Peggy
Napangardi Jones - 4
Here's a tip for town businesses. Put a Peggy Jones on the wall
Giants Reef - 6
Mining Company invests in the future of Tennant Creek
1885: Race Day in Tennant Creek - 10
Historian Peter Forrest brings home a winner
How I became a Writer - 12
Rosemary Plummer Narrulu remembers her past
Caring for Animals - 14
The RSPCA is back in town
A question of Health - 16
Our man on the frontier is mighty upset about health cuts
All the usual reviews and Stuff - 18
Town Council asks the media to back
Off - 20
There are lies, damned lies, and letters to the editor
A Bogging - 21
Spinifex finds creek crossings are not always a 4-wheel jive
Politics - 24
Maggie has her say alone while the CLP picks its person
Tennant Creek Women's Refuge - 24
Paula Tropeano explains what it does and who it's for
The lost library of Borroloola - 26
Robin Hardiman checks out a well-worn myth
Careers Expo - 32
What's new at the Library - 32
Linda Winzar files her last report and then logs off
Comment - 34
The publisher has his say
Barkly
News Pictorial is published by Artplan Graphics
128 Paterson Street, Tennant Creek 0860
P.O. Box 1110, Tennant Creek 0861
Telephone: 08 8962 2822 Facsimile: 08 8962 2884
email: artplan@topend.com.au
Publisher and Editor: Paul Cockram
ANOTHER MONTH,
another mag. (Yes, I know it's been even longer this time.)
This issue has had to be a solo effort with the departure of Gemma to
the greener pastures of the University of New England. It is true that
you don't realise how much a person does until they stop doing it.
Anyway, thanks Gemma for helping the magazine get off the ground in 1998.
Perhaps we'll see you back this way one day.
Another reason for the delay in producing 1999's first Barkly News Pic
has to do with the weather. Our office is not the coolest place to be
on a stinkin' summers day and it takes its toll on both people and machines.
After the umteenth computer malfunction I looked in the manual to see
what temperatures they are supposed to be able to stand. The laser printer
is rated to operate between 10° and 30°C so it's no wonder it
struggles a bit.
Strangely enough it stops every now and again in hot weather with the
alert: "Waiting for printer - warming up"!
I'm waiting eagerly for the day when computers are fully voice activated,
so that when it says, "can't find scanner", or printer or whatever,
I can yell:
"Look, it's right there next to you, you stupid machine!"
Until next month or whenever ...
Paul Cockram
Farewell dinner for
Gemma at the Margo Miles starring (L-R): Libby, Lee, Gemma< Kylie and
Marie.