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With the first sitting of the new Northern Territory Legislative Assembly this week, we thought we’d take a look back at our very first Legislative Assembly, photographed here in 1976. In the front row, from left to right: Ron Withnall, Grant Tambling, Milton Ballantyne, Eric Manuel, Marshall Perron, Ian Tuxworth, Nick Dondas, Roger Steele. Second row: Hyacinth Tungatalum; Roger Vale; Roger Ryan; Paul Everingham; Dave Pollock; Rupert Kentish. Back row: Geoff Letts; Dawn Lawrie; Les MacFarlane; Liz Andrew; Jim Robertson. Eric Manual replaced Bernie Kilgariff in the 1976 Alice Springs by-election. The Northern Territory Library holds all parliamentary records from 1974 onwards, rich pickings for researchers.



Published: 23 October 2016

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forgotten territory

(2016-2019)

Forgotten Territory was a weekly photo column of historic images in the Northern Territory News which I curated from 2016 until 2019 supported by the collections of the Northern Territory Library and other cultural institutions around Australia, as well as local history Facebook groups. 

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Click on the images to read the story behind the image.

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Warning: May contain images of people who have died.

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