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**This picture has a scanned reverse - see associated content at the bottom of the details window**Douglas Crabbe, convicted of murder after driving his road train into the Inland Motel bar at Ayers Rock in 1983. Five people died. Scenes, witnesses, etc.

Mass murderer in a Mack truck

THE truck hit the wall like a bomb going off; 25 tonnes of metal smashing into a pub at high speed. Five people would die, but the driver just smiled as he stepped over a survivor and ran into the night.

Northern Territory
Jordan Kolsky is one of an estimated 200 Jewish people who call the NT home. Kolsky holds a loaf of Challah bread which is usually braided and typically eaten on ceremonial occasions such as Sabbath and major Jewish holidays.Picture: Keri Megelus

Living in isolation

LIVING as a religious Jew in the Northern Territory remains a formidable — even impossible — challenge for some. But a Jewish community is slowly forming, writes HAYDEN SMITH

Northern Territory
NT News Archive Photo:  Pic1...Max Ortmann wraps a microphone lead around the neck of ABC Journalist Jeremy Thompson 12/8/1993

Top 10 NT scandals

THE sordid details revealed during former Police Commissioner John McRoberts’s trial are the talk of the town. We have uncovered a list of scandals that managed to shock even long-term Territorians. Here are our top 10

Northern Territory
Palmerston Hospital General Manager Catherine O'Connell poses for a photo in one of the many courtyards at the new hospital site.Picture: Justin Kennedy

The long road to health

THE glass doors of the Palmerston Regional Hospital will soon open and Territorians will have access to their first new public hospital in 40 years, writes LAUREN ROBERTS

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Senior First Constable First Class Rhys Studders, Detective Sergeant Michael Ordelman, Acting Superintendent Road Policing Drew Slape and Detective Acting Sergeant Jeshua Kelly discuss the impact that car crashes have on first responders at the Road Policing Centre in Darwin.   Picture: Keri Megelus

Drive to survive

NT Police road police Acting Superintendent Drew Slape just wants people to understand being killed in a car crash could happen to them

Special feature
MVA at Berry Springs, one man has died and a female driver is in critical condition after a head on 45 minutes south of Darwin.

Picking up the pieces

IN LESS than four months, 18 people have died on Territory roads. Now first responders are pleading with motorists to take more care. JUDITH AISTHORPE reports

Special feature
NT News special feature. 20 years on from the murder of Stinky Bill Mason

Part II: The mystery continues

IN the far corner of a grassy back block at Humpty Doo sits the warped carcass of “Stinky” Bill Mason’s caravan, a grim monument to the day, twenty years ago on Monday, that evil came to visit

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