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Warlpiri Elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves speaking at the 25th Garma Festival at Gulkula, located in East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Sunday August 3, 2025. Picture: Zizi Averill

Kumanjayi White’s family accuse police of lacking transparency

The family of a young disabled Aboriginal man who died in police custody have accused police of failing to communicate with his distressed loved ones.

NT Police Acting Commissioner Martin Dole confirmed the Director of Public Prosecutions had been given a brief following the Death in Custody Investigation for Kumanjayi White on Monday September 22. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Kumanjayi White death in custody investigation referred to prosecutors

The investigation into two Territory police officers who restrained a disabled young Aboriginal man to the ground at the Alice Springs Coles has been referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Read the latest here.

NT Police set up a crime scene on Waterhouse Crescent, Driver.

Man accused of murdering partner in Palmerston named in court

A Territory man who allegedly killed his partner and left her unconscious body outside a Palmerston home has faced a local court judge. Read the latest here.

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Child locked in solitary isolation for 84 hours straight

‘It changed me’: An Aboriginal child was locked in their cell for three days straight and denied food and medication after a 2024 riot in Australia’s most notorious children’s prison, a damning investigation has revealed.

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Rising Colours: The BLAK Party at the 2025 Country to Couture at the Darwin Convention Centre. Picture: Zizi Averill

NT Chief warned not to use Indigenous art fair as ‘political platform’

The executive director of Australia’s largest Indigenous arts festival has told the NT Chief Minister not to use the event as a political prop, following controversial youth justice changes.

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Warlpiri Elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves speaking at the 25th Garma Festival at Gulkula, located in East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Sunday August 3, 2025. Picture: Zizi Averill

‘Using their power to destroy us’: Elder’s calls for PM to intervene in NT

An Aboriginal Elder who lost two young family members to police deaths in custody has called the Prime Minister to intervene in the Territory justice system.

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - July 31, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Voice leaders accused PM of using Garma as ‘performative opportunity’

Labor has been accused of using the nation’s biggest festival of Indigenous culture to spruik talking points, rather than address hardships facing Aboriginal people.

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GULKULA, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 2, 2024. The Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures Australia's largest Indigenous cultural gathering is underway in Gulkula northeast Arnhem Land. Picture: Yothu Yindi Foundation/Melanie Faith Dove via NewsWire

‘Law of the land’: Garma Festival celebrates 25 years

Two laws, two cultures and two worlds will once again meet on the ancient ceremonial grounds in far north of the country for the 25th annual Garma festival. See what’s planned over the four day event.

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Protestors gathered in front of Parliament House on Wednesday to protest the potential lowering of the criminal age of responsibility in the NT. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Diversion could be stripped back for charges against young offenders

An NT police program could be severely cut back under youth justice changes. See why victims’ advocates and crime prevention experts have to say.

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At the Alice Springs Prison, an unidentified Artist takes a break from working on his much sort after wire Sculptures.

Three per cent of NT Aboriginal population started last week in a prison cell

Three per cent of the NT’s total Aboriginal population started last week in a prison cell, as new figures reveal the impact of rising custody numbers.

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St John's Ambulance NT attended Darwin Local Court on Friday February 7 after a 19-year-old man became unwell while in the court cells. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Darwin courts overwhelmed by 250pc spike in custody numbers

Experts warn victims of crime, defendants and witnesses are ‘falling through the cracks’ of an overwhelmed court system due to unprecedented rates of in-custody cases in Darwin.

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Justice Not Jails members Sel Appo, left, Thomas Mayo, Natalie Hunter holding a stack of more than 700 signed petitions calling for an independent investigation into the death of Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man who died after being restrained by NT Police at the Alice Springs Coles on Tuesday May 27. Picture: Zizi Averill

Witnesses to Alice Springs death in custody demand independent investigation

More than 700 Territorians have signed a call for an independent investigation into the death in custody of Kumanjayi White.

Minister Bill Yan and Minister Jinson Charls at a press conference with an update on the Northern Territory Art Gallery, Darwin NT. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Disability Minister claims ‘no responsibility’ to investigate death in custody

The Territory’s disability minister has claimed it was not his ‘responsibility’ to ask questions into a death in custody case.

Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage visits Yuendumu during an inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker. Outside house 511. L-R counsel assisting Maria Walz and Peggy Dwyer wiht Coroner Elisabeth Armitage. Picture: Jason Walls

Walker inquest team called up for Coles death in custody investigation

The same lawyers who assisted the Territory coroner in the investigation of Kumanjayi Walker’s death will be called upon in the coronial inquest of another death in custody of a young Yuendumu man.

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