Neda Vanovac is a journalist and digital producer at ABC Darwin. She was formerly the Northern Territory correspondent for Australian Associated Press for more than three years until November 2016, reporting on nationally significant stories in the Top End and Central Australia, and from across the region including Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines. Her work has been syndicated in publications all across Australia and internationally.
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| UpdatedThe Top End is in for more wild weather as the Katherine River reaches flood levels, and a crocodile is spotted attacking a suburban bin and escaping into a street drain.
Topics: weather, floods, storm-event, nt, darwin-0800, palmerston-0830
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| UpdatedThe isolated Aboriginal community of Groote Eylandt left reeling after a recent spate of suicides, will benefit from a $10 million boost to funding for a support service.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, suicide, mental-health, youth, australia, wa, nt, sa
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| UpdatedProfessor Simon Maddocks says CDU is a "strong, credible institution" and university completion data does not paint the full picture of challenges faced by the sector in the Northern Territory.
Topics: adult-education, university-and-further-education, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA former NT government staffer who was found guilty in October last year on two counts of corruptly receiving benefits from travel agent Xana Kamitsis will walk free from court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe author of a book about the 1980 disappearance of baby Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru says Australia owed her father Michael an apology for the ensuing public and legal circus that left a dark mark on his life.
Topics: death, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, nt
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| UpdatedAlmost 20 years after the Japanese bombed Darwin, a Japanese crew returned to the city to salvage the ships sunk by their countrymen.
Topics: world-war-2, community-and-society, unrest-conflict-and-war, darwin-0800, japan
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After playing as the sole girl on male teams, Tabatha Saville says the standard of women's cricket is higher than that of the men's.
Topics: cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, alice-springs-0870, nt
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| UpdatedNT police searching for two men suspected of killing a cyclist in Darwin on New Year's Eve spot and then lose the suspects' car after a chase on Monday during which a patrol car is hit and an officer almost run over.
Topics: accidents, road, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, darwin-0800, nightcliff-0810, winnellie-0820, coconut-grove-0810
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| UpdatedFormer NT chief minister Stephen Hatton says when his Cabinet decided to inquire into the Chamberlain convictions they "didn't believe the dingo story, but we didn't believe Lindy should be in jail for murder".
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, animal-attacks, alice-springs-0870, nt, yulara-0872, darwin-0800
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| Updated53 people are set to spend a fourth night sleeping in a school in the remote Northern Territory community of Kintore following flooding in the area, and it could be several days more before they can go home.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, weather, nt, alice-springs-0870, kintore-0872
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| UpdatedA man and woman are being treated at the Kintore clinic after walking 58km when their vehicle became stranded by floodwaters for three days.
Topics: weather, floods, disasters-and-accidents, kintore-0872, nt, australia
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| UpdatedA tourist who was reportedly trapped in a car which washed off a causeway at Hugh River near Alice Springs is found safe, NT Police say, while a baby is among six people missing since Christmas Day.
Topics: weather, rainfall, floods, disasters-and-accidents, storm-event, kintore-0872, alice-springs-0870, wa, nt
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| UpdatedHeavy rain that has sparked damaging flash floods and widespread evacuations in Central Australia is being described as a once-in-a-half-century weather event by the Bureau of Meteorology.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, storm-disaster, weather, storm-event, kintore-0872, nt, yulara-0872, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedA 26-year-old male is in a critical but stable condition after his arm was amputated below the shoulder when he tried to hitch a ride on a freight train in Alice Springs.
Topics: accidents, rail, police, disasters-and-accidents, alice-springs-0870, nt
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| UpdatedInflammatory rhetoric used by the previous Northern Territory government to demonise young offenders created a political space that allowed young people to be assaulted in detention, a criminal lawyer says.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, darwin-0800, nt, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedDylan Voller's former case worker tells the royal commission that adversarial and judgemental case workers compounded the young detainee's problems, and the system failed to give him the support he needed.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, youth, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, darwin-0800, nt, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedDylan Voller speaks publicly for the first time about his experience in youth detention, telling a royal commission being hooded in a restraint chair and tear-gassed are the scariest things to have ever happened to him.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, youth, darwin-0800, nt
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The Northern Territory's abortion laws are being brought into line with the rest of the country, as the Government moves to legalise use of abortion drugs outside hospitals along with a suite of other changes that are being heralded as respecting women's choices.
Topics: abortion, reproduction-and-contraception, womens-health, government-and-politics, laws, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedRoyal commissioners have rejected the NT Government's attempt to vacate the rest of December hearings, after it argued it did not have time to prepare.
Topics: child-abuse, youth, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, royal-commissions, nt, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAurelie Chorier, the wife of a French tourist killed at a roadside stop in the NT outback, has left hospital.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, death, police, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedA man is arrested after a French tourist was stabbed to death at a rest stop in front of his wife in the Northern Territory outback.
Topics: death, murder-and-manslaughter, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedA quarter of NT maths students fail to meet minimum standards, as a new report shows their outcomes are going backwards.
Topics: mathematics-education, education, schools, government-and-politics, science-and-technology, nt
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The Northern Territory government wants to close a loophole in liquor legislation to limit sales of takeaway alcohol on Sundays.
Topics: alcohol, government-and-politics, social-policy, community-and-society, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedMichael Gunner says he has confidence in Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw, who has launched a new inquiry into a historic allegation of rape within the police force.
Topics: police, sexual-offences, government-and-politics, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe number of reports of children at risk of harm in the Northern Territory has more than doubled in five years, a new report finds.
Topics: children, government-and-politics, darwin-0800, nt