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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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Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro in the Northern Territory Parliament on March 27, 2025. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Chief rejects calls for independent death in custody investigation

Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro claims politicians’ calls for an independent investigation into a young man’s death in custody are ‘appalling’, despite backing from family and human rights groups.

NT Police prosecutor Steven Haig was allegedly involved in an off-duty arrest of a 29-year-old woman at the Coles supermarket on Sunday January 12.Â

Woman alleges unlawful use of force during Alice Springs Coles arrest

A young woman who was forced to the ground by the same off-duty NT Police officer involved in the arrest of Kumanjayi White has alleged she was exposed to an unlawful use of force.

The Wadeye Magic building in Wadeye.

AFP death in custody: Tributes flow for Top End champion of bilingual education

‘A mentor to us all’: A Top End community is mourning the passing of a Senior man and community leader after he was taken into ‘protective custody’ by Federal Police, sparking a coronial investigation.

Hundreds of Top End residents gathered outside the NT Parliament on Wednesday for a vigil for Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with a disability who died after being restrained by police in the Alice Springs Coles. Picture: Zizi Averill

‘De-escalation over death’: Emotional vigil for Kumanjayi White

Hundreds of Top End residents gathered to hear the emotional testimony of Warlpiri leaders in the wake of another death in custody for the Yuendumu community. See the photos.

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Robin Granites, the grandfather of a 24-year-old man from Yuendumu walks through aisle four in Coles Alice Springs during a vigil for the young man. The young man died in custody inside the supermarket on May 27, 2025, in aisle four, the lolly aisle. Picture: Gera Kazkov

Man had history of ‘under treatment’ for disability before death in custody

A young Aboriginal man who died after being restrained by police in the Alice Springs Coles had a history of being ‘under medicated and under treated’ while under an NDIS and guardianship plan.

Police at Coles in Alice Springs, 9.55pm Tuesday May 27, 2025. Police are investigating a man's death inside the Coles, which they say occured when he was restrained by two off duty plainclothes officers. Picture: Gera Kazakov

Alice Springs police prosecutor allegedly involved in Coles arrest

A NT Police prosecutor was allegedly involved in the arrest of a young disabled Aboriginal man in an Alice Springs supermarket, which is currently subject to a death in custody investigation.

NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro as Dutton Coalition Government has pledged cheaper Top End airfares by removing the laws that prevent foreign airlines from landing in Darwin to collect passengers for domestic destinations. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

‘Emotions are raw’: Alice Springs shaken by death in custody of Yuendumu man

Leaders are calling for healing and calm amid an investigation into the death of a young Aboriginal man who was forced to the ground by police in an Alice Springs supermarket.

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

Minister quotes Nazi propagandist to attack Labor in racism debate

The Territory’s Multicultural Affairs Minister has defended a speech where he compared the Labor Opposition to a Nazi propaganda chief.

Generic imagery of Northern Territory Corrections. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

‘Catastrophic’: Corrections workers warn against NT bail changes

Proposed bail changes are projected to turn the Territory into the most incarcerated place on the planet, with Corrections workers concerned about more people entering already crammed jails.

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Stolen wages class action lead applicant Minnie McDonald and Shine Lawyers associate Harry Tilse. Picture: Supplied

$10k payments may be ‘inadequate’ after decades of NT stolen wages

A Federal judge said a plan to pay $10,000 to Territorians whose wages were ‘stolen’ for decades may be seen as an ‘insult to what they and their Elders endured’, while lambasting a legal firm’s bid for another multi-million dollar payment.

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