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Anna Torv as Emily Lawson and Philippa Northeast as her daughter, Susie, in Territory.

The Aussie drama taking Netflix by storm

For four days in late October, Territory, which follows the Lawson family and its tenuous hold on Marianne cattle station, topped global Netflix viewing.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

September

Ranger uranium mine rehab project in the Northern Territory

Uranium mine shareholders try to delay Rio Tinto capital raise

The Takeovers Panel confirmed two of the uranium miner’s shareholders are trying to delay an $880 million capital raise backed by major shareholder, Rio Tinto. 

  • Elouise Fowler

August

Students at the University of Sydney. It, along with other Group of Eight universities, will lose the largest number of students under changes the government is making.

Major universities smashed in Labor about-face on overseas students

The government will cap numbers and redistribute them across the sector, one of the country’s biggest export industries, with smaller institutions to benefit.

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  • Julie Hare
Lia Finocchiaro claimed victory as the first female CLP Chief Minister-elect.

NT wipeout should spark real ‘closing the gap’ discussion

Ideally, the prominent role Indigenous policy will play in two critical NT federal seats would prompt much-needed discussion of Noel Pearson’s responsibility agenda.

  • The AFR View
MinRes founder and fishing enthusiast Chris Ellison with a red emperor.

Billionaire fisherman faces barramundi wipeout

Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison’s private company, Wild Barra Fisheries, faces uncertain future under plans to ban gill nets in the NT and Queensland.

  • Brad Thompson
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A fighter jet lands on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea.

Talks sanction more US bombers, fighter jets, spy planes in Australia

Annual defence and foreign affairs talks will see Australia deepen its role as the US’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in a potential conflict with China.

  • Andrew Tillett and Matthew Cranston
An industry-wide approach makes the government less vulnerable to increasing criticism it is gambling taxpayer funds on the success or failure of specific companies.

Future Made in Australia is already running off the rails

The Albanese government has fallen into the trap of trying to achieve political wins at high economic cost. And nobody is stopping them.

  • John Kehoe

July

Anthony Albanese started his address to the NSW Labor conference on Saturday with news about Jabiluka.

Jabiluka was cancelled by edict from above

The decision to mine the uranium deposit or not should have been taken by the parties involved, not through the high-handed intervention of an anti-nuclear government.

  • Tony Grey
The Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory, owned by ERA, stopped mining in 2012. Now it is a big and costly clean-up job.

States should drop ‘ridiculous’ uranium bans: Mundine

Former ALP national president Warren Mundine says state government should end their bans on mining uranium, and the Mirrar people should be able to negotiate whether the practice remains at Jabiluka.

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Immigration Minister Andrew Giles says the federal government wants to ensure more skilled migrants are going to the states that need them.

Queensland to cop skilled migrant cut amid boost to smaller states

Queensland will be the only Australian state to suffer a reduction in the number of skilled migrant allocations this financial year.

  • Tom Rabe

June

Heritage ‘price gouging’ strains miners and native title groups

Archaeologists and anthropologists have been accused of “ripping off” native title groups and miners, and driving a sharp rise in the cost of heritage surveys

  • Peter Ker
Northern Minerals executive chairman Nick Curtis became the company’s strategic adviser after pressure tactics from a Chinese shareholder.

Crackdown on Chinese investors a cautionary tale

Small critical minerals companies are caught up in the midst of a geopolitical struggle between China and the West. Northern Minerals is the latest example.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers

China-linked investors forced to offload Northern Minerals shares

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the decision, based on Foreign Investment Review Board advice, was made to “protect our national interest”.

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  • Elouise Fowler

August 2023

Anthony Albanese announced the plan at Labor’s national conference in Brisbane

First home ‘help to buy’ scheme to start in 2024

Up to 40,000 low- and middle-income families will get extra help to buy their first home from next year.

  • Tom McIlroy
Kalium’s project at Beyondie Lakes in Western Australia received $83m in NAIF funding.

The $7b fund for projects commercial lenders won’t back

Some of the projects the federal government’s Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility is funding have raised eyebrows.

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  • Mark Ludlow
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Garma festival in East Arnhem in 2022.

Fighting for his Voice, Albanese heads back to Garma

With the Yes campaign in trouble – sidetracked by debate over treaty – can Anthony Albanese rescue the Voice from Arnhem Land?

  • Tom McIlroy

June 2023

Tamboran Resources will start fracking the Beetaloo Basin next month.

Tamboran Resources inks gas sale agreements with Shell and BP

The company told shareholders yesterday it had also selected APA Group, the pipelines giant, to connect the Beetaloo Basin project to Darwin by 2025.

  • Elouise Fowler
In the run-up to the 2019 federal election health minister Greg Hunt won prime ministerial agreement for a $2 billion federal hospital and health fund.

Morrison government caught – yet again – handing out dodgy grants

Three strikes against a billion dollars of election largesse? The auditor-general has again called out the practice of cooking up grant projects in the ministerial wing of Parliament House.

  • Tom Burton

May 2023

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A spectacular $10m drone and light show opens over Uluru

Featuring more than 1000 drones, Wintjiri Wiru is a spectacular new light display aimed at driving more tourists back to the Red Centre.

  • Sean Thompson
At the Jabiru Retreat cabins, mesh walls are all that separate guests from the fun outside.

Feeling twitchy? Check out this relaxing eco-retreat near Kakadu

At the new Jabiru Retreat lodgings at Bamurru Plains, mesh walls mean you are incredibly close to the wildlife passing (and flying) by.

  • Tony Boyd

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