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TOPSHOT - This screen grab made from UGC handout video footage courtesy of Timothy Brant-Coles shows two gunmen dressed in black firing multiple shots on a bridge at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. Australian police said two people were in custody following reports of multiple gunshots on December 14 at Sydney's famed Bondi Beach, urging the public to take shelter. (Photo by Handout / various sources / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

‘Foreseeable’: NT senator Jacinta Price condemns Bondi terrorist attack killing 16

The Territory’s CLP senator Jacinta Price has condemned the terrorist attack on more than 1000 Jews celebrating Hanukka at Sydney’s Bondi Beach resulting in at least 16 deaths and a further 40 injured.

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NT business leader gets new key role to build on US-Aust relations

A renowned Territory business leader will help lead efforts to strengthen ties between Australia and the US at a pivotal moment in the alliance. Read all about it.

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Darwin councillor Ed Smelt as the Jingili Water Gardens Footbridge, located in Darwin, Northern Territory, reopened to the public after being closed for months, Friday, October 3, 2025. Picture: Thomas McLean

New speed limits aim to make Darwin roads safer

Darwin has cut speed limits on key roads from 60km/h to 50km/h despite commuter concerns, with a councillor claiming the change will save lives.

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Darwin prepaid taxi fares are to be expanded

Stamping out fare evasion: Prepaid taxi fares expanded in NT

Prepaid taxi fare arrangements are being expanded with the Finocchiaro Government saying it will help to stamp out fare evasion and provide more protections and certainty to taxi drivers.

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Golden hour over the CBD by Matty Schiller. Northern exposure aug 10

Darwin Esplanade’s heritage fate faces new public vote

The Heritage Council has launched fresh public consultation on The Esplanade’s heritage status after a successful court appeal derailed the original process. Read the details.

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Corrections Minister Gerard Maley tours the horticulture skill and training facility at Holtze, which is expected to form part of a new prison work camp slated for Darwin. Pic: Supplied.

200-bed prison work camp slated for Darwin

The NT government has announced design work for a new 200-bed Darwin work camp, a week after a similar plan was revealed for Katherine. Find out where.

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NT Health Minister Steve Edgington slams the Prime Minister's letter on curbing hospital growth.

NT minister slams ‘unfair’ health funding deal

The Territory government will use a national meeting of health ministers this week to continue lobbying the Commonwealth for more funding, claiming a $400m hole in the budget.

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Police & Courts

Jake Phillip Danby, 23, leaves the Darwin Local Court on June 25, 2024 where he stands charged with hit-and-run driving causing death, speeding and driving unlicensed. Picture: Jason Walls

Driver’s ‘vile’ texts allegedly reveal ‘racist’ motive in fatal hit and run

NT Prosecutors say a NT driver’s ‘racist’ texts about his Aboriginal victims had ‘shocked the public consciousness’, but his defence lawyer said his young client should not be locked up ‘based upon their stupidity or the repugnancy of their ideas’. Read the latest here.

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Western Australia's Police Minister Paul Papalia is overhauling the state's gun laws for the first time in 50 years. Picture: Supplied.

United Nations unable to access WA or NT youth detention facilities

Only one place in Australia has confirmed it allowed United Nations inspectors into their youth detention facilities, with both WA and the NT stating ‘safety issues’ prevented visits. Read the latest here.

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Northern Territory Treasure Bill Yan at the Alice Springs Motor Vehicle Registry on Tuesday, December 31, 2024. Picture: Gera Kazakov

CLP pulls the plug on plans to sting high use energy households

‘Not the right time to be slugging Territorians’: Thousands of NT households have dodged a Christmas power bill punch after the government axed tariff increases that would have hit super users.

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Northern Territory

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Hendry proves Curious Minds can go a long way

Two students from Nightcliff Middle School have joined their peers from across Australia at the prestigious national Curious Minds summer camp in Canberra, with fellow Territorians from O’Loughlin Catholic College and The Essington School.

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Julie Fraser attended the local court for the Lee Point defence housing development. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Motion sickness: Darwin councillor votes against own proposal after tweak

A Darwin councillor’s motion backfired when an amendment forced her to cast the sole vote against her own proposal at last Tuesday’s council meeting. Read the details.

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Northern Territory

NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage in Yuendumu about to deliver the findings into the Kumanjayi Walker inquest, July 7, 2025. Picture: Gera Kazakov

Bias complaint against NT coroner dismissed by Judicial Commission

The Northern Territory’s Judicial Commission has dismissed a complaint against a coroner, who delivered findings in front of the banner of an activist group that had called for a police officer to be speared.

Gerard Maley Deputy Chief Minister as Members of the Northern Territory Police Force, Australian Federal Police, and Australian Border Force came together in the Darwin CBD for National Police Remembrance Day on Monday, September 29, 2025 to pay tribute to their fallen comrades. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

‘Shameful act of evasion’: NT condemned for blocking UN access

The NT Government has claimed allowing United Nations experts into the prisons would jeopardise staff safety, but opponents say this is a blatant excuse to shield human rights violations from public scrutiny.

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