NT mandatory rehab saves lives: Elferink
NT Attorney-General makes no apologies for the territory’s controversial mandatory alcohol rehabilitation scheme, saying it saves lives.
NT Attorney-General makes no apologies for the territory’s controversial mandatory alcohol rehabilitation scheme, saying it saves lives.
STRENGTHENING relationships with Asian countries will create export opportunities for Australian cattle farmers, Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce says.
A MAN accused of knocking over a nine-year-old boy, who later died, before driving away has been charged in the Northern Territory.
THE pressure’s on Australian cattle farmers, with new laws allowing Indonesia to introduce more competition into its market.
DARWIN police are intensifying their search for the driver of a vehicle allegedly involved in the fatal hit-and-run of a nine-year-old boy.
NORTHERN Territory police are investigating the deaths of a man and a woman who were found in a house on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
DARWIN’S largest church was filled to capacity as more than 700 mourners bade farewell to Joshua Hardy.
THE body of a 31-year-old German man has been found in the back of a campervan at Jim Jim Falls in Kakadu National Park.
THE owner of a hot air ballooning company has been charged with manslaughter after a tourist was killed in Alice Springs last year.
NORTHERN Territory PUP leader Alison Anderson says she wants a Senate inquiry to be conducted into political donations.
WAYNE and Theresa Baker, who were among the 298 people killed when MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July, have been remembered at a funeral in Darwin.
A RECOMMENDATION that the regulation of the Ranger uranium mine at Kakadu be comprehensively reviewed will not be acted on by government.
THE NT opposition says Adam Giles did not declare a car gifted to him during the 2012 election campaign as a political donations row continues.
THE NT government has been accused of hiding from public scrutiny and supporting corruption after rescinding a motion to look at political donations.
A MAN who transported 55.6 grams of methamphetamine in his underpants from Sydney to Darwin has been arrested.
A TEENAGE boy who allegedly armed himself with a knife and assaulted a police officer in Darwin has been charged.
INDIGENOUS leaders have paid tribute to Gough Whitlam, who has been described as Australia’s first prime minister for indigenous Australians.
THE Labor Party has held on to the seat of Casuarina in Saturday’s by-election.
THE Northern Territory will launch the first public sex offender register in Australia with a law named in honour of murdered teenager Daniel Morcombe.
A TEENAGER has died and four others flown to hospital after a car crash on the South Australian and Northern Territory border.
THE Children Commissioner says child abuse has been under-reported in the Northern Territory because the administrative process was unclear.
A CONFERENCE held in Alice Springs this week will hear that Australia’s mammal populations are continuing to shrink, with serious consequences.
THE number of Northern Territory child protection investigations rose by 29 per cent during 2013-14 financial year, an inquiry was told.
A FORMER Northern Territory police officer has been accused of failing to properly investigate claims of sex abuse at the Retta Dixon home in Darwin.
A FORMER detective with the NT sex crimes unit told an inquiry a prosecutor did not pursue “all avenues” of the alleged crimes of a carer at Retta Dixon Home.
CARERS at a home for Aboriginal children knew and did nothing for years as their colleague sexually abused their charges, an inquiry has heard.
NT Police say a 14-year-old and two 15-year-old girls stole several vehicles over three days to drag race.
THE NT government has committed $18 million to fight domestic violence and break down its culture of silence.
VOTERS in the NT seat of Casuarina will go to the polls for a by-election on October 18.
THE former head of an Aboriginal organisation that supports victims of domestic violence and sexual assault will stand trial on fraud charges.
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