CLOSING the gap in Aboriginal disadvantage will never be achieved in the Northern Territory’s 500 homeland communities unless the federal Government immediately renegotiates an agreement struck last year with the NT Government that condemns Aborigines living at outstations to desperate poverty.
ABORIGINAL leader Patrick Dodson has launched an extraordinary attack on a trio of prominent, fellow indigenous leaders.
JAPANESE company Inpex will build a gas plant at Darwin Harbour in a $23 billion investment.
THREE Indonesian fishermen acquitted of illegally taking fish from the seabed of the continental shelf between Australia and Indonesia are suing Canberra for compensation.
THE Nine Network is on the verge of clinching a deal with indigenous-owned Imparja Television to sell its Darwin operations.
YOUNG Dion Beasley, disabled and profoundly deaf, has emerged as an illustrator with an assured style and sensitive eye.
THE right of Aboriginal landowners in the Northern Territory to control who fishes in coastal waters has been upheld in the High Court.
AN Australian soldier in East Timor shot himself in the head after a “dressing-down” by a superior, a military inquiry has heard.
ROYAL Darwin Hospital is preparing its intensive care unit to receive injured East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta.
AUBREY Lynch believes sorry is the word many of his people should hear, but the pragmatic Wangai elder would also like to see them share in the prosperity of their traditional country; the booming goldfields 600km east of Perth.
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