private School Girl 9:30 Shock Horror Aunty 10:00 A Moody Christmas: Decapod Crustaceans 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:30 Young James Herriot 12:30 The Last Confession Of Alexander Pearce 1:30 My Family: Janey’s Choice 2:00 Movie: “My Favourite Wife” 3:30 Football: Women’s International AUS Vs CHN 5:30 Eggheads

5:30 Today 8:30 Danoz Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 10:30 National Morning News 11:30 The Ellen Degeneres Show 12:30 Hostages 1:30 Prime Suspect 2:30 National News Now 3:30 National Afternoon News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:00 A Current Affair 6:30 The Big Bang Theory: The Bus Pants Utilization 7:00 RBT 8:00 Hostages 9:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Under A Cloud 10:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Fallen Angels - A reverend is killed at the grave site of former CSI Warrick Brown.

11:00 Dallas 12:00 Extra 12:30 Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 1:00 Brand Developers 3:00 Good Morning America 4:30 National Early Morning News 5:00 Today

5:30 Sunrise 8:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Movie: “Nowhere To Run” (M v,l) 1:30 The Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News 6:00 Today Tonight 6:30 Home And Away 8:00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D 9:00 Surveillance Oz 9:30 Motorway Patrol 10:00 Air Crash Investigations: Pushed To The Limit - En route from Jakarta, Indonesia, to the airline’s home base in Singapore, SilkAir Flight 185 is 35,000 feet above the jungles of Sumatra when the plane banks sharply to the right, takes a nosedive, and crashes into a remote jungle river.

11:00 That ‘70s Show 11:30 The Cult 12:30 Home Shopping 3:00 Sons And Daughters 3:30 NBC Today / 4:30 Sunrise Extra / 5:00 Seven Early News

5:00 UEFA Champions League 2013/2014 7:30 World News 1:00 Insight 2:00 Dateline 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village 6:00 The Dales With Ade Edmondson 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero 8:35 24 Hours In Emergency: Live And Let Live 9:30 Borgen 10:35 World News Australia 11:05 Prisoners Of War: Mika’s Boyfriend - A flash back to the night of the kidnapping, reveals the events from Jamal’s point of view.

12:00 Movie: “No Return” (M v,a,l) - In Spanish. When a young boy on a bike is killed in a hit and run, his devastated father will do anything to bring the driver to justice. While the real killer is convinced by his family and lawyers to keep quiet, a series of unfortunate events lead an innocent man to be accused.

1:55 Weatherwatch Overnight

THURSDAY 21

5:30 Today 8:30 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 11:30 The Cricket Show 12:00 The Ashes: First Test - Australia Vs England 4:30 National News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:00 A Current Affair 6:30 The Big Bang Theory: The Zazzy Substitution - Everyone worries for Sheldon, who begins searching for non-human companionship.

7:00 The Big Bang Theory: The Hot Troll Deviation - Wolowitz is embarrassed when a secret of his is revealed; and Sheldon and Raj battle at work.

7:30 Top Gear Australia Bathurst Special 9:00 TBA 10:30 True CSI: Cold Blood: Death Of A Beauty King 11:30 TBA 12:30 The Baron 1:30 Brand Developers 3:00 Good Morning America 4:30 National Early Morning News / 5:00 Today

MONDAY 25

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TUESDAY 26

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WEDNESDAY 27

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 Wild China 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 My Family 1:00 Turn Back Time: The High Street 2:00 Parliament Question Time 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Nigella Slater’s Simple Cooking: Sweet & Sour 6:30 Auction Room 6:55 Clarke And Dawe 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Exhumed 8:30 Redfern Now: Consequences 9:30 The Hour 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:30 The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination 12:25 Parliament Question Time 1:25 My Family: He’s Just Not That Into Ben 1:55 Movie: “The Men” (PG) 3:25 Movie: “The Naked Jungle” (PG) 5:00 Shamwari: A Wild Life / 5:30 Eggheads

IMPARJA

12 – Arafura Times

20 - 26 November 2013

CROSSWORD No. 175

SUDOKU No. 175

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SCORPIO (October 24th - November 22nd) You may be feeling on edge because the people around you are not as “hyped” as you are at the moment. It will be up to you to motivate them. Romance. Your restlessness may affect your partner. They might feel comfortable with your current situation. Don’t force change!

