Podcasts about Northern Territory

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/when-it-all-goes-wrong-call-the-flying-doctors/  This episode is brought to you by Murranji Water Drilling, a family owned and operated team of fully licensed, insured and experienced drillers in the construction, mining and water services. They are licensed to drill and service in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. They ensure all water bores are installed correctly and professionally first time, every time! Quality bores tested and guaranteed! Learn more at murranjiwaterdrilling.com.au or find them on Facebook. This podcast is brought to you by Ariat Australia: the perfect choice for the tough jobs. Ariat boots and clothing work hard, look good and are so comfortable there's never a need to slow down. Visit ariat.com.au today.

Filipinos and Australians in Northern territory was entertained by local musicians while helping typhoon victims in the recently held 'Relief Gig' - Filipino-Australian local musicians sa Northern Territory, nagsanib-pwersa para makatulong sa mga nasalanta ng Bagyong Odette. 

Greg Owens has been involved in the Northern Territory's agricultural scene for more than 30 years.

Indigenous and African migrant communities collide in the Northern Territory, as Sydney-born Brian Obiri-Asare explores what it means to be black in Australia

The Federal Government has promised to change the kinds of projects which get grants from the billion dollar mining royalty fund that Northern Territory traditional owners have built up. Aboriginal community leaders say there hasn't been enough focus on creating indigenous community jobs, and payouts of cash royalties are increasing social problems.

Over the summer we are going to catch up with previous guests and share yarns from their lives in food. She's been on a cattle station in the Northern Territory, and always one for a great yarn, Lauren Murdoch joins us to take us on a ride through the outback.https://www.instagram.com/lammmur/Follow Deep In The Weeds on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/deepintheweedspodcast/?hl=enFollow Huckhttps://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/Follow Rob Locke (Executive Producer)https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTShttps://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork

2021 marked 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in custody which found little appreciation to duty of care for Indigenous people behind bars. And the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the remote Northern Territory this year, causing concern about infections in Indigenous communities.  - Τρεις δεκαετίες μετά από την έρευνα για τους θανάτους Αβορίγινων που βρίσκονται κρατούμενοι σε φυλακές της Αυστραλίας, οι Ιθαγενείς κάτοικοι της χώρας μας εξακολουθούν να αγωνίζονται για δικαιοσύνη. 

SBS Sinhala feature on the latest Covid updates of the Northern Territory, NSW, Victoria, and Western Australia. - වික්ටෝරියා, නිව් සවුත් වේල්ස්, බටහිර ඔස්ට්‍රේලියා සහ Northern Territory ඇතුළු ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාවෙන් වාර්තා වන නවතම කොවිඩ් තතු විත්ති රැගත් දෙසැම්බර් 23 වන දා බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා ප්‍රචාරය වූ SBS සිංහල සේවයේ කාලීන තොරතුරු විශේෂාංගයට සවන්දෙන්න.

This chief executive has spent decades in Australia's Top End – and sees a sustainable future for the territory's property market. Smart Property Investment's Grace Ormsby sits down with Real Estate Institute of the Northern Territory (REINT) CEO Quentin Kilian. While he's about to make a career and scenery change of his own, he sees plenty of opportunities up north for opportune property investors. Quentin will be moving into the CEO role with the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) early this year and shares his perspective of the differences between the property markets across both jurisdictions. He sees the upcoming year as a positive one for the industry and shares some of his expectations here. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and by following Smart Property Investment on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you would like to get in touch with our team, email editor@smartpropertyinvestment.com.au for more insights, or hear your voice on the show by recording a question below.

Rolling lockdowns in heatwave conditions across the Northern Territory has thrown a spotlight on high energy needs of remote communities, where having your power cut off can seriously impact your health. A trial is now underway to test potential long-term solutions with families in the remote town of Tennant Creek making the switch to solar energy.

