Traditional owners in the remote community of Wadeye have blamed economic decline, collapsing services and the coronavirus pandemic for an outbreak of unrest that has seen at least 37 homes burned and hundreds of residents forced to flee to the bush.
Yuendumu elders have blasted the NT Labor government’s budget announcement of the ‘biggest ever spend’ on policing.
Traditional owners sue NT Labor minister over ‘seriously irrational’ decision to grant free-water licence to Chinese firm.
Pastoralist Sarah Cook thinks of herself as a swing voter with progressive values. But at this election, she’s likely to back Coalition candidate Damien Ryan.
Top End Anzac Day Dawn Service told of heroism and self-sacrifice.
The outback hamlet of 11 people and their internecine feuds have captivated us. Now we’re closer to knowing whether it also harbours a killer.
NT coroner refers suspected death of missing Larrimah resident Patrick “Paddy” to Director of Public Prosecutions.
Police secretly recorded a suspect in the disappearance of Patrick Moriarty saying he ‘killerated old Paddy … smacked him on the nostrils with a claw hammer’.
Both sides of politics in the NT have signed on to a landmark seven-year Aboriginal Justice Agreement that aims to cut incarceration rates.
The NT’s anti-corruption watchdog will investigate ‘allegations of improper conduct’ related to the murder charge police unsuccessfully brought against constable Zachary Rolfe.
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