SAGITTARIUS (November 23rd - December 21st) A much younger person may want to get to know you. This person has some good qualities, but the age difference could be a problem. Romance. Try to get your partner to share the household chores. You may even enjoy doing them together! Make a calendar to follow.

CAPRICORN (December 22nd - January 20th)

FOR KIDS

You will be able to achieve much more than you do normally. A lucky turn of fate will enable you to get one step ahead of your rivals this month. Romance. You and your mate are in sync at the moment. You may be a little surprised at how easily you can influence your partner.

AQUARIUS (January 21st - February 19th) A new friend’s actions seem suspicious.

They may not be as cunning as you think. They may just be bad at keeping surprises from you. Romance. A long discussion with your partner will bring up uncharted territory. There is more to them than you had initially thought.

PISCES (February 20th - March 20th) This will be a good day for getting rid of rubbish. Try to clear out as much stuff as possible - not just to make more room, but also to freshen up your life. Romance.

Your partner may be in a foul mood. Try to lighten them up with a night at a comedy club or a fun movie at home.

ARIES (March 21st - April 20th) You may be feeling exhausted in the mornings. Be sure to plan ahead so that you can wake up and go out the door. Romance. Be careful not to be too extravagant! You are not normally a greedy person.

Your partner is with you because you are kind and giving.

FINDWORD No. 175 A LAUGH WITH LOTSA

TAURUS (April 21st - May 21st) Don’t allow your knowledge to go to waste. You may want to brush up on previously studied subjects. They can be put to use at a later date. Romance. If you are in the mood for a night out, this would be a week to go. Bring your partner and friends and have a great time together!

GEMINI (May 22nd - June 21st)

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MUDDY RIVER

This will be a very successful week, so long as you avoid people who try to waste your time. You need to delegate your time wisely and work diligently. Romance.

Don’t think twice about buying your mate something they dearly need. They will be grateful that you thought of them!

CANCER (June 22nd - July 23rd) Something which you value highly may be slightly damaged this week. While you may be upset about this, it is important to keep things in perspective. Romance.

Working with your partner on a joint project will give you both the chance to understand each other better.

LEO (July 24th - August 23rd) You will be full of energy and rearing to go. The problem is that the people around you might not be so enthusiastic.

Romance. A game night at home with your mate could bring some friendly competition and flirting. Find some favourite ones to amplify the entertainment factor!

VIRGO (August 24th - September 23rd)

QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

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SOLUTIONS No. 175

Your ability to understand what a close friend of yours is thinking will help to bring you closer together. Try not to sway them one way or another though. Romance. A conflict of interest between you and your partner will have to be resolved before it becomes more serious.

LIBRA (September 24th - October 23rd) Don’t get involved in something you won’t fully invest yourself in. It’s senseless to start something you won’t care to finish.

Romance. Your mate will be impressed by your carefree mood. This will be an excellent time to concentrate on yourself and any long lost interests.

Arafura Times

20 - 26 November 2013 – 13

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING At Nhulunbuy Child Care Services Thursday, November 28 at 5.30pm All positions will be declared Vacant.

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Goodbye speed limits: NT’s risky road-safety strategy * By IAN J. FAULKS Honorary Associate in Psychology at Macquarie University from theconversation.com THERE has been a flurry of calls for higher speed limits on Australian roads over recent weeks, from Queensland, South Australia, and for major east coast highways.

So it’s no surprise the Northern Territory government has chosen to announce its long-delayed election commitment to remove a 130 km/h speed limit on its highways, and allow an open speed limit.

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To protect locals and tourists, territorians and “southerners”, the Northern Territory must adopt an evidence-based, coherent, co-ordinated, and actionable road safety plan.

An open speed limit has no place in such a strategy.

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Prior to 2007, rural stretches of Northern Territory highways had open speed limits, meaning the driver can choose the speed of travel. From February 2014, a 200 km stretch of the Stuart Highway north of Alice Springs will serve as a trial for a resumption of legal unlimited vehicle speeds.

There is clear evidence that, all other things being equal, faster vehicle speeds are associated with more crashes, more fatalities, and more serious injuries to road users.