For bonuses and to support the show, sign up at www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast   This week is our Christmas special here on the train. First, we've covered Krampus, Christmas killings, and ghost story Christmas traditions. Then, in keeping with our tradition of crazy Christmas episodes, today, we bring you some crazy Christmas disasters! Christmas isn't immune to crazy shit going on, from natural disasters to fires. Not only that, we're giving you guys a pretty good dose of history today. So with that being said, let's get into some crazy Christmas stuff!   While this first topic isn't necessarily a disaster in the usual sense, it definitely caused nothing but problems. And yes, it's a disaster. In 1865 on Christmas Eve, something happened that would change things for many people in this country and still causes grief to this day. While most people in the u.s. were settling down for the night with their families, leaving milk out for Santa, and tucking the kids in for the night, a group of men in Pulaski, Tennessee, were getting together for a very different purpose. Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones, and James Crowe were all officers with the Confederacy in the civil war. That night, they got together to form a group inspired at least in part by the then largely defunct Sons of Malta. While it started as a social club, within months, it would turn into one of the most nefarious groups around, the Ku Klux Klan. According to The Cyclopædia of Fraternities (1907), "Beginning in April, 1867, there was a gradual transformation. ...The members had conjured up a veritable Frankenstein. They had played with an engine of power and mystery, though organized on entirely innocent lines, and found themselves overcome by a belief that something must lie behind it all – that there was, after all, a serious purpose, a work for the Klan to do." It borrowed parts of the initiation ceremony from the sons of Malta with the same purpose: "ludicrous initiations, the baffling of public curiosity, and the amusement for members were the only objects of the Klan," according to Albert Stevens in 1907. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention. They established what they called an "Invisible Empire of the South." Leading Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest was chosen as the first leader, or "grand wizard," of the Klan; he presided over a hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans, and grand cyclops. The organization of the Ku Klux Klan coincided with the beginning of the second phase of post-Civil War Reconstruction, put into place by the more radical members of the Republican Party in Congress. After rejecting President Andrew Johnson's relatively lenient Reconstruction policies from 1865 to 1866, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act over the presidential veto. Under its provisions, the South was divided into five military districts. Each state was required to approve the 14th Amendment, which granted "equal protection" of the Constitution to formerly enslaved people and enacted universal male suffrage. From 1867 onward, Black participation in public life in the South became one of the most radical aspects of Reconstruction. Black people won elections to southern state governments and even the U.S. Congress. For its part, the Ku Klux Klan dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters (both Black and white) to reverse the policies of Radical Reconstruction and restore white supremacy in the South. They were joined in this struggle by similar organizations such as the Knights of the White Camelia (launched in Louisiana in 1867) and the White Brotherhood. At least 10 percent of the Black legislators elected during the 1867-1868 constitutional conventions became victims of violence during Reconstruction, including seven who were killed. White Republicans (derided as "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags") and Black institutions such as schools and churches—symbols of Black autonomy—were also targets for Klan attacks. By 1870, the Ku Klux Klan had branches in nearly every southern state. The Klan did not boast a well-organized structure or clear leadership even at its height. Local Klan members, often wearing masks and dressed in the organization's signature long white robes and hoods, usually carried out their attacks at night. They acted on their own but supported the common goals of defeating Radical Reconstruction and restoring white supremacy in the South. Klan activity flourished particularly in the regions of the South where Black people were a minority or a slight majority of the population and were relatively limited in others. Among the most notorious zones of Klan activity was South Carolina, where in January 1871, 500 masked men attacked the Union county jail and lynched eight Black prisoners. Though Democratic leaders would later attribute Ku Klux Klan violence to poorer southern white people, the organization's membership crossed class lines, from small farmers and laborers to planters, lawyers, merchants, physicians, and ministers. In the regions where most Klan activity took place, local law enforcement officials either belonged to the Klan or declined to act against it. Even those who arrested Klansmen found it difficult to find witnesses willing to testify against them.    Other leading white citizens in the South declined to speak out against the group's actions, giving them implicit approval. After 1870, Republican state governments in the South turned to Congress for help, resulting in three Enforcement Acts, the strongest of which was the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.   For the first time, the Ku Klux Klan Act designated certain crimes committed by individuals as federal offenses, including conspiracies to deprive citizens of the right to hold office, serve on juries and enjoy the equal protection of the law. In addition, the act authorized the president to suspend the habeas corpus, arrest accused individuals without charge, and send federal forces to suppress Klan violence. For those of us dummies that may not know, a "writ of habeas corpus" (which literally means to "produce the body") is a court order demanding that a public official (such as a warden) deliver an imprisoned individual to the court and show a valid reason for that person's detention. The procedure provides a means for prison inmates or others acting on their behalf to dispute the legal basis for confinement.   This expansion of federal authority–which Ulysses S. Grant promptly used in 1871 to crush Klan activity in South Carolina and other areas of the South–outraged Democrats and even alarmed many Republicans. From the early 1870s onward, white supremacy gradually reasserted its hold on the South as support for Reconstruction waned; by the end of 1876, the entire South was under Democratic control once again.   Now, this was just the first version of the Klan. A second version started up in the early 1900s and later on another revival which is the current iteration of the Klan. We're not going to go into the later versions of the Klan because well…. Fuck 'em! We've already given them too much air time! But… This most definitely qualifies as a Christmas disaster.   Next up, we have a couple natural disasters.    First up, Cyclone Tracy. Cyclone Tracy has been described as the most significant tropical cyclone in Australia's history, and it changed how we viewed the threat of tropical cyclones to northern Australia.   Five days before Christmas 1974, satellite images showed a tropical depression in the Arafura Sea, 700 kilometers (or almost 435 miles for us Americans) northeast of Darwin.   The following day the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Darwin warned that a cyclone had formed and gave it the name Tracy. Cyclone Tracy was moving southwest at this stage, but as it passed the northwest of Bathurst Island on December 23, it slowed down and changed course.   That night, it rounded Cape Fourcroy and began moving southeast, with Darwin directly in its path.   The first warning that Darwin was under threat came at 12:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve when a top-priority flash cyclone warning was issued advising people that Cyclone Tracy was expected to make landfall early Christmas morning.   Despite 12 hours' warning of the cyclone's impending arrival, it fell mainly on deaf ears.   Residents were complacent after a near-miss from Cyclone Selma a few weeks before and distracted by the festive season.   Indeed in the preceding decade, the Bureau of Meteorology had identified 25 cyclones in Northern Territory waters, but few had caused much damage. Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy was a small but intense system at landfall.   The radius of the galeforce winds extended only 50 kilometers from the eye of the cyclone, making it one of the most miniature tropical cyclones on record, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).   Records show that at least six tropical cyclones had severely impacted Darwin before Tracy.   The worst of these was in January 1897 when a "disastrous hurricane" nearly destroyed the settlement, and 28 people died.   However, unlike Tracy, it is thought this cyclone did not directly pass over Darwin.   And while Tracy was reported as a category four cyclone, some meteorologists today believe it may have been a category five shortly before it made landfall.   At midnight on Christmas Day, wind gusts greater than 100 kilometers or over 62 miles per hour began to be recorded.   The cyclone's center reached East Point at 3:15 a.m. and landed just north of Fannie Bay at 3:30 a.m.   Tracy was so strong it bent a railway signal tower in half.    The city was devastated by the cyclone. At least 90 percent of homes in Darwin were demolished or badly damaged. Forty-five vessels in the harbor were wrecked or damaged.   In addition to the 65 people who died, 145 were admitted to the hospital with serious injuries.   Vegetation was damaged up to 80 kilometers away from the coast, and Darwin felt eerily quiet due to the lack of insect and birdlife.   Within a week after the cyclone hit, more than 30,000 Darwin residents had been evacuated by air or road. That's more than two-thirds of the population at that time.   Cyclone Tracy remains one of Australia's most significant disasters.   As Murphy wrote 10 years after the cyclone: "The impact of Cyclone Tracy has reached far beyond the limits of Darwin itself. All along the tropical coasts of northern Australia and beyond a new cyclone awareness has emerged."   Merry fucking Christmas! Damn, that sucks. The information in this section came from an article on abc.net.au   Next up, we are going way back. The Christmas Flood of 1717 resulted from a northwesterly storm, which hit the coastal area of the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia on Christmas night of 1717. During the night of Christmas, 1717, the coastal regions of the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia were hit by a severe north-western storm. It is estimated that 14,000 people died. It was the worst flood for four centuries and the last significant flood to hit the north of the Netherlands.   In the countryside to the north of the Netherlands, the water level rose up to a few meters. The city of Groningen rose up to a few feet. In the province of Groningen, villages that were situated directly behind the dikes were nearly swept away. Action had to be taken against looters who robbed houses and farms under the fraudulent act of rescuing the flood victims. In total, the flood caused 2,276 casualties in Groningen. 1,455 homes were either destroyed or suffered extensive damage. Most livestock was lost.   The water also poured into Amsterdam and Haarlem and the areas around Dokkum and Stavoren. Over 150 people died in Friesland alone. In addition, large sections of Northern Holland were left underwater and the area around Zwolle and Kampen. In these areas, the flood only caused material damage. In Vlieland, however, the sea poured over the dunes, almost entirely sweeping away the already-damaged village of West-Vlieland.   We also found this report from a German website. It's been translated, so our apologies if it's wonky.    "According to tradition, several days before Christmas, it had blown strong and sustained from the southwest. Shortly after sunset on Christmas Eve, the wind suddenly turned from west to northwest and eased a little. The majority of the residents went to bed unconcerned, because currently was half moon and the next regular flood would not occur until 7 a.m. At the time when the tide was supposed to have been low for a long time, however, a drop in the water level could not be determined. Allegedly between 1 and 2 a.m. the storm began to revive violently accompanied by lightning and thunder. Between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning the water reached the top of the dike. The current and waves caused the dike caps to break, so that the tide rolled over the dike into the flat land with a loud roar of thunder. Many only had time to save themselves in the dark on the floor under the roof. Most of the time there was not even time to take clothes, drinking water and some food with you. Numerous houses could not withstand the rising water and the current. In the higher and higher water and the increasing current, windows were Doors and entire walls dented. Allegedly the hurricane and the storm surge raged against the coast for three full days, so that it was not until December 28 that the water fell so far that one could come to the aid of one's neighbors with simply built "boats." In many places, the dykes had been razed to the ground, which meant that in lower-lying areas, every regular flood caused renewed flooding. At the places where the dykes were broken, deep valleys, some of which were large, formed. In many places where the dike is led around in a semi-arch, these walls, also known as pools or bracken, are still visible and testify to the force of the water. At that time, many people are said to have believed that the march was forever lost. In the low-lying areas, the water was later covered with ice floes, sometimes held up for months. Up until the summer months, bodies were said to have been found repeatedly during the clean-up work on the alluvial piles of straw and in the trenches. Many people who survived the flood later fell victim to so-called marching fever. New storm surges in the following years ruined the efforts for the first time to get the dike back into a defensible condition, and many houses, which were initially only damaged, have now been completely destroyed. Numerous small owners left the country so that the Hanover government even issued a ban on emigration."   Looks like the Netherlands got a proper Christmas fucking as well! Some towns were so severely destroyed that nothing was left, and they simply ceased to exist. Damn.    Cyclones and floods… What else does mother nature have for us? Well, how's about an earthquake! On Friday, December 26, 2003, at 5:26 a.m., Bam city in Southeastern Iran was jolted by an earthquake registering a 6.5 magnitude on the Richter scale. This was the result of the strike-slip motion of the Bam fault, which runs through this area. The earthquake's epicenter was determined to be approximately six miles southwest of the city. Three more significant aftershocks and many smaller aftershocks were also recorded, the last of which occurred over a month after the main earthquake. To date, official death tolls have 26,271 fatalities, 9000 injured, and 525 still missing. The city of Bam is one of Iran's most ancient cities, dating back to 224A.D. Latest reports and damage estimates are approaching the area of $1.9 billion. A United Nations report estimated that about 90% of the city's buildings were 60%-100% damaged, while the remaining buildings were between 30%-60% damaged. The crazy part about the whole thing… The quake only lasted for about 8 seconds.   Now I know what you're thinking… That's not Christmas… Well, there spanky, the night of the 25th, Christmas, people started to feel minor tremors that would preface the quake, so fuck you, it counts.   We have one more natural disaster for you guys, and this one most of you guys probably remember. And this one was another that started last Christmas night and rolled into the 26th, also known as boxing day. So we're talking about the Boxing Day Tsunami and the Indian ocean earthquake in 2004.    A 9.1-magnitude earthquake—one of the largest ever recorded—ripped through an undersea fault in the Indian Ocean, propelling a massive column of water toward unsuspecting shores. The Boxing Day tsunami would be the deadliest in recorded history, taking a staggering 230,000 lives in a matter of hours.   The city of Banda Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra was closest to the powerful earthquake's epicenter, and the first waves arrived in just 20 minutes. It's nearly impossible to imagine the 100-foot roiling mountain of water that engulfed the coastal city of 320,000, instantly killing more than 100,000 men, women, and children. Buildings folded like houses of cards, trees, and cars were swept up in the oil-black rapids, and virtually no one caught in the deluge survived.   Thailand was next. With waves traveling 500 mph across the Indian Ocean, the tsunami hit the coastal provinces of Phang Nga and Phuket an hour and a half later. Despite the time-lapse, locals and tourists were utterly unaware of the imminent destruction. Curious beachgoers even wandered out among the oddly receding waves, only to be chased down by a churning wall of water. The death toll in Thailand was nearly 5,400, including 2,000 foreign tourists.   An hour later, on the opposite side of the Indian Ocean, the waves struck the southeastern coast of India near the city of Chennai, pushing debris-choked water kilometers inland and killing more than 10,000 people, primarily women and children, since many of the men were out fishing. But some of the worst devastations were reserved for the island nation of Sri Lanka, where more than 30,000 people were swept away by the waves and hundreds of thousands left homeless.   As proof of the record-breaking strength of the tsunami, the last victims of the Boxing Day disaster perished nearly eight hours later when swelling seas and rogue waves caught swimmers by surprise in South Africa, 5,000 miles from the quake's epicenter.   Vasily Titov is a tsunami researcher and forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Tsunami Research. He credits the unsparing destructiveness of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the raw power of the earthquake that spawned it. The quake originated in a so-called megathrust fault, where heavy oceanic plates subduct beneath lighter continental plates.    "They are the largest faults in the world and they're all underwater," says Titov.   The 2004 quake ruptured a 900-mile stretch along the Indian and Australian plates 31 miles below the ocean floor. Rather than delivering one violent jolt, the earthquake lasted an unrelenting 10 minutes, releasing as much pent-up power as several thousand atomic bombs.   In the process, massive segments of the ocean floor were forced an estimated 30 or 40 meters (up to 130 feet) upward. The effect was like dropping the world's most giant pebble in the Indian Ocean with ripples the size of mountains extending out in all directions.   Titov emphasizes that tsunamis look nothing like the giant surfing break-style waves that many imagine.   "It's a wave, but from the observer's standpoint, you wouldn't recognize it as a wave," Titov says. "It's more like the ocean turns into a white water river and floods everything in its path."   Once caught in the raging waters, the debris will finish the job if the currents don't pull you under.   "In earthquakes, a certain number of people die but many more are injured. It's completely reversed with tsunamis," says Titov. "Almost no injuries, because it's such a difficult disaster to survive."   Holy fuck… That's insane!   Well, there are some crazy natural disasters gifted to us by mother nature. So now let's take a look at some man-made disasters… And there are some bad ones.    