The path of self government in the NT will be the subject of a talk by Ken Parish on June 28 at the Darwin Archives Centre . When self government was granted in 1978 little thought had been given to what legal and institutional relationships needed to be established between the Territory Government, the Land Councils and traditional owners to enable a smoothly functioning system . Parish , a legal academic at Charles Darwin University, with research areas in public law, a member of the NT Legislative Assembly in the early 1990s, is also in the Friday Club . Photo: Galarrwuy Yunupingu , chair of the Northern Land Council , and Chief Minister of the NT , Paul"Porky"Everingham . Galarrwuy was the 1978 Australian of the Year .
