Aboriginal Issues
NIMA, NIMA, NIMA…
The National Indigenous Music Awards were held in Darwin over the weekend and as per usual it was the Gurrumul Yunipingu show, with the man from Elcho Island taking out 4 gongs… with the Warumpi Band the highlight for me, they were fully sick. I was shooting officially but had a small studio set up... »
Some place I’ve been to now!
I’ve just returned from the Limmen Bight on the Territory side of the gulf of Carpentaria where there’s a bit of a storm building over proposed mining activity in the area, you can see more of the photos and read the story here. This magisterial work by Gulf Artist Simon Normand lays out the Traditional... »
The East Kimberley # 2
I’ve had a few e-mails asking for another look at that cave in the East Kimberley, as well as directions. Ok …you arrive in Kunnanura, drive south, turn left, get bogged in soft sand, let your tyres down, drive around in circles for a few hours, get bogged again look up in despair and there... »
The East Kimberley
Sometimes when you are looking for something in particular ( like a lost journalist) , you find something else , something perfect…someone obviously felt the same way when they propped that skull up amidst some of the oldest carvings in the Kimberley. »
The “Dry” is here!
After a big wet that brought 3 meters plus of rain since Christmas the Top End is drying out and things are getting busier, It Started with Anzac Day at Adelaide River And then onto the Arafura Games and then over to Quail Island , being careful where to step… The debut of the RAAF’s new Super Hornet... »
Made the cut!
I’ve just been announced as a finalist in the Moran contemporary photography prize, which makes a change from the last time I was associated with the Moran name was chasing Doug and Greta up and down Phillip St before and after court sittings in the earlier part of this century. As a coincidence last week I... »
Vale Maurice Rioli.
I covered the NT state funeral of former Richmond legend and Territory MP Maurice Rioli Yesterday for the Age and Sydney Morning Herald and at the behest of a few people who were in the back of the cathedral who couln’t see what was going on I’m posting a few that didn’t get a... »
A journey to “THE” Island Home
I have just completed an assignment for the SMH with reporter Bruce Elder on Elcho Island where to quote my mate Bob Gosford ” That mob on Elcho are a good mob no different from the rest of Arnhem land, just a little bit more relaxed about things”. The one thing that stands out on... »
Mutika # 15 – Meet me at Honeymoon Bore!
The thing about the Territory is distance, a majority of the work I do is in and around Aboriginal communities , and that means a lot of driving. The last big trip was down to Ampilatwatja where the locals walked out of their community in protest against raw sewerage flowing through their yards, substandard... »
Mutika # 12
Revisiting Owen Springs after a hard morning of chasing scrubbers around the sandhills. »