First up is the 1953 train wreck on Christmas Eve in New Zealand. So this is actually a mix of mother nature fucking people and a man-made structure failing. This event is also referred to as the Tangiwai disaster. The weather on Christmas Eve was fine, and with little recent rain, no one suspected flooding in the Whangaehu River. The river appeared normal when a goods train crossed the bridge around 7 p.m. What transformed the situation was the sudden release of approximately 2 million cubic meters of water from the crater lake of nearby Mt Ruapehu. A 6-meter-high wave containing water, ice, mud, and rocks surged, tsunami-like, down the Whangaehu River. Sometime between 10.10 and 10.15 p.m., this lahar struck the concrete pylons of the Tangiwai railway bridge.   Traveling at approximately 65 km per hour, locomotive Ka 949 and its train of nine carriages and two vans reached the severely weakened bridge at 10.21 p.m. As the bridge buckled beneath its weight, the engine plunged into the river, taking all five second-class carriages with it. The torrent force destroyed four of these carriages – those inside had little chance of survival.   The leading first-class carriage, Car Z, teetered on the edge of the ruined bridge for a few minutes before breaking free from the remaining three carriages and toppling into the river. It rolled downstream before coming to rest on a bank as the water level fell. Remarkably, 21 of the 22 passengers in this carriage survived. Evidence suggested that the locomotive driver, Charles Parker, had applied the emergency brakes some 200 m from the bridge, which prevented the last three carriages from ending up in the river and saved many lives. Even still, 151 of the 285 passengers and crew died that night in the crash.   This information was taken from nzhistory.gov.    Next up is the Italian Hall disaster.    Before it was called Calumet, the area was known as Red Jacket. And for many, it seemed to be ground zero for the sprawling copper mining operations that absorbed wave after wave of immigrants into the Upper Peninsula.   Red Jacket itself was a company town for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, a large firm that in the 1870s was known as the world's largest copper producer. For a time, C&H had the world's deepest copper mines.   But the company wasn't immune from the organized labor push that swept across the Keweenaw Peninsula and other parts of the U.P. in 1913. Miners in Montana and Colorado had unionized, and in July of that year, the Western Federation of Miners called a strike against all Copper Country mines. According to a mining journal published that year, they were pushing for a $3 daily wage, 8-hour days, safer working conditions, and representation.   "The strike took place in a very complicated time in American history," said Jo Holt, a historian with the National Park Service's Keweenaw National Historical Park. "We had all these different things coming together. An increasingly industrialized country was grappling with worker's rights, gender issues, and immigration. We were moving from a gilded age into a progressive era, and recognizing the voice of labor.   "We see this event happen in the midst of that struggle."   "The reason it resonates today is we are still having these conversations. How do we create a just economy that functions for everybody? ... We are still, almost hundred and 10 years later, in the midst of these conversations."   As the strike wore into fall and the holiday season, a women's auxiliary group to the WFM organized a Christmas Eve party for the miners' families at the Italian Benevolent Society building, better known as the Italian Hall.   It was a big, boisterous affair, researchers have said. The multi-story hall was packed, with more than 600 people inside at one point. Children were watching a play and receiving gifts. Organizers later said the crowd was so large that it was hard to track who was coming in the door.   When the false cry of "Fire!" went up, pandemonium reached the sole stairway leading down to the street.   "What happened is when people panicked, they tried to get out through the stairwell," Holt said. "Someone tripped or people started to fall, and that's what created the bottleneck. It was just people falling on top of each other."   The aftermath was horrifying. As the dead were pulled from the pile in the stairwell, the bodies were carried to the town hall, which turned into a makeshift morgue. Some families lost more than one child. Other children were orphaned when their parents died.   One black and white photo in the Michigan Technological University Archives shows rows of what looks like sleeping children lying side-by-side. Their eyes are closed. Their faces were unmarred. The caption reads: "Christmas Eve in the Morgue."   After the dead were buried, some families moved away. Others stayed and kept supporting the strike, which ended the following spring.   Rumors emerged later that the Italian Hall's doors were designed to open inward, preventing the panicked crowd from pushing them outward to the street. Those were debunked, along with the suggestion in Woody Guthrie's "1913 Massacre" song that mining company thugs were holding the doors shut from the outside that night.   Damn… Mostly kids. On Christmas. That's a tough one.   Here's another touchy one. A race riot erupted in Mayfield, Kentucky, just before Christmas 1896. Although slavery in the U.S. ended after the Civil War, the Reconstruction period and beyond was a dangerous time to be black. Things were awful for non-whites in the former Confederacy, amongst which Kentucky was especially bad for racial violence. In December 1896, white vigilantes lynched two black men within 24 hours of each other between the 21st and 22nd, one for a minor disagreement with a white man and the other, Jim Stone, for alleged rape. A note attached to Stone's swinging corpse warned black residents to get out of town.   In response to this unambiguous threat, the local African-American population armed themselves. Rumors spread amongst the town's white people that 250 men were marching on the city, and a state of emergency was called. The whites mobilized, black stores were vandalized, and fighting broke out between the two sides on December 23. In the event, three people were killed, including Will Suet, a black teenager who had just got off the train to spend Christmas with his family. It was all over on Christmas Eve, and a few days later, an uneasy truce between the races was called.   Ugh! Y'all know what time it is? That's right, it's time for some quick hitters.   Many of us enjoy the Christmas period by going to the theatre or watching a movie. In December 1903, Chicago residents were eager to do just that at the brand-new Iroquois Theatre, which had been officially opened only in October that year. 1700 people in all crammed themselves in to see the zany, family-friendly musical comedy, Mr. Bluebeard. But just as the wait was over and the show started, a single spark from a stage light lit the surrounding drapery. The show's star, Eddie Foy, tried to keep things together as Iroquois employees struggled to put the curtains out in vain.   However, even the spectacle of a Windy City-native in drag couldn't stop the terrified crowd stampeding for the few exits. These, preposterously, were concealed by curtains and utterly inadequate in number. When the actors opened their own exit door to escape, a gust of wind sent a fireball through the crowded theatre, meaning that hundreds died before the fire service was even called. 585 people died, either suffocated, burned alive, or crushed. The scene was described in a 1904 account as "worse than that pictured in the mind of Dante in his vision of the inferno". Next up, the politics behind this ghastly event are pretty complicated – one Mexican lecturer described the massacre as "the most complicated case in Mexico" – but here's an inadequate summary. The small and impoverished village of Acteal, Mexico, was home to Las Abejas (the bees'), a religious collective that sympathized with a rebel group opposing the Mexican government. Thus, on December 22, 1997, members of the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party crept down the steep hill slopes above the village. They chose their moment to attack carefully as people gathered at a prayer meeting when they finally slunk into Acteal.   Over the next few hours, assassins armed with guns executed 45 innocent people in cold blood. Amongst the dead were 21 women, some of whom were pregnant, and 15 children. Worst of all, investigations into this cowardly act seem to implicate the government itself. Soldiers garrisoned nearby did not intervene, despite being within earshot of the gunfire and horrified screams. In addition, there was evidence of the crime scene being tampered with by local police and government officials. Though some people have been convicted, there are suspicions that they were framed and that the real culprits remain at large.   -Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring… except the Soviet Union. The Marxist-Leninist Khalq and Parcham parties had ousted the Afghan president in April 1978. Still, communism was so unpopular in Afghanistan that the mujahideen succeeded in toppling them just over a year later. So Khalq and Parcham turned to the Soviet Union for help, and on Christmas Eve that year, they obliged by sending 30,000 troops across the border into Afghanistan by the cover of darkness. Bloody fighting ensued, and soon the Soviet Union had control of the major cities.   The Soviets stayed for nine years, at which time the mujahideen, backed by foreign support and weapons, waged a brutal guerrilla campaign against the invaders. In turn, captured mujahideen were executed, and entire villages and agricultural areas were razed to the ground. When the Soviets finally withdrew in February 1989, over 1 million civilians and almost 125,000 soldiers from both sides were killed. From the turmoil after the Afghan-Soviet War emerged, the Taliban, installed by neighboring Pakistan, and with them Osama bin Laden. This indeed was a black Christmas for the world.   -How about another race riot… No? Well, here you go anyway. Although, this one may be more fucked up. The Agana Race Riot saw black and white US Marines fight it out from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day, 1944. Guam was host to both black and white US Marines in 1944. But instead of fighting the enemy, the white troops elected to turn on the all-black Marine 25th Depot Company. First, the white Marines would stop their fellow soldiers from entering Agana, pelt them with rocks, and shout racist obscenities at them. Then, on Christmas Eve 1944, 9 members of the 25th on official leave were seen talking to local women, and white Marines opened fire on them. Then, on Christmas Day, 2 black soldiers were shot dead by drunken white Marines in separate incidents.   Guam's white Marines were decidedly short on festive cheer and goodwill to all men. Not content with these murders, a white mob attacked an African-American depot on Boxing Day, and a white soldier sustained an injury when the 25th returned fire. Sick of their treatment by their fellow soldiers, 40 black Marines gave chase to the retreating mob in a jeep, but further violence was prevented by a roadblock. Can you guess what happened next? Yep, the black soldiers were charged with unlawful assembly, rioting, and attempted murder, while the white soldiers were left to nurse their aching heads.   One more major one for you guys, and then we'll leave on a kind of happier note. This one's kind of rough. Be warned.    In late December 2008 and into January 2009, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) brutally killed more than 865 civilians and abducted at least 160 children in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). LRA combatants hacked their victims to death with machetes or axes or crushed their skulls with clubs and heavy sticks. In some of the places where they attacked, few were left alive.   The worst attacks happened 48 hours over Christmas in locations some 160 miles apart in the Daruma, Duru, and Faradje areas of the Haut-Uele district of northern Congo. The LRA waited until the time of Christmas festivities on December 24 and 25 to carry out their devastating attacks, apparently choosing a moment when they would find the maximum number of people altogether. The killings occurred in the Congo and parts of southern Sudan, where similar weapons and tactics were used.   The Christmas massacres in Congo are part of a longstanding practice of horrific atrocities and abuse by the LRA. Before shifting its operations to the Congo in 2006, the LRA was based in Uganda and southern Sudan, where LRA combatants also killed, raped, and abducted thousands of civilians. When the LRA moved to Congo, its combatants initially refrained from targeting Congolese people. Still, in September 2008, the LRA began its first wave of attacks, apparently to punish local communities who had helped LRA defectors to escape. The first wave of attacks in September, together with the Christmas massacres, has led to the deaths of over 1,033 civilians and the abduction of at least 476 children.   LRA killings have not stopped since the Christmas massacres. Human Rights Watch receives regular reports of murders and abductions by the LRA, keeping civilians living in terror. According to the United Nations, over 140,000 people have fled their homes since late December 2008 to seek safety elsewhere. New attacks and the flight of civilians are reported weekly. People are frightened to gather together in some areas, believing that the LRA may choose these moments to strike, as they did with such devastating efficiency over Christmas.   Even by LRA standards, the Christmas massacres in the Congo were ruthless. LRA combatants struck quickly and quietly, surrounding their victims as they ate their Christmas meal in Batande village or gathered for a Christmas day concert in Faradje. In Mabando village, the LRA sought to maximize the death toll by luring their victims to a central place, playing the radio, and forcing their victims to sing songs and call for others to come to join the party. In most attacks, they tied up their victims, stripped them of their clothes, raped the women and girls, and then killed their victims by crushing their skulls. In two cases, the attackers tried to kill three-year-old toddlers by twisting off their heads. The few villagers who survived often did so because their assailants thought they were dead.   Yeah...so there's that. We could go much deeper into this incident, but we think you get the point.    We'll leave you with a story that is pretty bizarre when you stop and think about it. But we'll leave you with this story of an unlikely Christmas get-together. This is the story of the Christmas truce.    British machine gunner Bruce Bairnsfather, later a prominent cartoonist, wrote about it in his memoirs. Like most of his fellow infantrymen of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he was spending the holiday eve shivering in the muck, trying to keep warm. He had spent a good part of the past few months fighting the Germans. And now, in a part of Belgium called Bois de Ploegsteert, he was crouched in a trench that stretched just three feet deep by three feet wide, his days and nights marked by an endless cycle of sleeplessness and fear, stale biscuits and cigarettes too wet to light.   "Here I was, in this horrible clay cavity," Bairnsfather wrote, "…miles and miles from home. Cold, wet through and covered with mud." There didn't "seem the slightest chance of leaving—except in an ambulance."   At about 10 p.m., Bairnsfather noticed a noise. "I listened," he recalled. "Away across the field, among the dark shadows beyond, I could hear the murmur of voices." He turned to a fellow soldier in his trench and said, "Do you hear the Boches [Germans] kicking up that racket over there?"   Yes," came the reply. "They've been at it some time!"   The Germans were singing carols, as it was Christmas Eve. In the darkness, some of the British soldiers began to sing back. "Suddenly," Bairnsfather recalled, "we heard a confused shouting from the other side. We all stopped to listen. The shout came again." The voice was from an enemy soldier, speaking in English with a strong German accent. He was saying, "Come over here."   One of the British sergeants answered: "You come half-way. I come half-way."   In the years to come, what happened next would stun the world and make history. Enemy soldiers began to climb nervously out of their trenches and meet in the barbed-wire-filled "No Man's Land" that separated the armies. Typically, the British and Germans communicated across No Man's Land with streaking bullets, with only occasional gentlemanly allowances to collect the dead unmolested. But now, there were handshakes and words of kindness. The soldiers traded songs, tobacco, and wine, joining in a spontaneous holiday party in the cold night. Bairnsfather could not believe his eyes. "Here they were—the actual, practical soldiers of the German army. There was not an atom of hate on either side."   And it wasn't confined to that one battlefield. Starting on Christmas Eve, small pockets of French, German, Belgian, and British troops held impromptu cease-fires across the Western Front, with reports of some on the Eastern Front as well. Some accounts suggest a few of these unofficial truces remained in effect for days.   Descriptions of the Christmas Truce appear in numerous diaries and letters of the time. One British soldier, a rifleman, named J. Reading, wrote a letter home to his wife describing his holiday experience in 1914: "My company happened to be in the firing line on Christmas eve, and it was my turn…to go into a ruined house and remain there until 6:30 on Christmas morning. During the early part of the morning the Germans started singing and shouting, all in good English. They shouted out: 'Are you the Rifle Brigade; have you a spare bottle; if so we will come halfway and you come the other half.'"   "Later on in the day they came towards us," Reading described. "And our chaps went out to meet them…I shook hands with some of them, and they gave us cigarettes and cigars. We did not fire that day, and everything was so quiet it seemed like a dream."   Another British soldier, named John Ferguson, recalled it this way: "Here we were laughing and chatting to men whom only a few hours before we were trying to kill!"   Other diaries and letters describe German soldiers using candles to light Christmas trees around their trenches. One German infantryman described how a British soldier set up a makeshift barbershop, charging Germans a few cigarettes each for a haircut. Other accounts describe vivid scenes of men helping enemy soldiers collect their dead, of which there was plenty.   One British fighter named Ernie Williams later described in an interview his recollection of some makeshift soccer play on what turned out to be an icy pitch: "The ball appeared from somewhere, I don't know where... They made up some goals and one fellow went in goal and then it was just a general kick-about. I should think there were about a couple of hundred taking part."   German Lieutenant Kurt Zehmisch of the 134 Saxons Infantry, a schoolteacher who spoke both English and German, described a pick-up soccer game in his diary, which was discovered in an attic near Leipzig in 1999, written in an archaic German form of shorthand. "Eventually the English brought a soccer ball from their trenches, and pretty soon, a lively game ensued," he wrote. "How marvelously wonderful, yet how strange it was. The English officers felt the same way about it. Thus Christmas, the celebration of Love, managed to bring mortal enemies together as friends for a time."   So much more can be said about this event, but that seems like an excellent place to leave off this Christmas episode! And yes, when you really do stop and think about it… That's a pretty crazy yet fantastic thing.   Greatest disaster movies of all time   https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-disaster-movies-of-all-time