This risk-outcomes relationship applies for both urban and rural roads.

Why is it risky?

Despite motoring enthusiasts’ belief that advanced driver education is associated with increased safety at speed, the risks relate to physiology and physics. For a motorist faced by a crisis when driving at high speeds: • there will be a longer distance travelled during the time it takes for a driver to recognise and react by braking • the stopping distance for a vehicle will be longer, and • after failing to stop in time to avoid a crash, there will be a higher impact speed.

This means the risk of harm is increased, regardless of factors such as road type and conditions, vehicle type, and driver ability.

So why would the Northern Territory adopt such a measure?

Politics of road rules The decision to re-introduce open speed limits on NT roads has drawn criticism from both within the Territory and “down south”. The announcement drew an immediate reproof by the Northern Territory News, which noted: Transport Minister Peter Styles has failed to outline any evidence that

TOP: Faster vehicle speeds are associated with more crashes, more fatalities, and more serious injuries.

LEFT: When it comes to road trauma, the Northern Territory is the worst-performing jurisdiction in Australia.

RIGHT: The Stuart Highway isn’t the best example of First World infrastructure. Images from theconversation.com supports the Government’s decision to bring back open speed limits.

The Northern Territory government has indicated that driver fatigue, alcohol impairment, and not wearing seat belts are the causes of crashes along the 200 km highway stretch.

But driving drunk and not using a seat belt are behaviours that do not relate at all to the removal of speed limits. And there is little evidence to suggest that fatigue and inattention is improved when driving at higher speeds. Indeed, the severity of crashes involving such factors would be exacerbated by higher speeds.

The government’s move appears to a political exercise rather than an evidence-based decision.

To make matters worse, the public and Australia’s road safety science community cannot find out the government’s reasons and rationale behind the open speed limit, as the commissioned reports said to justify the decision have been declared cabinet-in-confidence.

So suspicion remains about the reliability and validity of data that may have been used to support the decision. In particular: • What are the road trauma statistics for the road selected for the open speed limit trial?

• What has been the traffic policing enforcement for this stretch of road?

• Are police investigators likely to

identify speed as a contributing factor when crashes occur?

This final question comes as Transport Minister Peter Styles is reported to have admitted that traffic policing may be deficient, as drivers are ignoring outback speed limits.

“I did that trip, Alice Springs to Darwin, three and a half months ago,” he said. “I was sitting on 130km/h and people were whizzing by me all day. These weren’t young people in V8 utes, these were regular family people.”

Closer look at conditions Worryingly, there appears to have been scant consideration given to the conditions of the road, the vehicles, and the people, who will be driving this 200 km stretch of the Stuart Highway.

Reference to European roads, such as Germany’s autobahns, that have open speed limits is inappropriate: autobahns are well maintained, wellpoliced, divided and multi-lane roads.

The Stuart Highway, an undivided rural two-lane road with no passing lanes, no median barriers, unsealed shoulders, and subject to desert conditions, is not an analogue of such First World road infrastructure.

The vehicle mix on the highway means that road trains and towed caravans travelling at 110-120 km/h

will be faced with, and interacting with, other vehicles that may be travelling at 160, 180 or in excess of 200 km/h. Darwin resident Dwyn Delaney admits he drove at 280 km/h in the final week before 130 km/h limits were introduced in 2007.

Such speed differentials create unnecessary - and completely avoidable - hazards for all drivers.

As well, open speed limits may well serve to lure drivers into extreme behaviours, such as was seen in the Territory’s infamous 1994 Cannonball Run where four people died in a catastrophic crash involving a racer and race officials.

Improving safety The National Road Safety Strategy 2011-2020 commits all Australian jurisdictions to the Safe System approach. The elements required for a Safe System are well known: The aims of preventing crashes, and where this is not possible, to reduce the chance of severe injury to (almost) zero; requiring a balanced combination of the elements “road”, “vehicle”, and “person”.

The Stuart Highway does not meet these basic elements required for safe journeys.

As a result, when it comes to road trauma, the Northern Territory is the worst-performing jurisdiction in

Australia. Road accidents account for 20 deaths per 100,000 population.

This is four to five times the rate of the Australian States, and more than six times the Australian Capital Territory.

