NT court to decide Beetaloo land access dispute
The Northern Territory Supreme Court will rule on the validity of a tribunal-ordered access agreement between warring Beetaloo Basin pastoralists and gas explorers.
Amos Aikman
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Visions of the future enabled a lifetime serving primary industry
Apparently destined to be a shopkeeper, a science teacher set Laurence Ah Toy on the path to university and an important role in the Northern Territory.
‘Model prisoner’ killed ex-partner
A coroner in the Northern Territory has recommended stricter supervision of violent offenders after a man believed by authorities to be a model prisoner was able to stalk, kidnap and fatally injure his ex-partner while he was out on parole.
‘Epidemic of violence’ plagues women: judge
Bush women are enduring years of drunken, jealous violence inflicted by ‘hopeless’ men, only to be killed in the company of bystanders who did not try to help.
‘He comes and finds me … and then he hurts me’
Gary Andy is an ‘ugly man’, a ‘bad man’ who beat Patricia savagely using ‘animal-like’ violence. He punched her. He bit her. He hit her with a burning stick.
Man arrested over leg on highway
A man allegedly hit and killed an Aboriginal woman near Darwin, then enlisted a female accomplice to try and hide the body.
Human leg found on NT highway
Police are searching for the owner of a leg found on the side of the Stuart Highway outside Darwin after what is believed to have been a grisly, unreported hit-and-run incident.
‘Historic opportunity’ to tackle domestic violence
The election of three Indigenous women to federal parliament from the NT provided a historic opportunity to address violence against women and children in remote communities, the Chief Minister says.
Bilbies, bettongs return to Red Centre
A patter of tiny feet will soon be felt over the arid plains of Central Australia as bilbies and burrowing bettongs return to Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary.
Tamboran fracking battle heats up
Gas company Tamboran Resources looks set to become the first Beetaloo Basin explorer to begin fracking activities on a Northern Territory pastoral property without the pastoralists’ consent.
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