Despite the 2017 Don Dale Royal Commission recommending the youth detention facility be closed, there'll be 35 Indigenous children locked up there over the festive season, with 15 more in the overcrowded Alice Springs Watchhouse. John Lawrence, a Darwin barrister and youth justice advocate, says Australia's record on incarcerating Indigenous children is 'shameful and embarrassing'.

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Smaller or lesser known destinations have achieved some pretty amazing things for events. Can Australia's Northern Territory surprise and wow event planners who've seen it all? It certainly wowed the Australian Event Awards & Symposium for Parrtijima – A Festival in Light, which awarded Northern Territory Major Events Company (NTMEC) the Best Regional Event this year.Tim Watsford is the CEO of NTMEC, joining the business events tourism industry from a cricket and rugby background.  Over the past 18 months, Tim has led the NTMEC team in new directions as they navigate an events sector profoundly affected by COVID-19 restrictions. The result has seen the team successfully deliver several large-scale major events in the Territory that have attracted national and international attention, and record attendance numbers.Quotes from Episode:"If you haven't been to the Territory, you'll never experience what we have to offer... Everything from chasing the elusive barramundi all the way to the river systems in the Top End . Kakadu National Park has to be seen to be believed.""We've got a very starved industry that wants to get back in and get in big. I'll be quite honest, there are some challenges for us coming into next year. We hope we've proven what the territory can offer." "The two lessons I've learned as a CEO  or leader is, one, people are your most important asset... I've learned that in droves and two, back yourself."  -Tim WatsfordDon't miss:-How moving from the big city life to the Northern Territory was transformational -There's more to discover in Australia's Top End than crocodiles.-Why events in the NT thrived during the pandemic.-Leadership lessons managing a transient staff.Tim's resource recommendation:Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek (and anything by Simon Sinek).Connect with Tim:LinkedIn: Tim WatsfordConnect with Adelaine / Sign up for her newsletter:Email: uponarrivalpodcast@gmail.com

