Wood sides with Labor to avert NT poll
LABOR will hold on to power in the Northern Territory after independent member for Nelson Gerry Wood sided with the Government.
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Tiwi Islanders feel short-changed
THE alliance of building companies in charge of delivering housing on the Tiwi Islands has told the Aboriginal community of Nguiu it will receive fewer than one-third of the houses originally promised by the federal government.
Miracle of correspondence underground
UNDERNEATH a fibro house in the beachside southern stretches of Sydney dubbed “God’s country”, my grandfather has created a den.
MP accused of running own agenda
FORMER Labor minister Alison Anderson has called for GST grants to the Northern Territory to be tied to indigenous outcomes.
Building their own homes is future
ABORIGINAL leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu has questioned the federal and Northern Territory governments’ ability to achieve their ambitious goals in Aboriginal housing and has urged indigenous people in northeast Arnhem Land to build their own houses instead.
Ten years of waiting
ROBYN Wanambi is sick of talking.
Labor hangs on as minister quits
THE Northern Territory government was clinging to power last night after a renegade Aboriginal minister quit the Labor Party’s “rotten machine”.
Labor rule in doubt as Anderson quits
LABOR’S rule in the Northern Territory is all but over after Indigenous Affairs Minister Alison Anderson resigned this morning.
70pc of indigenous housing fund eroded
NT government ministers have been told that the federal government’s $673m remote housing package could deliver as few as 300 houses.
Swine flu medics in dash to township
AN emergency medical response crew will today rush antiviral drugs and masks to the isolated indigenous community that was home to the first swine flu sufferer to die in Australia.
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