Regionally, the Northern Territory’s track record for road safety is far worse than low- and middleincome countries such as Bangladesh (12.6 deaths per 100,000 people), Cambodia (13), Papua New Guinea (14.2), India (16.8), Laos (18.1) and Thailand (19).

To protect locals and tourists, territorians and “southerners”, the Northern Territory must adopt an evidence-based, coherent, co-ordinated, and actionable road safety plan.

An open speed limit has no place in such a strategy. * Ian J. Faulks is affiliated with the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland, at Queensland University of Technology. Over 2007-2009, Ian was, together with Professor Mark Stevenson and Professor Rebecca Ivers, appointed as the Northern Territory Road Safety Expert. Over 2012-2013, Ian was deployed as an International Enforcement and Road Safety Specialist for the Integrated Road Safety Management System in Indonesia, a World Bank-funded project. Currently, Ian receives funding from the NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust, Corrective Services NSW, and Austroads for various road safety projects.

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NEWS & SPORT

OMG too hot to touch in tournament Story and photos: VIC MASTIN AFTER four games in the gruelling sun and a knockout semi-final win against a fellow Gove team, OMG won last Saturday’s East Arnhem Multicultural touch football tournament.

The mighty OMG defeated the reigning premiers of three years, Ramingining Warriors, at the tournament on Hindle Oval.

In the 32-degree heat, teams from Gove, Ramingining and Elcho Island came together to compete for the Arnhem Cup. Sponsored by the Australian Government, NT Government, Touch Australia and NT Touch, this tournament was all about providing a wider range of sporting competition for the region and encouraging interest for communities, as well as providing an opportunity for development and coaching clinics for teams throughout East Arnhem Land.

This event has been running for four years all of which have been played in Jabiru.

Isobel Appo, from NT Touch, was the drive behind this tournament and said she “wants to see it grow and have even more teams participating in the years to come”.

A huge credit goes out to all the teams and referees who participated on the day, and in the demanding heat.

Thank you to all that helped make this event happen, and many thanks to the sponsors who made it possible.

ABOVE TOP LEFT: A Raminging player avoids touch from OMG. ABOVE TOP RIGHT: Players go for goal while battling extreme heat.

ABOVE LEFT: An OMG player tries to step past the Ramingining defence in the Grand Final.

ABOVE RIGHT: A Ramingining Warrior dives in a try.

LEFT: Elcho tries to break Ramingining’s defence.

Happy snapper heeds warning signs

Students at the Science Experience.

Arnhem Land students have fun with science

A camera friendly 2.4-metre crocodile floating by a warning sign in Cooktown, Qld. Photo courtesy: Pat Wilson.

A SISTER newspaper of the Arafura Times, the Cooktown Local News, based in Far North Queensland, recently stumbled upon a great example of truth in advertising.

A Cook Shire Council worker was recently driving back to work from his lunch break when he saw a 2.4m crocodile resting on the bank at the Endeavour River water’s edge.

Unperturbed by the worker’s approach with his camera, the animal was virtually posing perfectly under a crocodile warning sign.

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Across the road from the river’s edge is the Lions Park and a children’s playground about 50m from that road.

National Parks and Wildlife rangers have been trying to trap and remove four crocs from the river because of their recent, moreincreased “familiarity” with humans in the area.

The program started after a four-metre croc surfaced with its head and shoulders out of the water at the nearby wharf, frightening a

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family on the evening of Sunday, November 3.

Earlier concerns the reptile’s action was an attempted attack on the family have since been discounted by a witnesses opinion the animal was hunting barramundi, which have been abundant in that area in recent times.

The four-metre croc and the one pictured have eluded the rangers’ traps, while two have been recently trapped and relocated to a crocodile farm.

STUDENTS from Gapuwiyak and Ramingining Schools have participated in a three-day science program at Charles Darwin University (CDU).

The ConocoPhillips Science Experience took place at the CDU Casuarina campus, with 100 Year Nine students from across the Territory coming together.

The students experienced hands-on science activities due to the financial support of naming rights sponsor ConocoPhillips, in association with the Science Schools Foundation and CDU. The event was proudly supported by the CDU Faculty of Engineering, Health, Science and the Environment, and hosted by the School of Environment.

