Marshall Perron moves to the back bench
A constant through my time political reporting in the Northern territory was Marshall Perron. I interviewed him in all guises, while he was a minister, the Treasurer, the Attorney General,…
A constant through my time political reporting in the Northern territory was Marshall Perron. I interviewed him in all guises, while he was a minister, the Treasurer, the Attorney General,…
Barramundi fishing is not just a recreational sport, but big business in the Northern Territory. The tension however has always existed between the recreational and tourism aspects to barramundi fishing,…
When you are a reporter you sometimes come across people with a clean vision of what they want to do, and how they want to do it. Rarely however have…
While working in Darwin, TV reporters tend to do a number of stories relating to the military and Australia's defence forces. The top end is home to significant Australian forces,…
In 1985 I covered the maiden voyage of the HMAS Darwin. A guided missile frigate, the ship was built in the United States and on shake-down had undertaken its maiden…
An early experience of Aboriginal land rights came when I went to Tennant Creek to cover the Warramungu land claim. What I found was no firebrand politics and protests, but…
This was one of the first stories I covered on arriving in Darwin in 1985. In March 1985 a large crocodile was worrying workers building a bridge over the the…
While the conflict between commercial and recreational fishing interests was significant in the Territory, so was the conflict between recreational fishing and conservation interests. In this story from 1985, recreational…
Not long after I arrived in Darwin, the city received one of its more unusual military visitors, the USS Pogy, a nuclear submarine. At the time it was standard policy…
With the more stringent conservation methods being applied in many national parks, 1985 saw conflicts arise between those who wanted to see National parks conserved entirely, and those who saw…