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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A remote community – known as the place where the Dreaming changed shape – has struck a historic 10-year agreement with the NT government.
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.
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.
Territorians are fighting to expand Kakadu National Park to stop another radiactive scar from being carved into Country.
The Attorney-General has recommitted NT to a Treaty pathway following last year’s Voice failure. ‘We don’t need the rest of the country’s permission to do what we need to do.’
Save Lee Point activist face a ticking clock as a date has been set for land clearing to resume for a controversial Top End housing development.
Territorians alarmed by the revival of Intervention-Era politics have slammed calls for military and federal police to be rolled out on the streets, punitive income management and leaders who said remote communities had a “culture of not working”.
One of the most powerful voices in Territory politics has announced its new leader, five months after the passing of Dr Bush-Blanasi.
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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