A leading artist from Darwin, Northern Territory. The musician demonstrated her talent as a graphic designer when she won Best Cover Art at the ARIA Awards 2018.  - ノーザンテリトリーのダーウィンを代表するアーティストです。ARIAのベストカバーアート賞の受賞で証明されたように音楽以外の分野でも豊かな才能を見せるアーティストです。

Our first guest from the centre of Australia is joining us on this weeks podcast. Dave Goodes lives in Alice Spring and holds the mantle as one of the leaders in the turbine jet scene in the Northern Territory. A career Air Traffic Controller, Dave has moved around for his job but model planes have always followed him. We discuss the flying scene in Alice Springs and his ever expanding hangar of turbine jets. A committed aviator Dave is a great guy that enjoys helping others in their turbine jet journey.

Matt Wood started managing Blina Station in the West Kimberley at the ripe old age of 23. In the past 13 years he has met his wife, become a father, and grown as a manager, friend, and member of the Kimberley community. Matt and Connie recently said a fond farewell to Blina Station, where they have called home for the past 13 and 9 years, respectively, as they make the move to manage the historic Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. In this episode, Matt and Connie reflect on their time at Blina – the good, the bad, and the bloody funny. This episode is brought to you by Murranji Water Drilling, a family owned and operated team of fully licensed, insured and experienced drillers in the construction, mining and water services. They are licensed to drill and service in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. They ensure all water bores are installed correctly and professionally first time, every time! Quality bores tested and guaranteed! Learn more at murranjiwaterdrilling.com.au or find them on Facebook. This podcast is brought to you by Ariat Australia: the perfect choice for the tough jobs. Ariat boots and clothing work hard, look good and are so comfortable there's never a need to slow down. Visit ariat.com.au today.

