Territory Labor will not be supporting a controversial petition calling for the suspension of gender transition treatment for children. But the CLP declined to reveal its position.
The US military build-up in northern Australia is becoming an increasing “threat” to Beijing, says a former deputy ambassador to China, who believes we are being set up as the canary in the coal mine.
NT health has told the union to rein in medical staff who planned a protest against Health Minister Steve Edgington, leaked emails have revealed, prompting concerns of overreach from the department.
A new multipurpose service centre in the Roper Gulf community will include a government service hub, child and family centre and renal dialysis clinic helping patients access lifesaving treatment closer to home. Here’s what to expect.
A former Darwin councillor will wait until January to learn his fate after making a final bid to contest multiple domestic violence offences, allegedly committed against his ex-girlfriend.
‘Some people have bigger dreams, she had those’: The matriarch of the Tiwi sistergirls and a Territory celebrity has mourned the loss of her daughter following an alleged domestic violence stabbing.
Nuisance public drinkers could be arrested and fined more than $900 under new laws to be introduced by the NT government.
The NT Attorney-General said Territorians were right to be concerned about access to justice, while suggesting Legal Aid might be sitting on millions of dollars of unused funds.
The Country Liberal Party will urgently pass a range of law and order reforms when parliament sits next week. Here’s the one that has victims of crime worried.
A Darwin supermarket has welcomed new laws after the store was allegedly targeted in a ram raid, which caused thousands of dollars worth of damage. WATCH THE VIDEO.
The NT government’s plan to give police greater stop and search powers, including the authority to enter schools to wand children for knives, is ‘a worrying sign of policy without evidence’, advocates warn.
Presumption against bail will be expanded to all serious violent crimes under new laws expected to pass next week, despite no plan locked in for where the extra prisoners will be kept.
Confidential documents show the Commonwealth did not believe Rio Tinto would back a fight against Territory Traditional Owners who are pushing to expand Kakadu National Park.
A judge said he was being kept up at night by the thought of leaving Territorians — who have the right to the presumption of innocence — in crowded cells, with no access to their lawyers. See why people are being ‘denied access to basic justice’.
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