Time For A Change
Thanks to everyone who has Liked or Followed the Gove Online Facebook page and website over the past couple of years but it is time for a change.
Author: Editor
The Arnhem Club Pours Last Pint
Whatever your preference of watering hole in remote Arnhem Land, The Arnhem Club had something its colder neighbour, the Walkabout Tavern, never had and never will have. Call it heart, soul, warmth or ‘hwyl’ from the Welsh word meaning “a complex and intangible quality of passion and sense of belonging that isn’t easy to translate”.
Northern Territory remote morgues struggling with biohazard risks and high costs
Decomposing bodies are being moved on old planes without being refrigerated in remote areas – causing funeral homes to REJECT them
Rio Tinto NT mine production suspended amid safety concerns
Production at a remote Rio Tinto mine site was temporarily suspended last week after a union investigation raised safety concerns at the operation.
Working towards Local Decision Making for the Yolngu
The Territory Labor Government and Regional Leaders of East Arnhem Land today signed an agreement to work towards more local decision making. The commitment marks a new and better way of working together to properly recognise and support local decision making, service delivery and empowerment in the Yolngu region.
‘World first’: Startup wins NASA deal to launch rockets from Australia
“The location close to the equator is quite unique, it offers a more efficient launch site.” Other benefits to the Arnhem land spaceport, are “really good access to a deepwater port and a city quality airport.”
Arnhem Land fishermen prohibited from selling their barramundi threaten coastal closure
Indigenous traditional owners in remote West Arnhem Land have lost patience with being prohibited from selling valuable barramundi from their coastal waters, while commercial boats do just that.
Yingiya Mark Guyula makes history, addressing NT Parliament in language
For the first time in Northern Territory Parliament history, an interpreter has been permitted on the Chamber floor to translate a sitting member’s speech in their traditional language.
‘Monstrous’: Indigenous rangers’ struggle against the plastic ruining Arnhem Land beaches
The Gulf of Carpentaria is being inundated with some of the highest densities of rubbish in the world
‘Remote communities do not want to see a return to the bad old days of sit-down money’
“I kept hearing that it is time for an Aboriginal person to represent the Aboriginal communities from the Tiwi Islands in the north, down to the Central Desert region, and from Wadeye in the west, to Nhulunbuy and Borroloola and in the east … I couldn’t agree more.”