Gurindji man and ABC presenter Charlie knew a little about his mum's life story as he grew up. But after she died, he began to reckon with what she had lived through as a child (CW: contains mention of ATSI people who have died; mentions of sexual violence) (R)

Although she's only 25, Lucy Bartholomew has been competing in ultras for a decade.  She ran her first, the Surf Coast Century 100k, alongside her father, and the successes kept coming. In 2017 she raced in fifteen ultras and was the first place female in eight of them.  The following year she ran her first 100 mile race, Western States, and finished third in the women's race.  All of those medals came at a cost, however, and for a time she lost her love of running.  Today she talks about how she regained her joy in the sport and now appreciates it more fully than she ever did before. “People asked what happened when the numbers went up, but when the numbers were so low that I was clearly unwell, no one asked any questions. In fact I was put on a pedestal.” Lucy participated in a project at a heart institute in 2018, the year she triumphed at Western States.  Her numbers were incredibly low - body fat under 12% and a heart rate so slow that it didn't register on the lab's equipment. The doctors were amazed and impressed; it was “like a hall of fame moment,” she recalls. But those levels were impossible to maintain, and when she went back a year later, the numbers were all higher.  She was stronger and healthier, but the reaction was, “oh, you're out of that elite athlete percentile and you're like, normal, God forbid.” “ I remember sitting there,” she says, “and just being like, my photo's just gone off the wall of fame, and I'm now this normal human, which is just not good enough for their standards.” “Overnight I gained 50,000 followers on Instagram.  So 50,000 people started following me and they started following a version of Lucy that was not sustainable.” After Lucy crossed the Western States' finish line in 2018, she suddenly had tens of thousands of new followers, who only knew her at her thinnest.  When she gained weight after the race, people's comments made her start to question herself. “It just puts a grain of sand into your mind, just kind of like, am I doing everything wrong?”  By the end of 2019, that grain of sand had become a sandcastle. “I think that I had lost the race of Western States before I had even begun.” Running Western States in 2018 had been a joyful experience. She remembers an article that was written about her, saying how super-stoked she was. “And I was,” she says, “I was just like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm in this position. I didn't come here to lead the race. I'm in front of Courtney freaking Dauwalter, like what is going on?”  When she ran it again the next year, everything had changed.  She was in the worst headspace of her life, and says, ”if I have one regret in my running career - I don't use the word regret - but I disrespected that race. I ran it, but I didn't love it. I despised the fact that I was out there. I endured it, which the previous year, I enjoyed it, not endured.” She hadn't looked at her watch for the first nine hours of the 2018 race  because she was loving it so much.  But in 2019, she says, “I looked at my watch for the first time probably a mile in and went, ‘is that all we've done?'”   “I don't love this anymore, and I've always said that I would stop the moment that I outrun my love for running.” In retrospect, she knew that she should have rested after the 2018 Western States, but she kept racing.  “Then the Christmas season I chilled out a little bit,” she says, “had my three days off for the year, God forbid.”  She resumed her schedule of back-to-back ultras in the new year.  Thinking about her racing calendar, she says, “I'm like, you are an absolute goose, Lucy. Who do you think you are, standing on all those start lines and doing that to your body?” “I learned from Western States that I won't stand on the start line if my head and heart aren't in it.”  Lucy had raced the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) seven times and loved it, but when she arrived in Chamonix in 2019, she says, “I was like, I really just want to sit at a cafe and chill out, and sit in the river and do something else.  I just want to get the chairlift up. Like, do we have to run?” “To be a great runner, you have to have the ability to run but then also to be able to cheer on others.” She dropped out of the UTMB, but instead of sulking because “this was just turning into the absolute crumble of the year,” she decided to support the people who were racing.  She explains that when she was younger and would spectate as her dad raced, “I started to realize that you can be on the sideline and you can just be miserable about the fact that you're not in the race or you can be on the sideline and you can make people's day.”  She left Chamonix feeling proud that she'd respected herself enough to pull out of the race, and happy that “I was able to still be a part of the sport that I love, because whilst I wasn't loving the act of running, I love the philosophy and the community of running, and that's more important to me than any race ever.” “It was just the most beautiful experience that put me in a position where it was kind of like, this is what matters.” The lockdowns in Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic gave Lucy an opportunity to reset.  After only being allowed one hour of running a day, 5 km from her house, she was ready for a challenge. She and two friends decided to run the extremely difficult Larapinta Trail in the Northern Territory of Australia.  There were times on the trail that were “really, really tough,” but at the end, when the community came out for the finish, she realized that “this is why I love this sport and this is what I want to do. I want to tell stories and I want to show places to people and I want to create community.” The past few months presented Lucy with a different kind of challenge.  She was diagnosed with cancer in one eye and has undergone surgery to remove the tumor.  But the love and support she received when she revealed her diagnosis on social media have made her realize that people care about her as a person, not only about her appearance and her ability as a runner.  Now she's eager to get back out on the trails. “I can be a part of the community and I can be out where I love, in nature, and that's kind of what I've taken away from a really challenging few months.” Resources: Lucy's Instagram “Running Out,” the documentary about Lucy running the Larapinta Trail Lucy's website Lucy's podcast interview with Dylan Bowman   Thank you to Tracksmith, InsideTracker, and Zencastr for sponsoring this episode. 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Go here to get 25% off site wide!                                                    Zencastr is an all-in-one podcast production suite that gives you studio quality audio and video without needing all the technical know-how.  I've tried all different platforms, I've tried all different types of things and I am obsessed with Zencastr. I love it. I encourage everyone I know to use it because it is just so easy. Go here to get 30% off your first three months. Thanks for listening! We know there are so many podcasts you could listen to, and we are honored you have chosen Running For Real.  If you appreciate the work that we do, here are a few things you can do to support us: Take a screenshot of the episode, and share it with your friends, family, and community on social media, especially if you feel that the topic will resonate with them.  Be sure to tag us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram If you are struggling through something a guest mentions, chances are others are too, and you will help them feel less alone.  Leave an honest review on iTunes or your favorite podcast player. Your ratings and reviews will really help us grow and reach new people. Not sure how to leave a review or subscribe?  You can find out here. "Thank you" to Lucy.  We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the show.

In this latest SBS Hindi news bulletin of Australia and India: Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce tests positive for COVID-19 on a work trip in the United States; Queensland and Northern Territory meet their 80 per cent vaccination targets; Rohit Sharma replaces Virat Kohli as India's One Day International captain and more.  

SBS Sinhala feature on the latest Covid updates of Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. - Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory , වික්ටෝරියා, නිව් සවුත් වේල්ස්, ක්වීන්ස්ලන්තය සහ දකුඉනු ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාව ඇතුළු ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාවෙන් වාර්තා වන නවතම කොවිඩ් තතු විත්ති රැගත් දෙසැම්බර් 09 වන දා බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා ප්‍රචාරය වූ SBS සිංහල සේවයේ කාලීන තොරතුරු විශේෂාංගයට සවන්දෙන්න.

At just 11 years old, Imogen Cadzow is the youngest child of Steve and Rebecca Cadzow from Mt Riddock Station, north-east of Alice Springs. In this bonus episode, Immi shares stories about what it's been like growing up on a cattle station, and how it prepared her to move interstate to attend boarding school. This episode is supported by Direct Drilling. Direct Drilling is a locally owned family drilling company based in Kununurra, servicing the Kimberley and Northern Territory. All Drillers are nationally licensed with the Australian Drilling Industry Association ensuring best practice, the protection of water resources, and guaranteeing the life of the bore. Find out more at directdrill.com.au This podcast is brought to you by Ariat Australia: the perfect choice for the tough jobs. Ariat boots and clothing work hard, look good and are so comfortable there's never a need to slow down. Visit ariat.com.au today.

