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NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price attending her Federal Court hearing in Darwin over allegations she defamed Central Land Council chair Lesley Turner in a press release in July 2024. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Senator Price accused of ‘wilful blindness’ towards land council chief

‘She did nothing right, not one thing. She didn’t even try’: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price accused of knowingly spreading misinformation on final day of defamation trial.

NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, with her husband Colin Lillie, approaching her Federal Court defamation hearing in Darwin on Monday, October 27. Picture: Zizi Averill

Defamation case: Senator Jacinta Price denies being a plot co-conspirator

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has denied she was a co-conspirator in a scheme to replace Indigenous land council chief executive Les Turner with a now-disgraced Alice Springs school principal. Read the latest from court.

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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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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No New Gas Coalition members Grusha Leeman, Juanita Kwok, Phil Scott, Reverend L Lee Levett-Olson, Chris Cox, Alice Nagy and Liz Howells outside the Supreme Court in Darwin. Picture: Zizi Averill

Climate change risks thrown out in Top End fracking appeal

A gas company is celebrating a ‘vindicating’ victory after a Territory court rejected the threat of ‘unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions’ as a relevant environmental risk for a Beetaloo fracking project.

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CANBERRA, Australia, NewsWire Photos. May 31, 2024: Senator Anthony Chisholm appears before Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘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.

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Glencore MRM McArthur River Mine NT

Glencore to plead over alleged NT sacred site breach

A mining giant has indicated it will plead over allegations it illegally worked on a sacred ‘Barramundi Dreaming’ site, which sits next to the mine’s mountain of rock waste.

Barunga Festival Photo - supplied Credit - Glenn Campbell Escape 30 April 2023 Festival cover story

New justice agreement to be signed at Treaty birthplace

Thirty-six years after a Prime Minister promised a Treaty at Barunga Festival, the Territory Government is expected to sign a historic agreement giving Barunga and Wugularr communities a greater say in law, culture and justice issues.

Dheran Young supports a motion for the NT Parliament to support referendum on The Voice. Picture: (A)manda Parkinson

Potential path to NT Voice sparks political rift

Battlelines have been drawn over an inquiry into a future Voice to parliament, with Labor calling for all future policies to provide an explanation on how it will impact the human rights of Territorians. But others warn this may become a ‘tick the box’ exercise.

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Chief Minister Eva Lawler and other politicians travelled to Maningrida to sign a historic 10-year Local Decision Making Agreement in May, giving the Kunibidji people and neighbouring clang groups greater say on issues like education, law and justice, community support, and economic development.Â

‘Creators of their own destiny’: Historic agreement signed in Arnhem Land

A remote community – known as the place where the Dreaming changed shape – has struck a historic 10-year agreement with the NT government.

Chief Minister Eva Lawler and Minister Selena Uibo announce a $2.2bn budget for health in the 2024 NT Budget at the Palmerston Regional Hospital. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Majority of NT ministers fly to Arnhem Land

A town in the heart of Arnhem Land has called the Territory’s leaders to their doorstep to sign a new agreement over their community’s future.

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Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett. Picture: Kane Hibberd / Supplied

Aussie rock legend calls out plans for Kakadu

An Australian rock legend has claimed “people will be ready to rally from every corner of the nation” if a uranium licence is extended in Kakadu National Park.

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