Today the NT Government announced that it's ok to start fracking the Beetaloo Basin, claiming that all 135 recommendations from the 2018 Pepper Inquiry report have been met and, therefore, fracking can proceed. Most of the recommendations - and you can go through them all here: Action items | Hydraulic Fracturing in the Northern Territory - are outside my field of expertise as a linguist. There's a lot of regulatory stuff, things about the mining industry, stuff about land and water management that others know much more about than me. However, as a linguist working in the Katherine Region for 20 years, there is one recommendation that sits in my wheelhouse so, after today's announcement, I wanted to take a look at it. It's Recommendation 11.6, which says: That in collaboration with the Government, Land Councils and AAPA, an independent, third-party designs and implements an information program to ensure that reliable, accessible, trusted and accurate information...
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Your blog is awesome - I've really enjoyed reading it so far, and will be checking in again.
Good to see you're staying true to your nerdy self :-)
Don't you like the gee-tar picture? Why didn't you post that? Actually, I have a couple of you playing the guitar and another one at the gorge. I think your fans want more pix! We'll have to try to satisfy them.
My sister thinks you look like an Abercrombie model in this picture...
and sure, if you're offering to lend me more of your pics that'd be great (not that i asked to use this one in the first place!)