The ConocoPhillips Science Experience offers a comprehensive program of

activities to inspire high school students to consider a career in health, science or engineering.

Across lab activities, workshops and excursions students worked alongside leading CDU staff members from the schools of Medical Science, Information & Technology, Engineering, Pharmacy, Sports Science, Biodiversity, Aquaculture and Horticulture.

A highlight of the program was a visit to the ConocoPhillips Darwin LNG plant, where students learnt about the technology and processes involved in operating a major energy facility.

ConocoPhillips Darwin Operations Manager Steve Thatcher, spoke with students about the variety of career possibilities in the oil and gas industry.

SPORT

Rugby lads hit up Singapore for the 10th time THE East Arnhem Rugby Union Men’s team left for Singapore on Wednesday October 30 to attend their 10th Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) Rugby Sevens tournament.

The team was a truly mixed bunch of rugby lads; some very experienced in Hayden ‘Rock’ Rickard, right down to the relatively novice in Aeden Bryce, who was contesting his first international event.

The boys quickly became familiar with the territory and terrain of the shopping and night club scene in the first couple of nights and then got down to business.

They played two teams in their pool who were professional touring Sevens teams.

The Penguins from England (50-5 loss) and the French Development team (51-0).

Our team also lost to another team (49-5).

On day three we came into our own and played three teams of a similar level of expertise.

We defeated all but one (where we drew 12-12).

This meant we were into the Bowl final and hoping to bring back the Silverware.

Our warrior lads had fought hard and had been worn down to a team of nine from 12. We had a knee injury, an A/C joint and a dislocated shoulder.

They battled hard but were defeated in the end by the NS Wanderers from Malaysia (14-15).

I would like to thank the boys for the effort they put in.

I would also like to say to all the Nhulunbuy community that we all should be proud of the commitment they made to just getting to Singapore and competing they way they did; well done guys.

Harder, Stronger, Faster.

Yours in Rugby, Sean ‘Ocker’ O’Connor

East Arnhem Rugby Union Men’s team competed in the 10th Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) from November 1 to 3.

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Nhulunbuy Community Guide Community organisations Arafura Dance Assoc.

Contact: President Lesley Tankard P: 8987 2136 A/H.

Nhulunbuy Toy Library Contact: Lorretta Peirce M: 04130913 127 E: westrett@optusnet.com.au Lodge Arafura Contact: Secretary P: 0418 831 120 or 0437 272 210

Arnhem Early Learning Centre Contact: Director 8987 1004 E: aelcdirector@bigpond.com

East Arnhem Land Tourism Association Contact: John Tourish P: 8939 2000

Arnhem Gun Club Contact: President, Grub Stevens E: grub.gove@bigpond.com Arnhem Land Bowls Club Contact: Secretary Lisa Pullen P: 0418 609 807

East Arnhem Rugby Union Contact: Eddie P: 0407 002 357

Arnhem Writers Contact: Ian Maclean P: 0417 601 490 Australian Breastfeeding Assoc.

Contact: Meaghan Kennedy P: 0438 175 260 Helpline:1800 686 2686 E: nhulunbuyba@gmail.com Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre P: 8987 1701 E: art@yirrkala.com Captain Cook Comunity Centre Captain Cook Community Centre President: Richard Webb M: 0404 351 839 E: richard.webb@riotinto.com Endeavour Room Bookings: Contact: Lorretta Peirce M: 04130913 127 E: westrett@optusnet.com.au Gove Arts Theatre Contact: Chris Andrews P: 0428 856 392 E: sma44324@bigpond.com Nhulunbuy Playgroup Contact: Cassie McIllree P: 0418 322 719 E: nhulunbuyplaygroup@gmail.com

Gove Peninsula Festival Contact: Ian Maclean P: 0417 601 490 E: govefestival@yahoo.com.au Gove Peninsula Surf Life Saving Club Contact: Chris Putland P: 8987 8083 Gove Peninsula Tennis Club Contact: Nicky Mayer P: 8987 2640

Nhulunbuy Child Care Services Inc. Contact: Maria Akapita (Director) P: 8987 3311 F: 8987 3097 E: nhulunbuychildcare@bigpond.com Nhulunbuy Speedway Contact: Dan Wagg P: 0409 679 938 Northern Territory Emergency Service P: 0427 392 264

Gove Touch Footy Contact: Bec Thomson E: secretarygtouch@hotmail.com

Oasis Play Time Contact: Nisha, P: 0437 141 291 Old Codgers: Contact: Shane Ogg P: 0423 172 139

8EAR Community Radio (Gove FM) Contact: Michael Stimpson P: 8987 1500 E: admin@govefm.com.au

Gove Volleyball Assoc.

