‘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.
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.
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.
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.
A Darwin mum who spent three months in homelessness with her four children has described her relief after being given the keys to her new home. See how a $20m investment has helped her and 42 other Top End families.
The court heard ‘no one had a bigger interest’ in the inquest into the 15-year-old’s death than his family but they were denied the opportunity to call witnesses or make submissions.
One of the most powerful voices in Territory politics has announced its new leader, five months after the passing of Dr Bush-Blanasi.
The NT coroner will investigate the death in care of a 45-year-old Alice Springs man, who walked out of a hospital and disappeared.
The coroner has heard a mum-of-three was sedated four times in less than 24-hours, causing a toxic overdose. Now investigators are looking into a potential criminal negligence case.
A Yolngu Elder told his parliamentary colleagues his people were “suffocating” under bureaucracy and has called for Aboriginal Territorians to be given a direct Voice to parliament.
A Territory rehab leader has condemned the revival of a zombie alcohol policy, seven years after the $18m a year mandatory alcohol treatment program was found to have no long-term benefits. FIND OUT HOW THE ALP, CLP RESPONDED.
A teenager who was allegedly bullied by a guard, denied food and illegally placed in solitary isolation is fighting to have evidence against him thrown out of court.
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