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Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro and NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy touring the Peter McAulay Centre Berrimah watch house. Picture: Zizi Averill

Chief ‘unapologetic’ over tough bail laws amid prison squeeze

Police have lost a 100-bed facility as Corrections prepares for more Territorians to be stuck inside a cell under tough new bail laws. Click here for a rare tour inside the Top End’s main police watch house.

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Calls for free blood tests for pregnant women after bub’s death

A loving and doting Territory mother was unable to be by her baby boy’s side in his dying days due to ‘fanciful’ and unfair reports by a bureaucratic government agency.

Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley and Deputy Chief Minister Gerard Maley on Monday December 30. Picture: Zizi Averill

‘Overwhelming pressure’: 2598 Territorians to spend New Years in a cell

The prison boss overseeing one of the most incarcerated places per capita on the planet has warned the Northern Territory is headed for a ‘tough New Year’ as a grim new record is broken.

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Darwin Correctional Precinct general manager David Gordon outside Darwin Local Court following the death in custody inquest for Mati Tamwoy, on Wednesday December 11. Picture: Zizi Averill

NT Prison boss says compassion ‘quashed’ for terminally ill man

The Darwin prison manager has candidly told the Territory coroner, ‘I believe we’ve lost sight of the humanity aspect when we’re dealing with prisoners in most circumstances’.

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Alice Springs Hospital. Picture: Alex Treacy

Alice Springs man’s body found four days after disappearing from hospital

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.

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Alice Springs Hospital. Picture: Alex Treacy

‘Negligence’ considered after mum given lethal dose of sedatives in hospital

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.

Mulka MLA Yingiya Guyula at Garma Festival 2023. Picture: Zizi Averill

Aboriginal Voice in NT proposed after national ‘no’ vote

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.

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ALP Alcohol Policy Minister Brent Potter and CLP Opposition Alcohol Policy spokesman Gerard Maley.

Election 2024: Expert condemns mandatory treatment proposal

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.

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The defunct maximum security adult prison that is has been used as Don Dale Youth Detention Centre since 2015. Picture: (A)manda Parkinson

Teen accuses Don Dale guard of bullying, denying food and illegal isolation

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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Hospitality giant faces new Alice Springs pokies challenge

A NT Human Rights award-winning grassroot organisation has accused a Sydney-based pub chain of submitting a ‘flawed and inadequate’ application to double the number of pokies in their Alice Springs venues.

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Anindilyakwa Land Council chair Tony Wurramarrba.

Bush beds for prisoners hoped to cut reoffending by 30 per cent

A remote Territory island hopes to reduce reoffending rates by 30 per cent by bringing prisoners back on Country. See why this could be the future of local justice reforms.

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Larrakia Nation chairperson Jerome Cubillo and Endeavour Group chief executive Steve Donohue have announced the formal partnership between the two organisations.Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Territory government tenders ditch local contractors

The government has hit a seven-year low in the rate of investment in local businesses, as a three-year review is opened to the public.

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Deputy Chief Minister Chansey Paech at Parliament House. Picture: Fia Walsh

Territory Treaty process dusted off after 12-month hiatus

The Territory has restarted consultations on a Treaty with First Nations people, a year after a $4.2m report was unceremoniously shelved.

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A mother holds the feet of her newborn baby in hospital in Nantes, western France, on July 8, 2018. During a press-conference on January 16, 2024 French President Emmanuel Macron's laid out plans to revive France's sluggish birth rate, promising better parental leave and combat infertility, which he called

Territory women’s life expectancy gap widens

A baby born in the Territory today will die 13 years earlier than a bub in the neighbouring cot because of a single factor.

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