Contact: Fred Rowe - Pres P: 0417 080 579 E: fredntash@froggy.com.au

Queens Bus (Variety NT) Contact: Angie Moyle P: 0408 838 498 or Facebook us at: Queens - Variety NT

Gove 8 Ball Contact: Adam White P: 0438 809 620

Junior 8 Ball Contact: Marian Richter P: 0402 355 499

Runners North Contact: Vanessa Drysdale P: 8987 8005

Gove Astronomy Club Contact: Ian Maclean P: 0417 601 490

MOPS Contact: Katie Hovenden P: 8987 1607

RSPCA: Contact: RSPCA Volunteer P: 0437 526 502

Gove Country Golf Club & Gove Country Golf Club - Juniors Contact: Jamie Henderson E: manager@gcgc.com.au P: 8987 3191

Nhulunbuy Amateur Swimming Club Contact: Stephen Wolfaardt P: 0488 082 503

Gove Golden Oldies Contact: Ria Ngamoki P: 8987 3530 Gove Junior Football Club Contact: David Hill P: 0438 861 599 Gove Junior Rugby Contact: Jon Regan P: 8987 8094

Nhulunbuy BMX Club Inc Contact: Donna Leahy, Secretary P: 0409 173 562 Nhulunbuy Community Neighbourhood Centre Contact: NCNC Director P: 08 8987 2191 E: ncnc@email.voicetalk.com.au Nhulunbuy Motorcycle Club Contact: Pete McKormack P: 0447 801 141

Gove Netball Assoc.

Contact: Helen Clark - Pres P: 8987 3728 M: 0438 873 728

Nhulunbuy Regional Sport Fishing Club Contact: Ian Shepherd P: 0412 892 703

Thu 21

Fri 22

Time 0421 0959 1637 2303

Time 0453 1033 1709 2339

Time 0524 1108 1743

Ht 1.31 3.12 0.54 2.71

Ht 1.36 3.10 0.56 2.68

Sat 23 Ht 1.39 3.06 0.61

Time 0014 0556 1141 1819

Ht 2.63 1.43 2.99 0.68

Sun 24

Mon 25

Tue 26

Time 0050 0631 1217 1857

Time 0128 0711 1255 1938

Time 0210 0758 1338 2024

Ht 2.59 1.47 2.89 0.77

Ht 2.54 1.52 2.78 0.87

OASIS Christian Assembly Pastor Phil Sampson – Ph: 8987 1522 / 8987 1369 Seventh-Day Adventist Church Ph: 8987 2375 / 0419 465 045 Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga Hala Tupou – Ph: 8987 3553 Nhulunbuy Baptist Church Sundays 9.30am at Town Hall – Ph: 8987 1256 Uniting Church: Sunday Service 9.30am Hazel Trudgen – Ph: 8987 3545 Mobile 0413 536 877 Forward in Faith Ministries Sunday: 10am – 12.30pm. Endeavour Room at the Captain Cook Community Centre. Ph: 0434 059611 or 8987 8268.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Brother Forbes 0428 767 616 – Sunday 10am.

WATER CONSUMPTION TABLE

NHULUNBUY

Rotary Club Nhulunbuy Contact: Stephanie Freeman P: 0400 172 599 E: stephfreeman@live.com.au Scouts Nhulunbuy Contact: Group Leader E: gl.nhulunbuy@nthq.scouts.com.au Squash Club Contact: Donna Marie, P: 8987 1272 Tae Kwon Do Nhulunbuy Contact: Paul Macloy P: 0407 106 525 TourDeArnhemland Contact: Des O’Sullivan P: 0418 840 957 E: tourdearnhemland@hotmail.com T.S. Melville Naval Cadet Training P: 8987 2562

Tide times – Gove Harbour (Melville Bay) Wed 20

Church services

Sacred Heart Catholic Church Vigil Saturday 6.00pm, Sunday Service 8.30am

LAST QTR

Ht 2.52 1.56 2.64 0.98

NOTE: these are predictions only, subject to change due to prevailing weather conditions. It is recommended you use this table as a guide only.

