Jacqueline Breen is a cross media reporter in the ABC's Darwin newsroom. She travelled north after working in Broken Hill in the dusty far west of New South Wales, and before that in the Sydney newsroom. You can follow her on Twitter at @Jacqueline_E_B
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The group behind a brazen new slogan say they've been inundated with interest and hope to boost visitor numbers in the Territory.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, social-media, offbeat, human-interest, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedResearchers say 'unrealistic optimism' keeps us from getting a cyclone kit together, and there are cultural characteristics at play as well.
Topics: cyclones, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, storm-disaster, psychology, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThey've seen crocs, racism, cyclones and hippies. Could the Lameroo Baths be back a century after they were built?
Topics: historians, discrimination, aboriginal, urban-development-and-planning, human-interest, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedIn a surprise twist to an already unexpected result, Nhulunbuy's independent Yolngu politician Yingiya Mark Guyula might yet lose his seat in the Court of Disputed Returns. But how would that work, and how did it come to this?
Topics: elections, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nhulunbuy-0880, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedNauiyu schoolchildren have their artwork featured as part of a special exhibition in Darwin.
Topics: contemporary-art, art-and-creativity, painting, floods, indigenous-culture, darwin-0800, daly-river-0822
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| UpdatedArchival photographs capture the early days of an event that began with a feminist bonfire.
Topics: women, sexual-offences, feminism, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedFive months after a mechanic found Kalamata curled too close to a car engine, he (or she) has made a full recovery.
Topics: reptiles, animals, veterinary-medicine, offbeat, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAs the Top End prepares for cyclone season, we catch up with a meteorologist who has weathered her fair share of storms.
Topics: cyclone, people, weather, darwin-0800, fiji
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| UpdatedFor the first time, young police officers visit Darwin's Bagot community as part of their cultural awareness training.
Topics: domestic-violence, police, aboriginal, darwin-0800
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Residents in the Barkly say the new satellite system at the Tennant Creek weather station isn't accurately recording rainfall.
Topics: rainfall, agricultural-policy, agricultural-machinery, weather, tennant-creek-0860
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Family and friends say goodbye to Bas Wie, who, at the height of the White Australia policy, tumbled unconscious from beneath a plane just landed on the Darwin tarmac.
Topics: people, immigration, human-interest, darwin-0800
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Portraits of a pilot and his parrot, a tattooed ornithologist and a rooster named Elvis light up one of the many empty shopfronts in downtown Darwin.
Topics: photography, fine-art-photography, street-art, people, human-interest, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedJust days before civil action is due to get underway, the newly elected NT Government appears willing to settle out of court with teenagers who were tear-gassed while in Darwin's youth detention centre.
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| UpdatedWith some seats still on a knife edge, Labor leader Michael Gunner has been officially proclaimed the 11th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, elections, darwin-0800, nt
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A woman accused of robbing a man after spiking his drink at Darwin's casino had actually sold him drugs and kept his phone as collateral for the debt, a court hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA Larrakia man says Aboriginal people have been fishing in Darwin's Rapid Creek unaware there were concerns about contamination.
Topics: environmental-health, defence-forces, darwin-0800