‘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.
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.
The Territory has restarted consultations on a Treaty with First Nations people, a year after a $4.2m report was unceremoniously shelved.
A baby born in the Territory today will die 13 years earlier than a bub in the neighbouring cot because of a single factor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Changes to disability support access for prisoners could have a huge impact on the Territory’s crime rate. Read how.
Landmark changes to the age of criminal responsibility could be reversed under a CLP election push.
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.
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