Leader of the NT ALP Opposition , Jon Isaacs , addressing a group at an Aboriginal settlement in Central Australia , circa l980. The person on the left in shorts is award winning journalist Duncan Graham , who worked for Isaacs , and was based in Alice Springs . Now he spends time between New Zealand and Indonesia and runs the blog INDONESIA NOW...Interpreting Indonesia with a Western perspective : Expanding inter-cultural understanding and mutual respect. Born in England in l938, he worked for the ABC and has written books on Indonesia and Aborigines in WA.