W/E Nov 10 W/E Nov 10 Variance Actual Usage Target Usage

Day

Total Per head Total Per head Total Per head Kilolitres of Pop: Lt Kilolitres of Pop: Lt Kilolitres of Pop: Lt

Monday 4/11

8431

2219

8100

2132

331

87

Tuesday 5/11

7941

2090

7300

1921

641

169

Wednesday 6/11

7658

2015

7700

2026

-42

-11

Thursday 7/11

7780

2047

8200

2158

-420

-111

Friday 8/11

8251

2171

8300

2184

-49

-13

Saturday 9/11

7633

2009

7900

2079

-267

-70

Sunday 10/11

6079

1600

7300

1921

-1221

-321

53773 14151 54800 14421

-1027

-270

TOTAL

Other Cities Av. Consumption / Head of Pop. Brisbane 270 • Darwin 1100 • Perth 340

Weather details o

Temperature ( C) Max Min Rainfall Monday 11 34.4 24.5 NIL Tuesday 12 34.1 23.2 NIL Wednesday 13 32.8 24.3 0.6 Thursday 14 30.6 23.6 0.4 Friday 15 32.5 23.0 9.6 Saturday 16 33.5 23.3 0.4 Sunday 17 33.1 23.7 NIL Monthly total rainfall to date: 11mm

Weather details supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology – Gove Airport from Monday, Oct 28 to Sunday, Nov 3

Mean sea level pressure Max: 1011.3 hPa on Thursday Min: 1005.4 hPa on Friday Averages for the month of November Max temp: 33.1 Min temp: 23.4 Rainfall: 44.4 mm

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GOVE TENNIS CELEBRATES A SLAMMING 2013

Some of the many Hot Shots coaching award winners Jai Florian, Nikki Cuperus and Zali Northsworthy.

ABOVE: MLA Lynne Walker with Social Singles Women’s winner, Donna-Marie Grieve.

BELOW: Winner of the Open Men’s Singles, Damien Butler

Lyn Mitchell, with Club Manager Nicky Mayer, accepts an award for her daughter Caitlyn Mitchell, for her performance and commitment.

ON Saturday, November 9, Gove Tennis Club took the time to recognise the key players who helped make the 2013 tennis season one of the most-successful in recent memory.

Their annual presentation night was held at the Arnhem Club’s Bali Pavilion, where they wrapped up the tournament season with awards.

It was also a way of congratulating the victors from the last tournament, the Tennis Gove Club Championships, which were held in September.

There were plenty of winners on the night; a good mix of new talent and the consistent old guard retaining their strength.

The photos below show just some of the many worthy winners of Gove Tennis’ 2013 tournament season.

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One of the top players of the year, Harry Walker, was named as the Club Ambassador for 2013, for his good sportsmanship, enthusiasm and his camaraderie with the junior players. The award was donated by Tracy (right) and Alan Naughton.

ABOVE: Members of the 2013 Gove Tennis Club Committee gave manager Nicky Mayer (far left) a present for her tireless dedication to the club.

COURT SUPERVISOR COURSE GRADUATES: Maree Marrett, Nick O’Callaghan, Sarah Carlile, Donna-Marie Grieve, Paul Mery, Chantelle and Eugene Venter.

ABOVE LEFT: Most improved Green Ball player Nikki Cuperus.

ABOVE: Jonah Marr accepted the trophy for Most Improved PeeWee (Under Fives) for his brother Xavier.

ABOVE RIGHT: Club Volunteer of the Year Eugene Venter with award sponsor Gil Avila from Gil’s Graphics.

LEFT: Winner of the Social men’s singles competition Harry Walker, with runner-up Brendan Muldoon (presented by Lynne Walker).

RIGHT: Tennis Club Vice President Paul Mery presents Reuben O’Callaghan with the award for highest points scorer in the 2013 Orange Ball Junior Competition.

