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| UpdatedQueensland scientists say they have solved an evolutionary riddle spanning 750,000 years that could provide important clues on growing crops in space.
Topics: medical-research, research, university-and-further-education, agricultural-crops, biotechnology, breakthroughs, brisbane-4000, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedOne of the largest class actions in the history of the NT Supreme Court, brought by former residents of a home for Indigenous children in Darwin, will be in court for the first time in mid-November, according to the group's lawyer.
Topics: courts-and-trials, child-abuse, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedSome people call the Melbourne Cup the race that stops the nation, but at a rural Darwin pub, baby crocodiles, turtles and cane toads have punters on the tips of their thongs.
Topics: lifestyle, lifestyle-and-leisure, offbeat, human-interest, berry-springs-0837
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| UpdatedEnvironmentalists call for a freeze on a water extraction licence in Alice Springs, with fears extra use of the aquifer could deplete and contaminate the town's future water supply.
Topics: water-management, water-supply, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedContract musterers are being used on more Northern Territory cattle stations as employment patterns change and the market demands quicker movement of cattle.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, livestock, nt
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| UpdatedFor saltwater crocodiles stuck far from water and waiting for wet season rains, the coming "Godzilla" El Nino could bring a slow death.
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| UpdatedThe sale of iconic Australian pastoral company S. Kidman and Co Ltd is delayed, according to sale advisor Ernst and Young.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, beef-cattle, livestock, rural, agribusiness, australia, wa, sa, nt, qld
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One of Australia's largest live cattle exporters is planning to invest up to $15 million in new quarantine yards near Darwin.
Topics: beef-cattle, agricultural-insurance, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA magistrate sends a convicted sex offender back to jail after he was caught loitering near children at a Darwin playground.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, darwin-0800
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The sale of three Central Australian cattle properties signals increased confidence in the Northern Territory cattle industry.
Topics: beef-cattle, rural, alice-springs-0870, philippines, cobar-2835
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| UpdatedAn official at the richest Aboriginal land trust in Australia appears in court unrepresented and is taken into custody for her part in the misappropriation of $34 million.
Topics: courts-and-trials, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAn Adelaide woman is questioned for a second time over the alleged murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce Pearce.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa, nsw, act, nt
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| UpdatedPeter Garrett, on a book tour in the Northern Territory, says he has no regrets despite not achieving some of the outcomes desperately wanted by communities there.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-music, rock, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA hand-held device which uses near-infrared scanning to measure the dry matter and moisture content of fruit is proving popular in the mango industry.
Topics: rural, crop-harvesting, fruit, food-and-cooking, computers-and-technology, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe pace of house price growth across Australia moderates, with a small rise recorded across the major capital cities last month.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, housing-industry, industry, markets, australia, hobart-7000, darwin-0800, perth-6000, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, canberra-2600
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A project to track buffalo using GPS collars in a bid to better understand the movements of the feral animals, which are a threat native flora and fauna in the Northern Territory, begins.
Topics: pest-management, national-parks, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-technology, jabiru-0886
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| UpdatedHealth authorities scramble to contain an outbreak of syphilis that is believed to have claimed the lives of 10 babies across northern Australia, and begin an education campaign including condom wallets featuring a rugged Aboriginal rodeo rider looking for love.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sexual-health, sexually-transmitted-diseases, broome-6725, nt, wa
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| UpdatedFears are held for the world's biggest concentrated population of carnivorous bladderworts and the threatened Howard River toadlet, as the NT's river flood plains are stripped of sand to feed Darwin's growing demand for concrete.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, mining-rural, howard-springs-0835
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| UpdatedThe enlarged face of a blow up sex doll named Sucka is the first thing to confront the audience walking into the Monster Pop exhibition in Darwin.
Topics: contemporary-art, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedTwo men are dead after a four-wheel drive carrying 11 mango harvest workers crashed on the Northern Territory's main highway.
Topics: death, accidents, katherine-0850
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| UpdatedThe NT Deputy Chief Minister Willem Westra van Holthe denies he misused taxpayer money to court his new partner during a business trip to Vietnam, after his marital breakdown became public on Facebook.
Topics: social-media, government-and-politics, katherine-0850
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| UpdatedJournalists staking out the house of an Adelaide woman questioned over the alleged murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter, Khandalyce Pearce, are pelted with eggs by her boyfriend.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa, nsw, act, nt
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| UpdatedPeople of the Aboriginal community of Wurrumiyanga on the Tiwi Islands rally against domestic violence, with a local police officer confessing the toll "wears us down".
Topics: domestic-violence, indigenous-culture, nt
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| UpdatedAn ex-girlfriend of the man accused of killing mother Karlie Pearce-Stevenson leaves an Adelaide police station after being questioned for several hours about the alleged murders of Ms Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa, nsw, act, nt
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| UpdatedThe horrific details of two fatal crocodile attacks emerge from inquests into the deaths of two recreational fishermen killed in the Northern Territory last year.
Topics: animal-attacks, crocodile, jabiru-0886