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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.

Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro, Alcohol Minister Steve Edgington and Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby at Bundilla Beach in Darwin, NT. The CLP will introduce new laws allowing police to arrest and fine nuisance public drinkers in the Northern Territory. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

‘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.

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Bolmo clan woman Rachel Willika Kendino at Gunlom Falls, in Kakadu National Park. Picture: Zizi Averill

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.

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Traditional owner and Wurrkbarbar clan senior man Joshua Hunter at an on Country court hearing after the Director of National Parks pleaded guilty to breaching the NT Sacred Site Act at Gunlom Falls. Picture: Zizi Averill

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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CDU Tafe chief executive Michael Hamilton shakes hands with Attorney-General Chansey Paech with Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley after the announcement of a $1.7 per-year training partnership between the university and the prisons.

‘Break the revolving door’: $3.4m education boost to prisoners

For three-years running Territory prisons have failed to meet their training targets. Here’s how a new partnership could turn the tide of reoffending.

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Uprising of the People chief executive officer and Kulumbirigin Danggalaba/Tiwi woman Mililma May at her office in Nightcliff.Pic: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Top End Invasion Day protests hit with $8000 fee

Aboriginal leaders have been forced to cough up an $8000 bill five days before a planned Survival Day march, sparking concerns about barriers to protest freedoms.

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Bartholomas Dooley, the nephew and Jake Dooley, the son of Maiyali man known as Mr Dooley (inset) - who died of a heart attack while incarcerated in October 2022. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin, Inset: Supplied by family

Medicos missed chance to help dying prisoner: Expert

A nurse who missed a possible opportunity to rush a dying prisoner to hospital while he was suffering a heart attack has vowed to ‘be a better clinician’. Latest from the inquest.

Kate Worden, speaks during National Police Remembrance Day 2023 in Darwin on September 29, 2023. Photo by PEMA TAMANG PAKHRIN

$2.41m pilot program to reform abusers before ‘crisis point’

A $2.41m program could help abusive men deal with their anger and break the cycle of domestic violence, but experts warn more of these programs are needed before a controversial legal reform ticks into effect.

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Promise to help disabled prisoners behind bars

Changes to disability support access for prisoners could have a huge impact on the Territory’s crime rate. Read how.

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CLP member and Brennan representative Marie-Clare Boothby speaking near parliament on January 2, 2023.

‘Shame’: Why legal experts slam plan to lock up primary school kids

Landmark changes to the age of criminal responsibility could be reversed under a CLP election push.

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Indigenous woman Colleen Rosas dropped out of school in year 8 and now she's starting a law degree as a grandmother. Photograph: Che Chorley

Federal Attorney-General steps in amid NAAJA chaos

The Australian and Northern Territory’s top legal officers have demanded that NAAJA open its books and reveal how funding has been spent amid a staffing crisis.

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

Fresh delays to the Territory’s own Voice to Parliament

A public hearing discussing the Territory’s own Voice to Parliament has hit an eleventh-hour stumbling block.

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Job PD991995. Patty Kinnersly, Our Watch CEO stood with the Prime Minister Scott Morrison with Paul Fletcher the Minister for Families and Social Services, Kelly OÕDwyer the Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations and Minister for Women during a press conference in Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

Discrimination against women linked to youth crime, court hears

A national body trying to change attitudes that lead to domestic violence has told a coronial inquest it’s ‘nearly impossible’ to work in Territory communities where people don’t feel safe.

The flag of the United Nations is flown at half-mast in front of the Secretariat building March 11, 2019, the morning after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi crashed early on March 10, 2019 with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard with no survivors. - No other flags will be flown when the UN flag is at half-mast.Flags flew at half-staff at the United Nations on Monday after 21 UN staff were killed in an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said marked a

UN child abuse investigator arrives in the Territory

An international child abuse investigator has landed in Central Australia, as crimes against Territory kids jump by 22 per cent.

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