Avani Dias

• Former Retta Dixon residents settle landmark payout for alleged abuse

  By Avani Dias

  Posted February 15, 2017 15:11:05 | Updated February 15, 2017 20:37:21

  The largest class action in the Northern Territory's history is settled in favour of 71 former residents of the Retta Dixon Home, who alleged years of abuse by staff, in what is the first compensation win as a result of evidence heard by the royal commission into child abuse.

  Topics: child-abuse, child-care, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, youth, royal-commissions, darwin-0800

• Police lacked clear strategy to stop youths on fatal crime spree, inquest hears

  By Avani Dias

  Posted February 13, 2017 20:02:55

  Darwin police lacked clear objectives and resolution strategies to deal with an ice-fuelled group crime spree and subsequent car crash that killed a teenager in 2015, a coronial inquest hears.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, darwin-0800

• Tiwi Bombers demand NT chief quit over debt debacle

  By Avani Dias

  Posted February 12, 2017 14:52:58

  The Tiwi Bombers call on Michael Solomon to resign for "publicly embarrassing" the cash-strapped side.

  Topics: australian-football-league, sport, nt, darwin-0800

• Calls for NT WorkSafe boss to go after 'failure to investigate' deaths

  By Avani Dias

  Posted February 09, 2017 19:07:45 | Updated February 10, 2017 00:28:23

  Northern Territory union members rally against NT WorkSafe, calling for the immediate resignation of its head, after a spate of accidents, including the death of a sailor last month.

  Topics: government-and-politics, unions, community-and-society, darwin-0800

• Dylan Voller 'consistently behaving badly in jail', court hears

  By Avani Dias

  Posted February 01, 2017 15:38:01 | Updated February 01, 2017 19:54:36

  Prosecutors are opposing a bid by former Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller to be released early from prison, saying he has consistently behaved badly in jail.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, youth, prisons-and-punishment, human, rights, darwin-0800, nt

• Waterfalls of Litchfield National Park in full flight

  By Avani Dias

  Posted January 29, 2017 15:25:40

  The spectacular waterfalls at Litchfield National Park, south of Darwin, are pumping after huge amounts of wet season rain.

  Topics: environment, weather, batchelor-0845

• Week of wet weather forecast across NT

  By Avani Dias

  Posted January 23, 2017 20:15:09 | Updated January 24, 2017 10:56:02

  Territorians should brace themselves for a very wet week, with rainfalls of up to 300 millimetres expected in some areas.

  Topics: weather, nt

• Fears Kakadu buffalo farm may breach world heritage obligations

  By Avani Dias

  Posted December 22, 2016 16:12:45

  Traditional owners in Kakadu are calling for control of thousands of hectares in the national park used as a buffalo farm to be returned to Parks Australia, amid concerns the operation may breach the park's world heritage obligations.

  Topics: environmental-management, environmental-impact, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, pest-management, jabiru-0886

• Environmental conditions for Port Melville project removed

  By Avani Dias

  Posted December 15, 2016 19:58:37 | Updated December 15, 2016 23:13:54

  The Federal Government decides a deep sea port on the Tiwi Islands can function as a marine supply base without environmental assessment and none of the environmental conditions that were previously imposed.

  Topics: environmental-impact, government-and-politics, darwin-0800

• Voller seeking release from prison due to treatment in Don Dale

  By Avani Dias

  Posted December 14, 2016 21:15:37 | Updated December 15, 2016 06:44:44

  Former Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller is applying to be released from prison because of his mistreatment in detention.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, royal-commissions, nt

• Kakadu tourist survives buffalo 'death charge'

  By Avani Dias

  Posted December 14, 2016 20:35:48 | Updated December 15, 2016 09:28:18

  A photographer visiting Kakadu National Park feels lucky to be alive after an injured water buffalo charges at him and gouges out a piece of muscle in his arm.

  Topics: animal-attacks, environment, jabiru-0886

• Wedge-tailed eagle, brolga parts seized in $500k haul

  By Avani Dias

  Posted December 11, 2016 16:38:46 | Updated December 12, 2016 00:24:04

  About 1,300 animal parts, including those of native animals like wedge-tailed eagles and brolgas, are found at a Darwin house in one of the largest hauls of its kind in Australian history.