For several years, David Cole has been a minor celebrity in the Northern Territory on account of his colorful conspiracy theories. While few people take anything he has to say seriously, Cole has still been able to find a way to negatively affect his local community and the global audience who have found his work online. Josh Blackwell is a writer for The Quillette and an Outback Drug and Alcohol Case Manager & Educator in the Northern Territory, he joins Luke Grant to tell us what is happening on the ground and how the community has reacted to Cole and his mad man rants.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's up to my naughty neutrophils and quixotic quarks! Welcome to the BNP everyone and thank you for joining! Shout out to my patrons: y'all are the Amanita mushrooms beneath my ancient Finnish Fir tree that the old mushroom shamans used to collect for Winter Solstice Wild Hunt ritual consumption!This episode is a doozy friends. It's a solo doozy and I made sure to pepper in some goofy goblin goblets and tender zany tidbits for ya. The topic of this week's episode is essentially a clarion call to defend the integrity of our organic biology! We are not helpless beings. In fact, we are remarkably resilient and adaptive. Our immune systems are so powerful!  I feature an article by the amazing Whitney Webb about a new financial class being cooked up called "Natural Asset Corporations," yikes! Also featured is an interview from the Unherd podcast with Hayley Hodgson, a 20-something Australian who was forced to spend 14 days in a dystopian Covid camp outside Darwin, Northern Territory, after one of her co-workers had tested positive and police scanned her scooter plate. The main thrust of this episode is to inspire myself and others to create alternative, parallel, and most importantly, human, systems of barter, trade, commerce, and information sharing. We need to develop an alternative to the digital biomedical menagerie that is being offered to us. The system loses all its power if enough of us simply disengage and refuse to participate in it. The cover art is a grass cell under a microscope. Look how happy it is! Help keep the BNP on the air by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/noetics. For as little as $1/month, you become a partner in the BNP. Help make the magic happen! You also receive a free dream interpretation and an original haiku when you sign up. Act Now! You'll read the same pitch slightly tweaked  next week! Let's elevate the human spirit y'all! Follow the BNP on IG @conantannerUntil next week everyone, Be excellent to one another,and be loving towards yourself. One Love,ConanTRACKLIST FOR THIS EPISODE Danheim - BerserkerDykotomi - Corvid CrunkThe Ocean Inside You - Lo Fi MixUnHerd Podcast feat. Hayley Hodgson re: Australian Covid CampsOne Night in Bangkok Edit PhxChapo Trap House Podcast: Assassination Day feat. Aaron GoodeKashif - Help Yourself to My Love The Socialist Program Podcast: Inflation is Class Warfare feat. Richard WolffBlap Deli - Hands feat. P Heir Campfire Crackling - Lo Fi Mix Mpita Njia - Alicios ft. Juliana528 Hz Whole Body RegenerationGeorge Stitcher - 90's Commercial Music Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze Part 1 and 2 Kwea Pipa - SasambuaMothers of Invention - Hungry Freaks, DaddyZelda & Chill - Lo Fi MixConstant Flow (feat. Immortal Technique & Melanie Fontana) - Moment of PeaceJedi Mind Tricks - I Against I feat. Planetary of Outer Space)LINKSThe Moment: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-moment-part-oneWhitney Webb Article on Natural Asset Corporations: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/10/investigative-reports/wall-streets-takeover-of-nature-advances-with-launch-of-new-asset-class/Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/noetics)

[00:30] COVID Tyranny (23 minutes)Three teenagers recently tried to escape from Australia's Howard Springs COVID-19 detention camp. Police set up checkpoints and set out on a relentless search to find the escapees. Michael Gunner, the premier of Australia's Northern Territory, where the detention camp is located, said, “Absconding from Howard Springs isn't just dangerous—it's incredibly stupid.” Why? “Because we will catch you,” he says, “and there will be consequences.” The three teenagers were captured and each tested negative for COVID-19. However, they've been returned to detention and will each have to pay multi-thousand-dollar fines. This is just one example of many that illustrate how COVID-19 is being used by those in power to control people's lives. [23:40] Texas School Board Declares War on Parents (6 minutes)In the Texas town of Round Rock, the local school board coordinated with police to arrest two fathers who caused a disturbance during a school board meeting. The dads were arrested for defending their children against unlawful mask mandates and were forced to spend the night in jail. America has turned into a nation where bureaucrats who oversee the education of children use law enforcement to strong-arm parents who disagree with the way their children are being taught. [30:15] The Deadly Attack That Never Happened (6 minutes)Out of the 60 injured in the deadly Waukesha terrorist attack, 18 of them were children. Many are still recovering in hospitals, and for many, like 16-year-old Erick Tiegs, their bodily injuries will change their lives forever. Yet the radical-leftist media won't cover the tragedy and Joe Biden won't visit the families suffering as a result of this attack. As Newt Gingrich stated on Fox News, “[I]t's a nonevent because it is actually an African-American who had posted racist comments, anti-white comments, who had posted that you can use a vehicle to kill people.” [36:10] Bible Study: Called to Support the Work (19 minutes)Today's study is built around a statement Herbert W. Armstrong made in 1974: “God's Church is proclaiming to the whole world the very gospel God sent to mankind by Jesus Christ—and no one else is, or has, for 18½ centuries. Your part in that Work is the only reason you were called to conversion now, before the time of the Kingdom of God.”

Australian News: 01 December 2021 – Wednesday Read by Selvi - ஆஸ்திரேலிய செய்திகள்: 01 டிசம்பர் 2021 புதன்கிழமை வாசித்தவர்: செல்வி  வெள்ளிக்கிழமை

Our media still pushes ahead with clickbait headlines but not a lot of substance in the details. A prison guard dies anJ Fallon on Apple Music d Covid is to blame (obviously). But who knows because there is not a lot of information provided. A lot of discussion and fearmongering surrounding the latest variant Omicron. Yet no mention in the media that Omicron has been brought into the country via vaccinated people. You know, the protected ones. And why are people trying to escape from a quarantine facility in the Northern Territory? Should the media be investigating these facilities? But while there are some interesting and large scale issues going on in our nation and around the world, the media insists on the clickbait headlines for the same old dredged out stories. So this is just my opinion. Below are the links to my YouTube Channel and also my music on Apple music The Slippery Slope Podcast YouTube J Fallon on Apple Music Port Phillip prison guard who refused to get jab dies of Covid (dailymail.co.uk) US, China in new 'arms race' to develop 'lethal' hypersonic missiles (msn.com) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-fallon/message

[00:30] Killer SUVs (10 minutes)The Washington Post described Darrell Brooks's attack on paraders in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last week as a “tragedy caused by a SUV.” In this domestic terrorist attack, why won't the media report on the identity and motives of the man behind the wheel? As Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote, “[T]he media can turn from creation to suppression on a dime, given the common theme of ginning up racial strife and hatred.” [10:15] Biggest Public Policy Failure in History (15 minutes)Joe Biden said he would end the pandemic during his first 100 days in office. There have been 414,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths in America so far this year. The virus has actually killed more people this year than it did in 2020—and hundreds of millions have been vaccinated this year. Between lockdowns, face masks, social distancing and now the triple dose of the vaccine, nothing is ending the pandemic. Meanwhile, the collateral damage inflicted by these draconian policies has caused more damage to our nations than the virus itself. [25:20] Vaccine Madness in Australia and Greece (10 minutes)There have been zero COVID-19 deaths in Australia's Northern Territory since the start of the pandemic. Still, state leader Michael Gunner says he will “never back down from supporting vaccines.” Gunner's lockdown in the Northern Territory prohibits the unvaccinated from leaving their homes even to buy food! In Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis intends to fine those who refuse the jab $114 for each month they remain unvaccinated. “It is not a punishment,” Mitsotakis said. “I would say it is a health fee.” [35:40] Bible Study: True Biblical Manhood (18 minutes)True biblical manhood is a rarity in modern society. It's hard to find strong young men who pattern their lives after Jesus Christ, the perfect example of true manhood—men who seek to build their bodies and their minds to the glory of God. Yet this pursuit of biblical manhood is one of the noblest, most fulfilling and rewarding ventures a young man can embark upon!

It's that time of year again - to catch up on what our podcast host, Steph Coombes, has been up to since leaving her job and hitting the road full-time, visiting cattle stations for the last 18 months! Unlike her last episode (#54) which she recorded solo, in this episode Steph is joined by Pip Bain from Episode 35, as Pip "attempts" to interview Steph. Turns out that Steph belongs on one side of the microphone only! This episode is supported by Direct Drilling. Direct Drilling is a locally owned family drilling company based in Kununurra, servicing the Kimberley and Northern Territory. All Drillers are nationally licensed with the Australian Drilling Industry Association ensuring best practice, the protection of water resources, and guaranteeing the life of the bore. Find out more at directdrill.com.au This podcast is brought to you by Ariat Australia: the perfect choice for the tough jobs. Ariat boots and clothing work hard, look good and are so comfortable there's never a need to slow down. Visit ariat.com.au today.

Five cases of the latest COVID variant Omicron have now been confirmed in Australia, after a case was discovered in the Northern Territory earlier today and two more were picked up in New South Wales late Monday afternoon. The Health Minister Greg Hunt says the nation's vaccination rates puts Australia in a good position to respond to this variant.

