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Environmental lawyers and the mining industry are calling for greater transparency over the Northern Territory Government's handling of millions of dollars collected through the legacy mine levy.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, nt
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| UpdatedPreventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it, writes Bianca Fileborn from UNSW.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, australia, vic, tas, qld, sa, nt, nsw, wa
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There are now 200 more people employed by the NT's three utilities companies than before they were split, which has cost more than $70 million so far, insiders say.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, government-and-politics, nt
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| UpdatedThere are plans to wipe out one in five of Australia's remaining feral rabbits with a new strain of the calicivirus to be released next week.
Topics: animals, human-interest, rural, animal-science, animal-welfare, australia, act, wa, qld, tas, nt, nsw, sa
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Some homes in the community of Borroloola on the Gulf of Carpentaria have been evacuated with 74 residents sheltering elsewhere, as they wait for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall about sunrise on Tuesday.
Topics: cyclone, weather, borroloola-0854, burketown-4830, doomadgee-4830, darwin-0800, nt, qld
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| UpdatedTropical Cyclone Alfred weakens to a tropical low as it begins to make landfall on the Gulf of Carpentaria's southern coast.
Topics: cyclones, rainfall, borroloola-0854, burketown-4830, doomadgee-4830, darwin-0800, nt, qld
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World War II veterans and descendants of those who perished during Japanese air raids over Northern Australia gather to honour and remember those who lost their lives.
Topics: world-war-2, history, adelaide-river-0846, nt, darwin-0800
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Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory are not in agreement on whether section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act should be changed, a federal inquiry hears.
Topics: race-relations, community-and-society, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedHomes in the community of Borroloola on the Gulf of Carpentaria are evacuated, with 74 residents sheltering elsewhere while waiting for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall.
Topics: weather, cyclone, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, borroloola-0854, burketown-4830, doomadgee-4830, darwin-0800, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, qld, nt
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Is year 12 really worth all the stress, and does it prepare you for the real world? Students who self-documented their entire final year for the ABC give their verdicts.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, education, australia, wa, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, nsw, act, kununurra-6743
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| UpdatedSurvivors and veterans of the bombing of Darwin 75 years ago have been honoured for their role in preserving freedom and rebuilding peace.
Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, darwin-0800, australia, nt
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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
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| UpdatedThe Bureau of Meteorology says Queensland may see its first cyclone of the season, to be named Alfred, form in the Gulf of Carpentaria on Sunday.
Topics: weather, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cairns-4870, kowanyama-4871, doomadgee-4830, qld, darwin-0800, burketown-4830, nt
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| UpdatedAn 11-year-old girl who died of sepsis after rolling her ankle was sent home from hospital with painkillers and antibiotics after a phone consultation with an on-call doctor, an inquest into her death is told.
Topics: health, child-health-and-behaviour, diseases-and-disorders, nt
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| UpdatedMike Fitzpatrick reflects on the ups and downs of his 10-year reign as AFL chairman, including Essendon's doping saga, the AFL's expansion plans, gambling and the new women's league.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, nsw, sa, wa, tas, qld, nt
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As the Northern Territory grapples with an increase in property crime, particularly involving young perpetrators, the Government announces it will seek to pass legislation on urgency so GPS tracking ankle bracelets can be used to reduce crime.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, police, youth, nt
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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
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Victoria emerges victorious from a tense National Indigenous Cricket Championship final, narrowly beating New South Wales by 18 runs.
Topics: cricket, sport, alice-springs-0870, nt, australia
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory Government is failing to follow its own laws that recommend at-risk Indigenous children be placed within their families and communities as a priority, Yingiya Mark Guyula says.
Topics: aboriginal, child-abuse, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt
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CCTV footage shows the men filling a car before driving off, and being involved in a fatal crash.
Topics: road, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, howard-springs-0835, nt
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The Tiwi Bombers call on Michael Solomon to resign for "publicly embarrassing" the cash-strapped side.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, nt, darwin-0800
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The Northern Territory will be a small but crucial part of the United States' pivot towards Asia over the coming years, and local businesses are hoping to profit from a growing Defence spend.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-aerospace-industries, economic-trends, nt, darwin-0800, katherine-0850
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory's royal commission into youth detention travels to New Zealand to look at alternative approaches to youth justice that appear to be achieving results.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, nt
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| UpdatedThe use of Tasers on children should be eliminated, the National Children's Commissioner has said, after seeing footage obtained by the ABC that shows an unarmed 12-year-old boy tasered by Northern Territory Police.
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| UpdatedThe use of tasers on children should be eliminated, the National Children's Commissioner says, after seeing footage obtained by the ABC that shows an unarmed 12-year-old boy tasered by Northern Territory Police.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, community-and-society, children, nt