Emilia Terzon
Emilia Terzon is the Multiplatform Reporter at 105.7 ABC Darwin. She worked as a business reporter after graduating, and then left Sydney to report in Nepal. She spent the next few years as a freelancer for media outlets like AAP and VICE, hosted a feminist community radio show, and reported from India and East Africa. Emilia joined the ABC in 2014, allowing her to blend a love of storytelling and broadcast media.
Should the Top End revive traditional mining towns?
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The rise of FIFO workers in one of the Northern Territory's last surviving mining towns has led unionists to call for drastic measures, however some experts say a golden era is clearly over.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, regional-development, people, community-and-society, nt, darwin-0800
Unique student-staffed school cafe celebrates 10 years
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Darwin Middle School marks 10 years of hands-on learning with its school canteen program that sees year nine students run the show.
Topics: secondary-schools, hospitality, youth, human-interest, darwin-0800
Calls for caps on FIFO workers amid concerns about NT mining town
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There are calls for limits on FIFO workers amid concerns that one of the NT's few surviving mining towns is losing the last of its residential workers.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, unions, federal---state-issues, human-interest, community-and-society, industrial-relations, nt
Simple lunchbox tips for children and teens of different ages
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For many parents dealing with children's foibles and independent teenagers, no meal can be quite as difficult as the humble school lunch.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, children, adolescent-health, primary-schools, public-schools, secondary-schools, darwin-0800
Cat overload at Darwin animal shelters amid monsoon rains
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It is raining cats and kittens at Darwin animal shelters, as a heavy monsoon season see stray felines flee their storm drain homes.
Topics: animals, weather, darwin-0800
Darwin's storm surfers welcome annual monsoon
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The north of Australia is not usually associated with surfing, however as little as a few weeks a year, a small yet passionate community surfs "the most mellow vibe" in Darwin.
Topics: surfing, sport, cyclone, weather, storm-event, darwin-0800
Shock, grief, hope: One family's spinal muscular atrophy journey
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For many years, Australian parents of infants diagnosed with an extremely rare and devastating genetic disease have been left with little hope, however that could change with a new treatment dubbed "ground-breaking".
Topics: genetic-disorders, infant-health, babies---newborns, parenting, medical-research, motor-neurone-disease, neuroscience, family, darwin-0800, sydney-2000
Charity's free breakfast service evolves into more than a hot meal
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There are calls to expand free meal services across Darwin, after a charity's ad-hoc breakfast program evolves into a first aid and welfare initiative for the homeless, sick and abused.
Topics: health, charities, poverty, domestic-violence, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, food-and-beverage, darwin-0800
Dreams drive elusive search for treasure in old locked safes
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At any given moment in a clattering Darwin workshop, locksmith Ben Simmons can be found cracking open an old rusting safe brought in by a hopeful treasure hunter — and just once in a while he strikes gold.
Topics: community-and-society, history, recycling-and-waste-management, darwin-0800
Meet the woman on a 30,000km quest to walk the Americas
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Australian woman Lucy Barnard is poised to embark on a three-year walk from Argentina to Alaska, even collecting poo samples for science on the way.
Topics: adventure, travel-and-tourism, women, human-interest, australia
Non-Indigenous skin names defended amid Arrernte singer's criticism
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This is Megan Meade's story of being a non-Indigenous person receiving a skin name and what it means to her.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800, nt
Alien-looking shrimp surface in Central Australia
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Heavy rains in Central Australia see tiny shield shrimps hatching from years of obscurity in the middle of the desert.
Topics: animals, weather, floods, deserts, offbeat, weird-and-wonderful, nt, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800
Arrernte singer questions skin names given to non-Indigenous people
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Should non-Indigenous people accept a skin name if they are offered one by an Indigenous person?
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800, nt
Salvation Army prison bus returned to charity after office trashing
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A charity bus has been recovered and returned to the Salvation Army after the organisation's Darwin offices were trashed and the vehicle stolen overnight.
Topics: crime, charities, anula-0812
Tourism department welcomes 'C U in the NT' ad standards ruling
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The NT tourism department welcomes an advertising standards ruling that the controversial and globally shared "CU in the NT" tourism campaign is obscene and offensive.
Topics: advertising, travel-and-tourism, human-interest, darwin-0800
Meet the young artist painting Dreaming stories onto Louis Vuitton
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A young Darwin-based artist turns to painting swirling and colourful Dreaming stories onto handbags as part of a bid to create "wearable art" sold independently from art dealers.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, fashion, visual-art, painting, youth, people, darwin-0800
The great crash of Australia's 'cooking oil' renewable fuel industry
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A decade ago, entrepreneurs were leading a backyard movement turning old fish and chip cooking oil into a greener fuel source for diesel cars. A lot has changed since then.
Topics: oil-and-gas, recycling-and-waste-management, small-business, tax, darwin-0800
Show Us Your Donga: A look inside a Top End curiosity
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Typically defined as temporary or demountable housing, nobody is quite sure where the word donga even came from, let alone how it came to apply to such a vast display of structures.
Topics: offbeat, architecture, popular-culture, abc, people, human-interest, darwin-0800
Business owner slams 'ridiculous' Palmerston parking meters
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The introduction of parking meters in Palmerston is "ridiculous" according to a local business owner, who says retailers have been asking for a multi-storey carpark for several years.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, palmerston-0830, darwin-0800
ABC resists calls to reverse axing of NT shortwave service (audio)
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The national broadcaster defends the axing of the Northern Territory's long distance radio service amid ongoing concern about emergency updates and calls from federal politicians to reverse the decision.
Topics: abc, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, radio-broadcasting, radio, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, human-interest, nt
NT and SA women's centres saved as Qld sister service faces closure
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The Federal Government defends its decision to fund the Northern Territory and South Australian chapters of a specialist women's legal service but not its sister service in Queensland.
Topics: women, work, law-crime-and-justice, discrimination, nt, sa, qld, darwin-0800
What it takes to create a cult-like fashion label in Darwin
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Despite being told she was "too old" to open a new store this month, those who know the driving force behind cult Darwin fashion label Raw Cloth say nothing can stop Rhonda Dunne's creativity.
Topics: fashion, family, people, darwin-0800
Indigenous youth worker's t-shirt design has suicide backstory
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A Darwin youth worker who designed a t-shirt after three cousins took their own lives in just 10 days, calls for more to be done to address devastating Indigenous suicide rates.
Topics: suicide, depression, mental-health, youth, prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800
Retiree too sad to celebrate brings Christmas joy to others
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A Darwin man who has lost nearly all of his family at different times around Christmas turns "a very sad time of year" into festive lunches for thousands of people in need.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, food-and-cooking, christmas, family, human-interest, darwin-0800
Connecting strangers with people who sometimes fear dying alone
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In the sparsely populated Northern Territory, a charity's national phone call initiative has evolved into a personal service connecting strangers with people who sometimes fear dying alone.
Topics: charities, volunteers, mental-health, older-people, human-interest, darwin-0800
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