NSW Health has confirmed two returned travellers have tested positive for the new Omicron COVID-19 variant in Sydney, Another Aboriginal remote community in the Northern Territory enters lockdown, New Australian laws to tackle online trolls. The Perth Scorchers claim their first title in the Women's Big Bash League.

Australia's Northern Territory has imposed a sweeping vaccine mandate for customer-facing workers, and its chief minister, Michael Gunner, says anyone who opposes it is an anti-vaxxer, even if they're fully vaccinated. True North's Andrew Lawton points out the ridiculousness of the claim that someone could be triple-Pfizered with a side of Johnson and Johnson and still be "anti-vax" if they support personal choice. Plus, Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins to break down the Liberals' throne speech. Support the show: https://tnc.news/lawton-heritage-club/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this bulletin, Indigenous leaders urge the government to work with First Nations people to contain the Northern Territory's COVID outbreak; Germany set to have a new coalition government; And in sport, the AFL draft begins for the 2022 season.

Wararka waxaa ka mid ah: Victoria oo sheegtay inay dawlada federalka maxkamad la tiigsan doonto.Kaysaska COVID-19 Northern Territory oo sii kordhay.Dawlada federalka Australia oo liiska argagixisada ku dartay kooxo xagjir ah.

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COVID-19 had been largely kept out of the Northern Territory, but in the past few days that changed. Now, residents in a string of communities are living under some of the harshest lockdowns yet imposed in Australia, as the virus spreads in Katherine and across the outback. So what went wrong? Today on The Signal, we're examining how the virus spread in the NT, and asking whether the lockdowns and a reinvigorated vaccination campaign will halt its spread. Featured: Jane Bardon, ABC Northern Territory reporter Deb Aloisi, Binjari Community Aboriginal Corporation Kevin Rogers, Rockhole resident Lisa Mumbin, Chairwoman, Wurli Wurlinjang Aboriginal Health Service, Katherine Jack Green, Garawa elder Malarndirri McCarthy, NT Labor Senator Dr Robert Parker, Australian Medical Association NT President John Paterson, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance chief executive

The Northern Territory managed to only record a handful of cases and avoided any deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic, but now the NT is on the brink of a public health crisis. An outbreak in the town of Katherine is spreading to remote communities across the territory.And almost everyone who has tested positive so far is Indigenous.Today, Labor Senator for the Northern Territory, Malarndirri McCarthy talks about her family who were some of the first people impacted by the current outbreak, and how a poor vaccination strategy combined with misinformation created the conditions for this impending crisis. Guest: Labor Senator for the Northern Territory, Malarndirri McCarthy.Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our correspondent in Sydney, Brad Foster, talks to Jesse about the latest embarrassment for the Australian cricket team and concerns about Covid reaching remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

Harry Bowman tells adventurous tales from his three decades driving tour boats in the crocodile-infested Adelaide River, including the day he saved the life of a croc named Brutus (R)

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for respectful debate without violent remarks towards politicians who are developing pandemic laws to protect the public from COVID-19. While leaders are easing some health rules in Victoria, the threat of coronavirus is not yet over in the Northern Territory, despite recording no new COVID-19 cases on Thursday. - Австралискиот премиер Скот Морисон повика на дебата со почит без насилни забелешки кон политичарите кои работат на развивање закони за пандемијата за да ја заштитат јавноста од КОВИД-19. Додека лидерите олеснуваат некои здравствени правила во Викторија, заканата од коронавирус сè уште не е завршена во Северната територија, и покрај тоа што во четвртокот не забележаа нови случаи на KОВИД-19.

And the threat of coronavirus is not yet over in the Northern Territory, despite recording no new COVID-19 cases.

Aboriginal survivors of abuse at a Northern Territory mission get an official apology, but is it enough given the historic pain? COVID restrictions are lifting across Victoria, but not for the unvaccinated, while the Prime Minister says it's time Australians took back control of their lives. And Apple bows to pressure and will start offering iPhone users kits to repair their own devices, is this a turning point for modern technology?

There are fears covid cases could grow in the Northern Territory with many having travelled to Katherine for a recent funeral.

Community members have long warned that overcrowding, misinformation and a lack of communication in Aboriginal languages means those communities are left vulnerable in the pandemic. Now the Northern Territory has recorded 19 cases, and they're all young Aboriginal people. How did we get here? A survey has revealed Aussies have done eight weeks of unpaid work on average during the pandemic - and young people are the worst off. Plus, the copyright battle over popstar Taylor Swift's music has heated up after she re-recorded and released her iconic album ‘Red'. Live guests: Malarndirri McCarthy, Garrwa-Yanyuwa woman and NT Labor Senator Dan Nahum, researcher from the Australia Institute Dr Kylie Pappalardo, copyright lawyer

Nine new covid cases have been detected in the Northern Territory, taking the current outbreak to 11.

In 1942, Darwin was a small town with limited civil and military infrastructure. Seeing its location in close proximity to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Portuguese Timor and others, the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force constructed bases near the town in the 1930s and the early years of World War II (1939-1945). In spite of being the Northern Territory's capital city after the Territory split from South Australia in 1911, Darwin's pre-war permanent non-military population was 5,800 – for comparison, Sydney passed that population level in convicts alone, in 1816.Considering all this, it's not surprising that Darwin became a target for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. Early in the morning of February 19, 1942, four Japanese aircraft carriers - Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū – launched 188 aircraft into the sky, heading south for Darwin. By the end of the day, the city was gone.

In 1942, Darwin was a small town with limited civil and military infrastructure. Seeing its location in close proximity to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Portuguese Timor and others, the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force constructed bases near the town in the 1930s and the early years of World War II (1939-1945). In spite of being the Northern Territory's capital city after the Territory split from South Australia in 1911, Darwin's pre-war permanent non-military population was 5,800 – for comparison, Sydney passed that population level in convicts alone, in 1816.Considering all this, it's not surprising that Darwin became a target for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. Early in the morning of February 19, 1942, four Japanese aircraft carriers - Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū – launched 188 aircraft into the sky, heading south for Darwin. By the end of the day, the city was gone.

On today's episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, the brothers have on a very special guest who recently announced his candidacy for Lt. Governor of Texas, Matthew Dowd! During the interview, we cover everything from the tangible changes Matthew would pursue if elected to the current problems with Texas' current administration. The conversation shifts gears and the brothers discuss the latest breaking news of the week, including Trump's most recent deposition in NYC, the passing of Colin Powell, Ted Cruz getting DESTROYED by Australia's Chief Minister for the Northern Territory and much more! If you enjoyed today's episode please be sure to rate, review and subscribe. As always, thank YOU for listening! Support our sponsors: HoMedics -- Right now if you go to HoMedics.com/MEIDAS and use promo code MEIDAS, you'll receive a FREE REPLACEMENT FILTER with the purchase of your Air Purifier…up to a $99 value! Wondery -- Listen to new episodes of American History Tellers on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or you can listen ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. Nuts.com -- MeidasTouch Podcast listeners get free shipping on your first order at Nuts.com when you text TOUCH to 64-000! Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 Zoomed In: https://pod.link/1580828633 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

--On the Show: --Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is absolutely furious with Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders over an op-ed that Bernie wrote for the West Virginia newspaper Charleston Gazette-Mail --Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was fully vaccinated, has died of COVID-related complications --Texas school official Gina Peddy is caught on an audio recording saying that lessons about the Holocaust should include "opposing" views --Fox News propagandist goes fully homophobic in reaction to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg taking paternity leave --Donald Trump's Republican adversaries, including those who voted to impeach him in the second impeachment trial, are raising more money than their opponents --Donald Trump's deposition is scheduled to begin today in one of many cases pending involving him --Republican Senator Ted Cruz gets crushed by Michael Gunner, the Australian Chief Minister for the Northern Territory, after sticking his foot in his mouth regarding COVID guidelines --Fox News is desperately trying to resurrect the so-called War on Christmas once again --A very confused voicemail caller believes that our reporting on a racist comment by Trump was our racism, and that our channel will never succeed --On the Bonus Show: Fauci optimistic about holidays for vaccinated people, high-schoolers training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage, Chicago police time of restricted over vaccine feud, much more...