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ABOVE: Most improved Red Ball Junior player Jamie-Lee Roath.

BELOW: Most Improved Yellow Ball player was Liam Arkcoll (in just his first year playing tennis).

Highest Point Scorer for the Yellow Ball Junior Competition Louane Venter.

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Tennis Club cementing its place at the top <- Year starts and ends in triumph - > LEFT: Gove Tennis Club’s year began with one of its young stars Zachary Scott (top right) meeting tennis legends Rod Laver (back left) and Andre Agassi. (back centre) . . .

LIKE the buffalo on its logo would, Gove’s Tennis Club has stomped the competition and charged home to take out the 2013 Tennis NT Club of the Year Award on November 2.

It’s the fourth year in a row our remote town’s tennis club has won the award, and the ninth out of the 12 years the award has been in existence.

A posse from the club’s committee travelled up to Darwin to accept the award, which Club Manager Nicky

Mayer said was testament to a massive year of hard work.

“This year has just been enormous, considering the rocky start we had with the pending Gas-to-Gove announcement.

“It started with young player Zachary Scott being picked to represent the NT at the Super 10s in Melbourne, a national event, where I also coached a girls’ team.”

Among many other things, including a number of successful tournaments,

RIGHT: . . . And ended with them being named the NT Club of the Year on November 2. Pictured here, committee members Eugene and Chantelle Venter, Nicky Mayer and Paul Mery accepting the award in Darwin.

2013 was also the club’s forty year anniversary. A big party was held to celebrate the occasion back in September.

Since then, Nicky has returned to Melbourne, where she was invited to join a think-tank discussion with 24 heads of other successful tennis clubs to share advice to be used by clubs around the country, to show them paths they could take to achieve similar success.

And on December 1, Gove’s Tennis Club will once again be vying for a

prestigious Newcombe Medal, for the Most Outstanding Tennis Community, which they won in 2010 and 2011.

“We couldn’t have done all this without the loyal support of our sponsors Power and Water, Northern Territory Government, Kowhai Constructions, BanuBanu, Leo Roach from BP, the Arnhem Club, Gil’s Graphics, Toll Marine Logistics, Medibank and Lynne Walker.

“And a special thank you to Pacific

Aluminium for repairing our lights and helping us host the huge party for our 40th birthday celebrations.”

Also at the Tennis NT Awards, rising young tennis star Caitlyn Mitchell, who grew up in Gove, was presented with two trophies on the night - the NT Female Senior Points Winner and the NT Junior Incentive Player Award.

For more info about getting involved with Gove Tennis, contact Nicky (8987 2640).

East Arnhem kids following the path of AFL legend ABOVE RIGHT: The East Arnhem team at the recent innagural Michael Long Cup in Palmerston.

RIGHT: Action from the East Arnhem Team in the Under 14s Michael Long Cup. Over 32 indigenous Eylandt Regional DevelFITTINGLY named after an ALF legend, the inaugu- communities were repre- opment Manager Robbie ral Michael Long Cup was sented in the carnival as Williams.” held recently to try to find well as the larger town Four boys were selected some NT footy legends for centres such as Katherine out of the East Arnhem side and Alice Springs. to go into the Michael Long the future.

Players from across A F L N T R e g i o n a l Academy: Ramos Bara East Arnhem Land took Development Manager for Bara (Groote Eylandt), part in the huge Under Gapuwiyak Mick Mon- G u d j p i r r ‘ Ti n y ’ Yu n 14s tournament, including tague said the East Arnhem upingu (Yirrkala), Nicholas from communities Yirrkala, side gelled well together ‘Stormboy’ Mununggurr Gapuwiyak, Gan Gan, and played with great spirit (Gapuwiyak) and Denzel Elcho Island and Groote in all their games, winning Marika (Elcho Island).

These players will now Eylandt. against teams West Arnhem get a training regime to It was held this month and Wanderers. in Palmerston, to select a “Although losing to ensure they continue to City and a Country squad Southern Districts and develop their fitness and for the new Michael Long Waratahs, the team put skills in the game, and Academy, which has been in great efforts and was continue on an AFL NT pegged to be built in 2015. well coached by Groote talent pathway.

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