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Nick Kyrgios has accused Pat Rafter of being negative in response to Bernard Tomic's post-match outburst after his third-round Wimbledon exit.
Topics: tennis, sport, darwin-0800, nt, australia
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A Million Dollar Fish competition is the centrepiece of a new campaign by the Northern Territory Government to lure tourists to the Top End during the low season.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, fishing-aquaculture, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedChildren as young as 12 are testing positive for syphilis in an outbreak of the disease affecting young Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, new data reveals.
Topics: sexually-transmitted-diseases, nt
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| UpdatedDarwin's Beer Can Regatta has sparked a small but passionate number of enthusiasts with in-depth knowledge in the craft of making boats out of cans.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, charities-and-community-organisations, offbeat, human-interest, darwin-0800
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A truck clipped a sedan travelling beside it at high speed, sending the smaller vehicle careering across two lanes and over a large embankment during Darwin's peak hour traffic, major crash investigators believe.
Topics: road, winnellie-0820
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| UpdatedA deserted beach south-west of Darwin is "under attack" in an exercise involving United States Marines and Japanese and Australian soldiers.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, nt
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| UpdatedSailors and soldiers prepare for an amphibious landing near Darwin as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre, the largest ever exercise involving Australia and the United States.
Topics: navy, army, darwin-0800
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Indigenous elders have led about 700 people on a march through Darwin to celebrate NAIDOC Week.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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A coroner has "encouraged" the Northern Territory's Department of Health to consider whether legislative change is needed to help medical staff treating anorexia sufferers who are hospitalised against their will.
Topics: eating-disorders, courts-and-trials, alice-springs-0870
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High domestic cattle prices are making it viable for Top End pastoralists to send their heavier stock all the way to Victoria.
Topics: rural, road-transport, road, beef-cattle, darwin-0800, warrnambool-3280
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The Northern Territory's Treasurer Dave Tollner wants all political donations in the Territory to be banned and for taxpayers to fund election campaigns instead.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, darwin-0800
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The women's centre in Wadeye is a hive of activity, as local women and children sort through piles of Kakadu plum that have been freshly picked from around the region.
Topics: rural, women-in-agriculture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, bush-tucker, wadeye-0822
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A block of community purpose land near the centre of Darwin is rezoned for a controversial residential development amid community outcry.
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government and traditional owners are calling for investors to propose tourism projects around Uluru to reverse a 20 per cent decline in visitors over 10 years.
Topics: tourism, travel-and-tourism, rural-tourism, nt
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| UpdatedKazakhstan's Davis Cup tennis captain refuses to comment on the recent Kyrgios tanking allegations, saying "you have to look at the grass in your own backyard".
Topics: tennis, sport, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA woman who was only 30 kilograms when she died in Alice Springs in January had developed a deep distrust of the medical profession due to a series of forced admissions to hospital, a coronial inquest hears.
Topics: eating-disorders, mental-health, courts-and-trials, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedA musical animation aimed at educating Indigenous people about the danger of saltwater crocodiles goes viral.
Topics: animation, graphic, short-film, music, safety-education, animal-attacks, crocodile, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedToll Group will appeal to the Australia Competition Tribunal the consumer watchdog's decision to oppose the sale of Toll's Northern Territory sea transport assets to rival Sea Swift.
Topics: sea-transport, darwin-0800
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The Northern Territory Government is concerned legislation governing the protection of children does not clearly prioritise between family placements and the best interests of the child.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, child-abuse, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedNine days into the third quarter of 2015 and there are still no permits to export cattle to Indonesia.
Topics: rural, trade, beef-cattle, darwin-0800, indonesia
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| UpdatedA tenacious job hunter in the Northern Territory takes to the streets and finds success through a unique combination of a tin sign, social media and the kindness of strangers.
Topics: unemployment, economic-trends, building-and-construction, darwin-0800
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Since August last year only three Designated Area Migration Agreements have been granted for the whole of the Northern Territory, with employers complaining red tape is slowing the process.
Topics: immigration, industrial-relations, government-and-politics, nt
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| UpdatedSenator for the Northern Territory, Nigel Scullion, has apologised to the people of Tennant Creek for his original support of the closure of the local weather radar.
Topics: rural, weather, internet-technology, federal-government, alice-springs-0870, tennant-creek-0860
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| UpdatedA Darwin man who parked his car on top of his love rival's vehicle and then posted a photo on Facebook tells the court "it wasn't my intention to take it that far".
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA $4.5 million centre created to train Indigenous workers for the INPEX gas plant and launched with much fanfare in 2011 is quietly closed down.
Topics: indigenous-policy, oil-and-gas, darwin-0800