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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-development, rural, nt, australia
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory's Assistant Minister for Remote Housing declines to join his colleagues in a press conference promoting government spending on housing in the bush.
Topics: housing, aboriginal, hermannsburg-0872, nt
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It’s been a long and difficult fight for acceptance for the sistagirls, or trans women from the Tiwi Islands, and now a group of about 30 are heading to Sydney to show off their own unique blend of Tiwi traditional culture, and to teach the rest of Australia about the Indigenous LGBTIQ community.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sexuality, nt
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For Tennant Creek 13-year-old, Boyd Cook, it was a day he'll long remember — kicking a footy with players from the Collingwood Football Club.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, youth, community-and-society, rural-youth, rural, tennant-creek-0860, nt, australia
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| UpdatedIt is part of a trial by the Timor-Leste electoral commission giving some expats the chance to vote in the country's upcoming elections for the first time since independence.
Topics: foreign-affairs, elections, nt
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| UpdatedABC managing director Michelle Guthrie tells a Senate Estimates hearing she is confident the organisation did not breach its charter by cancelling its shortwave radio service.
Topics: abc, broadcasting, canberra-2600, nt
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| UpdatedThe number of syphilis cases reported in the NT jumps from 14 in 2012 to 229 last year, with doctors warning with young people and pregnant women are most at risk.
Topics: sexual-health, youth, reproduction-and-contraception, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt
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| UpdatedParks Australia is accused of burying its head in the sand regarding the management of a contentious 12,000-hectare buffalo farm in the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park.
Topics: sustainable-and-alternative-farming, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, national-parks, government-and-politics, nt
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A senior territory lawyer urges the Government to take a proactive approach to helping children, saying if you can compare their wellbeing to those in under-developed countries "something is very, very wrong".
Topics: child-health-and-behaviour, children, child-abuse, human, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory Police investigate allegations hundreds of thousands of dollars has been misappropriated from one of the Territory's most important alcohol rehabilitation programs.
Topics: government-and-politics, rural-youth, rural, alcohol, drug-use, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, rehabilitation, tennant-creek-0860, nt
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| UpdatedAfter it was discovered children had been playing amongst exposed asbestos, locals fear for their health.
Topics: asbestos, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, corporate-governance, tennant-creek-0860, nt
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| UpdatedFrontline services will be impacted as jobs are slashed from the federal Health Department, the public sector union warns.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-administration, australia, act, nsw, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, wa
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The Territory Government resists calls to have an independent watchdog investigate the three NT utilities corporations at the centre of a multi-million-dollar staffing blowout.
Topics: government-and-politics, nt
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| UpdatedEnvironmental 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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| UpdatedThere 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