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Town blows $14m on pokies, not counting Alice’s biggest gambling place

Erwin Chlanda — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:33:06 +0000

By ERWIN CHLANDA Gamblers playing the pokies in Alice Springs clubs and pubs lost almost $14m in 2022-23. This doesn’t include the poker machines in Lasseters Casino whose data “cannot be provided due to commercial-in-confidence,” according to the Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade. That is clearly a huge multiple of the disclosed figure. Meanwhile […]

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On a roll in the Todd

Erwin Chlanda — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 03:34:03 +0000

By ROD MOSS John Wallace, Michael from Uluru, Donella and Lawrence Hayes sit on a blanket playing cards. Adrian Hayes snr sits astride the inverted milk crate. At slight remove from the game are Dorrie Campbell, Michael Hayes and Denise Doolan. Joey Hayes approaches the group. I recall concentrated games in Todd River when a […]

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The inland see came in a green box

Erwin Chlanda — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:02:50 +0000

By ROD MOSS Alcohol is the most destructive recreational drug in Central Australia. At the time of this painting, beer apart, the most maligned variant was the “little green box” of casked Coolibah white wine; cheap and nasty. Empty boxes littered the Todd River after card-playing parties. The dry riverbed was awash with them. With […]

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Aboriginal tourism: Big opportunities

Erwin Chlanda — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 04:04:30 +0000

By ERWIN CHLANDA Aboriginal people have freehold ownership of half the Territory’s landmass. In The Centre that includes the magnificent MacDonnell Ranges, currently on lease to the NT Government which is doing very little with this major asset. The Ayers Rock Resort was bought in 2011 by the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation (ILSC) which […]

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Chronicle of time on canvas

Erwin Chlanda — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:37:52 +0000

By ROD MOSS Responding to my immediate environment, a chronicle of my time, is the intention of this series about my paintings. They are mostly reconstructions of events, poised between fact and fiction and presented chronologically like excerpts from a large format visual journal. Of the 300 or more works, One History Rolling (first version, […]

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Is being remote as ever a good or a bad thing?

Erwin Chlanda — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 08:42:04 +0000

REVIEW by ERWIN CHLANDA It’s night at Rabbit Flat. The gas cooker on a camping tour bus blows up. A passenger is seriously injured. The nearest hospital is 600 km away, in Alice Springs, where Dr David Scrimgeour (at right) is getting ready to turn in for the night. He gets the call. The Flying […]

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First contact was often child rape

Erwin Chlanda — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 06:03:18 +0000

By JOHN P Mc D SMITH A Scotsman, John McDouall Stuart, explored Northern Australia during 1860-62, which led to the opening up of what was to become the Northern Territory in 1911. Another Scotsman, Doctor Charles Duguid, began his significant and far-reaching association with Aborigines in 1934 in the Northern Territory. This was to lead […]

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Making sense of the rules for two worlds

Erwin Chlanda — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 02:48:24 +0000

By ERWIN CHLANDA Amongst the likely business people, public servants, activists and pensioners on the 14th Town Council Michael Liddle – if elected – will be coming with hard earned recognition on both sides of the racial divide, sharp as it may be in this part of the world. By white man’s standards Mr Liddle’s […]

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Alice has more poker machines than most

Erwin Chlanda — Thu, 20 May 2021 07:51:53 +0000

By OSCAR PERRI The Northern Territory has more than twice the number of poker machines per person than Victoria, and the figure is nearly as high for SA, as the Lasseters Casino in Alice Springs moves into new hands. For NT venues like clubs and pubs to get a license or more machines, they have […]

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Their blackboard is fertile red dirt

Erwin Chlanda — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:05:14 +0000

By JULIUS DENNIS The landscape surrounding Uncle’s Farm defines arid. Buffel grows in dense puffs. Dust follows cars in billowing clouds. To the untrained eye, it seems an awfully strange place for growing food. It sits a couple of kilometres outside the remote community of Ali Curung, 377 klicks north of Alice Springs, off the […]

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