Tag: Northern Territory

Organised crime cops in the Northern Territory swoop on 43-year-old after they intercepted a suspicious parcel coming from China.

Report finds principal of isolated school misused funds intended for disadvantaged students, and warns similar incidents could occur.

Four key Defence training facilities in the NT are to receive a $747-million update to help ADF remain battle ready, says PM.

Funding from Territory and Federal governments set to help tourism operators facing their ‘darkest days’ due to pandemic.

First data from exploration in the Barkly Tableland indicates the area could be viable for mining copper and gold, in particular.

New master plan is to guide $276-million rejuvenation that includes improved co-operation with Traditional Owners and upgraded infrastructure.

Practice has been temporarily banned since 2012. Now environmentalists welcome latest announcement as a win for marine life, fishing and culture.

Personnel are to enter Australia as part of training activities with the Defence College, but will have their own quarantine arrangements.

Opposition asks why money is being spent on marketing in the UK and Germany at a time when foreign tourists cannot travel.

As the Ranger Uranium Mine within Kakadu National Park prepares to close, scientists are relying on ants to help restore the area’s biodiversity.

Case against cargo ship’s owners dismissed by Darwin judge due to shortcoming in the Marine Pollution Act in force at the time.

Second group of seasonal workers from the Pacific island arrived in the NT yesterday as government continues easing entry restrictions.

Two males aged 17 and 20 have been arrested in Northern Territory Outback communities for child abuse material.

Residents of most parts of regional Victoria likely to be given quarantine-free entry from November – providing virus cases remain low.

Authorities are scratching their heads as to how to get a giant humpback whale – possible three – out of a croc-infested Kakadu river.

No new recorded cases in the territory for 28 days. But government believes more infections will inevitably happen.

Aussie company developing launch facility for space rockets is concerned about red tape. But space agency says rules must be followed.

High winds, high temperatures and exceptionally dry air are ramping up the potential for significant fire outbreaks around the Top End.

Territory’s Health Minister expects no quick end to tight border controls as more Qld hotspots are added to list.

There's an ambitious new plan to bring more foreign workers into Australia's wild north (think Crocodile Dundee country), but there are a few requirements.

THIS is a newspaper! NT News ups the anti on Malcolm Turnbull's recommendation to Barack Obama.

Tony Abbott criticises the negative impact that early British settlers had on Indigenous Australians.

Police in northern Australia suspect a crocodile may have snatched a 22-year old man who went missing a week ago.

Convicted murderer Bradley Murdoch claims prosecutors at his trial for the murder of Peter Falconio groomed Joanna Lees to make her less unlikeable.

INTERVIEW | Fiona Foley is raising awareness about the mistreatment, and plight of indigenous people in Australia through her controversial artworks, including Vexed a video presentation exploring the breakdown of traditional Aboriginal marriages, currently on display at EcoCentrix; Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts.

Crocodiles have always enjoyed a healthy respect in the Northern Territory but high season has just begun for an even deadlier creature: the box jellyfish.

POSTCARDS FROM AUSTRALIA | Our Australian explorer shakes off the last of a rib-breaking cough to explore the local wildlife of Adelaide River, including crocodiles and buffalo.

A Singapore-based mining company will be forced to pay $150,000 after being convicted of the damage and desecration of an Aboriginal sacred site. It is the first such conviction in Australian history.

Indigenous leaders have marked the sixth anniversary of the controversial 2007 government intervention in the Northern Territory by questioning the psychological repercussions of regulating the day-to-day management of Aboriginal communities.

Mr Yunupingu, the former Yothu Yindi lead singer, has died aged 56 at his home in the Northern Territory.

Indigenous leaders in the Northern Territory have hit back at comments made by Chief Minister Adam Giles that children that are neglected should be adopted out, regardless of fears that the government policy was reminiscent of the Stolen Generation.

HEADING HOME | Australian Matthew Wood is set to swap the grey skies of London, for the stark setting of Australia’s Red Centre — with a new post as Artistic Director of the Darwin Symphony Orchestra and a symphonic concert at iconic Uluru.