  Topics: environment, endangered-and-protected-species, darwin-0800, adelaide-river-0846, howard-springs-0835

• Top End residents could be waiting until Christmas for rain relief

  By Avani Dias

  Posted December 06, 2016 18:43:57

  The Bureau of Meteorology says the wet season outlook is better than last year but some much-needed rain may still be weeks away.

  Topics: weather, cyclones, darwin-0800, nt

• NT bans controversial restraint chairs from youth detention

  By Avani Dias

  Posted December 01, 2016 19:32:22 | Updated December 01, 2016 19:47:44

  The Northern Territory Parliament bans the use of mechanical restraint chairs on children in youth detention that shocked Australia when their use was revealed in a Four Corners episode.

  Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, family-and-children, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870

• Guyula to stay in NT Parliament, NTEC application dismissed

  By Avani Dias

  Posted December 01, 2016 16:40:16 | Updated December 01, 2016 18:19:37

  Independent Member for Nhulunbuy Yingiya Mark Guyula will retain his seat in the Northern Territory Parliament after the Court of Disputed Returns dismisses a case challenging his election.

  Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nhulunbuy-0880, darwin-0800

• Aboriginal-run services can work but must prove their worth, leaders say

  By Avani Dias

  Posted November 18, 2016 12:04:43

  A lack of evaluation of Indigenous-run programs addressing disadvantage places serious limits on positive outcomes, community leaders warn.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, health, black-deaths-in-custody, federal---state-issues, nt

• Young Indigenous leaders call for change after damning child removals report

  By Avani Dias

  Posted November 10, 2016 07:38:53

  Young Indigenous leaders from across the Northern Territory want to make decisions about their own communities, instead of leaving it to people in offices in the big cities.

  Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt

• Facebook ads tell migrant Australians to deter family members from arriving illegally

  By Avani Dias

  Posted November 07, 2016 19:32:14 | Updated November 08, 2016 10:58:19

  Second and third-generation Australians say they are shocked by Federal Government Facebook advertisements encouraging them to tell their relatives not to come to Australia illegally.

  Topics: immigration, government-and-politics, advertising, social-media

• Large-scale mangrove forest deaths to be studied in NT

  By Avani Dias

  Posted November 02, 2016 15:03:51 | Updated November 02, 2016 16:12:04

  Environmental researchers will be funded to investigate a century of climate change in the Northern Territory's Gulf region, following the death of thousands of hectares of mangroves.

  Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-management, darwin-0800, karumba-4891

• 'I see the same people come in and out': NT prisoners on life behind bars

  By Avani Dias

  Posted November 01, 2016 19:48:03

  In the wake of a report revealing the territory has Australia's highest incarceration rate, former prisoners discuss reoffending, drug and alcohol programs and the challenges of finding work.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, darwin-0800, nt

• NT prison rate at a 15-year high, Corrections report shows

  By Avani Dias and Lucy Marks

  Posted October 31, 2016 13:54:45 | Updated November 01, 2016 17:56:57

  Almost 1 per cent of the Northern Territory's population are behind bars, and more than half of those in custody will reoffend within the next two years, the 2015-16 Corrections Department annual report shows.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800

• Aboriginal communities struggle with rheumatic heart disease rate

  By Avani Dias

  Posted October 24, 2016 13:40:46 | Updated October 24, 2016 16:21:28

  Rheumatic heart disease is completely preventable, but children in Australian Aboriginal communities still have the highest rate in the world.

  Topics: heart-disease, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt

• Government concedes decision that approved Port Melville was wrong

  By Avani Dias

  Posted October 22, 2016 17:48:08 | Updated October 22, 2016 20:52:46

  The Federal Government admits the decision to allow a $130 million deep sea port on the Tiwi Islands near Darwin without an environmental assessment was wrong, following a Federal Court ruling.

  Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, nt

• NT's child protection system 'focuses on judging parents, taking away children'

  By Avani Dias and Xavier La Canna

  Posted October 13, 2016 14:31:36 | Updated October 13, 2016 16:34:05

  The child protection system in the Northern Territory is focused on judging parents and taking their children away rather than working with them, the royal commission into youth detention is told.

  Topics: royal-commissions, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800

• Fears lead levels in NT kids much worse than previously thought

  By Avani Dias

  Posted October 05, 2016 15:05:19 | Updated October 05, 2016 16:18:31

  Paediatricians in the NT fear unchecked use of lead shot or pellets used for hunting water fowl is causing an outbreak of elevated lead levels in children, the ABC reveals.

  Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, law-crime-and-justice, laws, nt

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