The NT Health Department’s new radiation oncology residential centre in Darwin is expected to open in the near future. Selecting an appropriate person after whom to name the place is under consideration . It is understood that one of those on the list is the late Darwin journalist and author, Barbara James, who died of cancer.
Barb distinguished herself on TV by throwing her wig in the air when the ALP won government for the first time . Barbara raised the idea that a new federal NT electorate be named BOWDITCH , after the crusading NT News editor, James Frederick Bowditch. The move to honour the editor did not succeed , the electorate being named LINGIARI after Vincent Lingiari , of Wattie Creek , leader of the Gurindjis, for whom Bowditch fought and aided in many ways.
Barbara did, however, succeed in getting Big Jim listed in an international organisation as a journalist who contributed to the betterment of mankind.
