Not just wear and tear: $1.3m Howard Springs damage bill revealed
Treasurer Bill Yan has revealed taxpayers stumped up a ‘staggering’ $12.7m to house flood evacuees at Howard Springs for two months last year.
Politics
‘Anti-democratic’: NT Major projects could sidestep legal protections
The proposed Territory Controller’s powers have been labelled ‘profoundly anti-democratic’ and if accepted may allow politicians to side step regulations and override government agencies.
Commonwealth to pay record-breaking fine for Kakadu sacred site breach
Gunlom Falls could reopen to the public next year as Kakadu traditional owners start the process of ‘healing’ after a five-year battle with the Commonwealth.
Commonwealth guilty of Kakadu sacred site ‘violation’
Kakadu custodians share their grief over a sacred site breach which has closed a beloved waterfall for five years. ‘I want that spirit of my ancestors to be happy’.
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‘Flogging a dead seahorse’: Keating’s blistering AUKUS attack
The former Prime Minister has given a scathing review of the government’s submarine planes, raising concerns over Australia’s military autonomy as high-level meetings take place.
How you can cash in on nation-leading NT home buyers scheme
The ‘most generous home build scheme in the country’ will open in the Territory next week, offering grants of up to $50k to people wanting to put down roots in the NT.
Senator’s death in custody win despite Labor opposition
Non-government senators banded together to force the Commonwealth to provide quarterly reports on deaths, self-harm, miscarriages and stillbirths in prisons.
More pay for fewer students in NT classroom shake-up
Average class sizes in the NT are set to decrease as the government re-commits to upholding a pay deal that aims to reduce teachers’ workloads and make Territory educators the highest paid in the country.
Cost of Tamboran gas deal won’t be released, govt confirms
Despite the CLP’s promise to release details of major gas deal ‘if it could’, the cost to Territorians will remain a secret. One group estimates it could be as much as $3.6bn.
What to expect when NT parliament returns next month
The first time the Territory’s new government will sit in parliament has been confirmed. Here is what’s on the agenda for the CLP, opposition and crossbench.
Climate change risks thrown out in Top End fracking appeal
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.
‘All about balance’: Education on the line without croc permits
Banning permits for pet crocs is not just a problem for keepers, but represents another ‘freedom being taken away’ from Territorians, one wrangler says.
Territorians left to ‘rot on remand’
Territorians who are fighting charges against them are spending on average 100 days behind bars waiting to clear their names. Here’s why legal experts say our justice system is ‘buckling’.
‘Go back to Victoria’: Chief and protesters clash over gas
‘You are wasting your time’: The Chief Minister has told anti-gas protesters who crashed a major resources convention they are not welcome in the NT.
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