Kieran Finnane - Alice Springs News https://alicespringsnews.com.au The freedom of the press still furnishes that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide - Chicago Tribune. Sun, 17 Sep 2023 03:28:34 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 195104910 Understanding this No, voting Yes https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/09/14/understanding-this-no-voting-yes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=understanding-this-no-voting-yes https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/09/14/understanding-this-no-voting-yes/#comments Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:01:21 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=88218 By KIERAN FINNANE Two prominent Aboriginal men from the Centre, one speaking to a deeply felt No on the Voice, based on his utter distrust of government, the other speaking to a passionate Yes, based on his faith in the possibility of shaping, with other Australians, “a better nation”. Together, and with responses from other […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/09/14/understanding-this-no-voting-yes/feed/ 14 88218 A fiercely independent writer ‘neither asleep, nor woke’ https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/12/02/a-fiercely-independent-writer-neither-asleep-nor-woke/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-fiercely-independent-writer-neither-asleep-nor-woke https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/12/02/a-fiercely-independent-writer-neither-asleep-nor-woke/#respond Fri, 02 Dec 2022 07:22:55 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=86137 By RUSSELL GOLDFLAM We’re privileged to sit, to read, to talk, to dream and to live in Mparntwe, here on Arrernte country. And I was privileged to help launch radical cartographer Kim Mahood’s book Wandering With Intent, in which she hunts and gathers her way through the world, sitting, reading, talking, dreaming and living in […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/12/02/a-fiercely-independent-writer-neither-asleep-nor-woke/feed/ 0 86137 Undoing the ‘great Australian silence’ https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=undoing-the-great-australian-silence https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/#respond Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:30:29 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=85301 Review by KIERAN FINNANE As a boy in the early 1950s, Dean Ashenden lived in Tennant Creek in a white world. He cannot recall ever having spoken to an Aboriginal person while he was there, apart from three boys who went to his school, sons of the night soil collector and his Aboriginal wife. They […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/feed/ 0 85301 Memoir: ‘We met everything that came to us’ https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/30/memoir-we-met-everything-that-came-to-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=memoir-we-met-everything-that-came-to-us https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/30/memoir-we-met-everything-that-came-to-us/#respond Tue, 30 Nov 2021 08:05:23 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=85034 By KIERAN FINNANE I have recently kept the company of a remarkable group of people, Aboriginal people from these central parts, many of them of mixed descent, living at the vanguard of adaptation to the massive changes thrust upon them by the European invasion of their lands. They have passed on now but not so […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/30/memoir-we-met-everything-that-came-to-us/feed/ 0 85034 H. J. Furber and unfinished business https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/24/h-j-furber-and-unfinished-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=h-j-furber-and-unfinished-business https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/24/h-j-furber-and-unfinished-business/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:31:29 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=84982 By KIERAN FINNANE In 1957, when he was just four and a half, the government, in removing him from his mother and sending him to faraway Croker Island, tried to sever his connection with his Aboriginal families, with his Country. They did damage but they didn’t manage to destroy either. From his late teens into […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/24/h-j-furber-and-unfinished-business/feed/ 3 84982 On discovering the shocking low rate for the NT solar feed-in tariff https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/18/on-discovering-the-egregious-low-rate-for-the-nt-solar-feed-in-tariff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-discovering-the-egregious-low-rate-for-the-nt-solar-feed-in-tariff https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/18/on-discovering-the-egregious-low-rate-for-the-nt-solar-feed-in-tariff/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2021 02:30:13 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=84938 LETTER TO THE EDITOR I recently sent this letter to Minister for Essential Services Eva Lawler:- Dear Honourable Minister, We bought our house here in Alice Springs five years ago hoping to move in imminently but I was struck down with Acute Leukaemia, so we were delayed and moved in March this year. On buying […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/18/on-discovering-the-egregious-low-rate-for-the-nt-solar-feed-in-tariff/feed/ 12 84938 Peter Latz: Wizard, ethno-botanist and countryman https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/16/peter-latz-wizard-ethno-botanist-and-countryman/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peter-latz-wizard-ethno-botanist-and-countryman https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/16/peter-latz-wizard-ethno-botanist-and-countryman/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:33:06 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=84905 As someone who has made a lifelong contribution to our understanding and appreciation of arid zone botany, much loved Central Australian man Peter Latz has been awarded this year’s Australian Natural History Medallion. The award is managed by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, with nominations from all over the country. At the recent presentation […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/16/peter-latz-wizard-ethno-botanist-and-countryman/feed/ 2 84905 Rolfe trial: Crown wins appeal, ‘good faith’ defence not available https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/10/rolfe-trial-crown-wins-appeal-good-faith-defence-not-available/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rolfe-trial-crown-wins-appeal-good-faith-defence-not-available https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/10/rolfe-trial-crown-wins-appeal-good-faith-defence-not-available/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2021 09:31:18 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=84840 By KIERAN FINNANE A decision by the High Court today means that police officer Zachary Rolfe will not be able to rely on the so-called “good faith” defence in his trial for the murder of Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu on November 9, 2019. He is pleading not guilty to the charge. The good faith defence, […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/10/rolfe-trial-crown-wins-appeal-good-faith-defence-not-available/feed/ 3 84840 Vale H. Furber: a determined advocate for what he believed in https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/09/vale-h-furber-a-determined-advocate-for-what-he-believed-in/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vale-h-furber-a-determined-advocate-for-what-he-believed-in https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/09/vale-h-furber-a-determined-advocate-for-what-he-believed-in/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:32:26 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=84806 By ERWIN CHLANDA and KIERAN FINNANE A fond memory we have of H. Furber, who sadly passed away last week, aged 69, is of shooting the breeze with him on many a wintry Sunday morning on the sideline of the soccer fields, where our sons, his Declan and our Rainer – then primary school lads, […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/09/vale-h-furber-a-determined-advocate-for-what-he-believed-in/feed/ 4 84806 Rolfe trial: actions afoot in High Court and Supreme Court https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/05/rolfe-trial-actions-afoot-in-high-court-and-supreme-court/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rolfe-trial-actions-afoot-in-high-court-and-supreme-court https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/11/05/rolfe-trial-actions-afoot-in-high-court-and-supreme-court/#respond Fri, 05 Nov 2021 02:41:20 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=84774 By KIERAN FINNANE The High Court will deliver its decision on a legal matter in the murder trial of police officer Zachary Rolfe next Wednesday, 10 November. Mr Rolfe is accused of the murder of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu on 9 November 2019. He is pleading not guilty. The High Court’s decision will concern […]

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