Inquest into Top End toddler’s death
A Territory toddler who died in Palmerston Hospital after suffering flu-like symptoms will be subject to a mandatory death in care inquest.
Closing The Gap
‘On the brink of collapse’: $1m NT Legal Aid boost ‘insufficient’
A decade of ignored warnings about NT Legal Aid’s budget has resulted in the critical service scaling back services, despite a $1m cash injection.
Gunlom Falls exposes cracks in Kakadu Park management ‘marriage’
A five-year fight over an illegal walkway has brought up dark memories of dispossession and voicelessness for Kakadu National Park Traditional Owners.
Commonwealth to pay record-breaking fine for Kakadu sacred site breach
Gunlom Falls could reopen to the public next year as Kakadu traditional owners start the process of ‘healing’ after a five-year battle with the Commonwealth.
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First ever national inquiry into youth justice
A federal inquiry into children’s prisons will investigate allegations of ‘torture-like’ conditions across Australia.
Kakadu leaders demand apology amid mine lease dispute
Territory Traditional Owners fighting to expand Kakadu National Park have called out what they claim are ‘disrespectful’ comments by mining bosses and an anti-Voice campaigner.
‘Wasteful’ Native Title inquiry knocked back
An opposition campaign to grill Aboriginal Corporations and land councils has been called ‘wasteful’ and ‘destructive’, due to an ongoing investigation into the Native Title Act.
‘Dumbfounding’: The fatal error after NT mum’s minor surgery
‘I touched her body and felt her pulse, but it was the machine making her alive’: A Territory woman has described her distress watching her mother on a ventilator after a minor surgery went fatally wrong.
Why this door could cost the government $190,000
What is the price of a renter’s distress? Judges pushed to put a price tag on the feeling of ‘disappointment’ when living in a dilapidated home after an Aussie grandmother won a landmark tennant’s rights victory.
$12M bipartisan promise to back Territory rangers
The Territory’s network of rangers who spend their lives on the water, out bush and caring for country could be in financial limbo. Here’s why a $12m funding pledge could provide four-years of security.
Teen sets fire to own cell in infamous children’s prison
A child has reportedly set fire to their own cell in Australia’s most infamous children’s prison, while in Central Australia eight teens have caused damage and climbed onto the roof.
Embattled NT legal agency defends chair’s assault history
The NT’s Domestic Violence Minister says it’s ‘totally inappropriate’ for a perpetrator to lead the Territory’s largest justice agency, as NAAJA defends giving its chair a second chance.
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