Turning 40: The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory 1974-2014

JAENSCH, Dean & SMITH, Robyn 2015

Since the 1930s, there have been efforts made for the Northern Territory to achieve full representative democracy. In 1978, those efforts paid off when self-government was granted. The book highlights the Territory’s political excitement, controversy and it’s productivity. It covers the years since the Legislative Assembly held it’s

first meeting in 1974 to the possibilities of Statehood in the following century.