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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.
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CSIRO research director for onshore gas Dr Damian Barrett says it is quite common for methane gas to leak from water bores.
Topics: oil-and-gas, environmental-impact, environmental-management, mining-environmental-issues, water-pollution, water-management, environmental-health, mining-rural, beef-cattle, daly-waters-0852, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedGas emitting from a water bore on a cattle station is likely to be naturally occurring, according to a CSIRO scientist.
Topics: oil-and-gas, environmental-impact, environmental-management, mining-environmental-issues, water-pollution, water-management, environmental-health, mining-rural, daly-waters-0852, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedIndigenous leader Andrea Mason, who leads an organisation giving a voice to 3000 women in a remote part of the Northern Territory, is named the NT's Australian of the Year.
Topics: nt, darwin-0800, katherine-0850, alice-springs-0870
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The Alice Springs cattle yards see $12.5 million worth of sales pass through this year.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, agricultural-prices, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedJanet Inyika, who led the fight to introduce Opal fuel as petrol sniffing devastated her beloved Aboriginal communities, reflects on her triumphant campaign directed at the Federal Government.
Topics: health, adolescent-health, drug-use, addictive, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedA man who was forced to share a ride for 10 hours with a deadly mulga snake says the incident occurred after he and a co-worker tried to be "environmentally friendly" and usher the large reptile off the road, before it shot towards their car.
Topics: animals, weird-and-wonderful, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedCompetition is heating up between outback tycoons and Gina Rinehart in the race to buy the Kidman cattle empire, which covers 1.3 per cent of the country.
Topics: beef-cattle, cattle-feedlots, food-and-beverage, agribusiness, woomera-5720, tennant-creek-0860, fitzroy-crossing-6765, alice-springs-0870, innamincka-5731, longreach-4730
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Two men have had a nervous 500-kilometre journey to Alice Springs after they saw one of Australia's deadliest snakes crawl into the engine of their car shortly before they headed off.
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| UpdatedTwo men have a nervous 500-kilometre journey to Alice Springs after seeing one of Australia's deadliest snakes crawl into the engine of their car shortly before heading off.
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| UpdatedA former juvenile detainee says she feels relieved after speaking to the Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Child Protection in the Northern Territory.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, alice-springs-0870, nt, australia
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| UpdatedThe federal MP for the sprawling seat of Lingiari will open a third electorate office, this time in Katherine, despite there already being three local ALP offices in the small town and admitting he would rarely be there.
Topics: federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, alp, nt, katherine-0850, alice-springs-0870
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A touring Questacon science circus is bringing science to kids in the bush. They recently turned a studio at the Alice Springs School of the Air into a science laboratory for the day. Read more
Topics: distance-education, rural-youth, science, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedThe survival of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory depends on the royal commission into youth detention acting on its findings and not just talking about the issues, a social justice advocate says.
Topics: royal-commissions, aboriginal, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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Green grass and high cattle prices reignite confidence in western Queensland's beef industry.
Topics: beef-cattle, agricultural-prices, agricultural-marketing, rural-youth, rural-media, livestock, blackall-4472, alice-springs-0870, longreach-4730, blackwater-4717
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Topics: rural, beef-cattle, agricultural-prices, agricultural-marketing, rural-youth, rural-media, livestock, blackall-4472, alice-springs-0870
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Ken McKenzie from Yaralla stud, Blackwater; Dean Allen from Western Red Droughtmasters near Longreach and Andy Hayes from The Garden station near Alice Springs discuss the season, bulls and cattle prices.
Topics: beef-cattle, agricultural-prices, agricultural-marketing, rural-youth, rural-media, livestock, blackall-4472, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedThree people with stab wounds to the neck are flown to hospital in Alice Springs after an attack at a home in Tennant Creek.
Topics: police, tennant-creek-0860, alice-springs-0870, sa
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A trial exploring the capabilities of seven garlic varieties in the red centre shows some early positive results.
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, alice-springs-0870
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A Territory legal service that represents women who have problems at work is at risk of closing its doors in January due to federal funding changes.
Topics: women, community-and-society, work, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedA man in prison in Alice Springs for assaulting his wife is sentenced to an extra six years in jail after injuring her while on a day release program.
Topics: courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, alice-springs-0870
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The world's first Aboriginal Australian-language video game is being developed in a bid to preserve traditional language and culture.
Topics: aboriginal-language, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, games-industry, kids-games-and-links, internet-culture, human-interest, canberra-2600, act, australian-national-university-0200, wa, nt, alice-springs-0870, kalgoorlie-6430