tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132997522007-05-03T19:35:11.407+09:30NAP web teamBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13299752.post-30931167443431102062007-05-03T17:13:00.000+09:302007-05-03T17:23:21.198+09:30

A month in Darwin's Berrimah jail, from March 12 to April 8, sheeted home several undemocratic truths to former print journalist ROB INDER-SMITH. The sight of the exit gate to freedom came as my head was giddy with mixed emotions. The triumph of a plan unhatched and about to be fulfilled swirled with the rage just conjured up by Officer Move Out!, who could not let me pass through "Checkpoint

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I’m still free and my embarrassment would know no bounds, except for the fact that it should be theirs that led long ago to the plug being pulled on the travesty that is my own saga. The words “state” and “embarrassment” seldom go together, this we know. Modern terms of reference that conveniently constrain the state and its alter ego, “robust democracy”, do not allow for the triflings

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The Network Against Prohibition had a bitter-sweet victory in the Northern Territory Supreme Court yesterday, after its appeal against sentencing was upheld by Justice Southwood. Two of the last four “parliament invaders” of May, 2002, Ema Birkeland-Corro and Stuart Highway, had their five-month jail terms reduced and fully suspended. But the other two, Rob Inder-Smith and Ishmael Lambe,

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Written by Rob Inder-Smith on January 10, 2006 but was not published until January 21. We apologise for the delay in getting this published - NAPNT Web Team The Northern Territory’s Chief Justice Brian Martin has refused to accept an 11th-hour legal argument by the “sixth Parliament Invader”, Scott White. As well, Justice Martin refused to explain his decision, dismissing Mr White’s submission

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Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the mutual flagellation society that masqueraded yesterday as a Northern Territory Supreme Court hearing, were the conditions that Chief Justice Brian Martin imposed upon the “fifth Parliament invader” Scott White. After handing Scott a 10-week fully suspended prison sentence with a two-year good behaviour bond, Justice Martin then announced the three

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Book: Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs Author: James P. Gray (judge) Reviewer: Hemsley Rajala Judge James P. Gray performs heroics in the title alone of his compelling book, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What we Can do About It. Just to make sure readers are left in doubt about the subject matter, he adds the sub-title, A

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Now that the farce otherwise known as the NT election has panned out exactly as predicted by the Network Against Prohibition, a few home truths linger, like gargoyles staring us in the face. Each beady eye points at one and the same thing, both connected: the future of the Northern Territory - and the future of the NT Greens. Last first. The greens, those perennial also-rans, preferenced

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I never used to vote for one good reason: none of the talking heads that were either incumbent or aspiring politicians deserved my vote. Ever since I was a teenager, I remember wondering why it was that so much of their energies were devoted to trying to whip up interest in what to me was nothing more than static. As I grew older, I realised that this was what populist politics was. And the old

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