Neda Vanovac

• NT Police, ABS informed of alleged mail tampering over SSM survey

  By Neda Vanovac and Nick Hose

  Posted September 21, 2017 17:12:33

  The validity of the same-sex marriage survey has been called into question by Federal MP Warren Snowdon as NT Police are informed of alleged mail tampering in remote Gunbalanya community.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, government-and-politics, sexuality, community-and-society, gunbalanya-0822, nt, darwin-0800

• Dr G Yunupingu remembered at state memorial in Darwin

  By Neda Vanovac, Dijana Damjanovic, Jane Bardon, and Jano Gibson

  Posted September 19, 2017 06:12:33 | Updated September 20, 2017 07:40:01

  One of Australia's most famous Aboriginal musicians, Dr G Yunupingu, is remembered as someone who overcame great shyness due to his blindness to skyrocket to international stardom.

  Topics: human-interest, community-and-society, people, indigenous-music, music, arts-and-entertainment, darwin-0800, nt

• Secret Women's Business: Meet the Top End women taking on competitive fishing

  By Neda Vanovac and Jano Gibson

  Posted September 16, 2017 09:08:53

  Devised over a decade ago as a way to break into the male-dominated sport of fishing, more than 100 women get out on the water to have a good time, and see if they can get a bite.

  Topics: fishing-aquaculture, fish, rural, human-interest, community-and-society, people, darwin-0800, nt

• Aboriginal rangers trading carbon credits created by fire

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  Kristy O'Brien and Neda Vanovac

  Posted September 10, 2017 08:54:37 | Updated September 10, 2017 11:57:41

  Warddeken rangers are running what is believed to be a world-first program using traditional and high-tech fire management, and trading the resulting carbon offset credits.

  Topics: fires, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, land-management, environment, darwin-0800, nt

• Police freeze on Facebook naming and shaming of kids prompts law review

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted September 09, 2017 13:28:36

  After NT Police halts its practice of publishing the names and images of children on social media, the Attorney-General says the Government will consider reforming the Youth Justice Act.

  Topics: youth, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, police, nt

• Naming and shaming NT kids a breach of human rights, children's commissioner says

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted September 06, 2017 17:54:23 | Updated September 06, 2017 19:34:59

  The Northern Territory is the only jurisdiction where the personal details of under-18s can be made public, and former police officer Colleen Gwynne said the practice is harmful, makes children more likely to reoffend, and that it has to stop.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, police, darwin-0800, nt, alice-springs-0870

• 'Prohibition hasn't worked': NT politician pushes for decriminalisation of drugs

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted September 05, 2017 13:36:09 | Updated September 05, 2017 15:58:28

  Labor MLA Jeff Collins is in Portugal looking at its successful decriminalisation program, and says he will push for the NT to adopt similar measures to tackle drug use as a health rather than criminal issue.

  Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-offences, drug-use, health, law-crime-and-justice, nt

• New Darwin Lord Mayor blasts predecessors for 'stupid decisions'

  ABC Radio Darwin

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted September 04, 2017 12:19:27 | Updated September 04, 2017 16:20:16

  Darwin's plain-speaking new Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis derides the former council for making "stupid decisions" and "pissing off the voters", pledging to lead a team to revitalise the languishing city.

  Topics: forms-of-government, local-government, elections, darwin-0800, nt

• Guns, capsicum spray stolen from remote NT police station, officers unaware for days

  By Neda Vanovac and Nancy Notzon

  Posted August 25, 2017 17:19:01 | Updated August 25, 2017 19:18:11

  It took several days for the officers to learn of the theft, after being told by a member of the public on Thursday that the station had been robbed.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, finke-0872, nt

• Why hasn't Darwin embraced solar power to help locals reduce power bills?

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted August 22, 2017 07:07:51 | Updated August 22, 2017 19:33:25

  The cost, the demographics, the weather: what's causing the NT to lag behind other states in terms of solar power uptake?

  Topics: solar-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, business-economics-and-finance, science-and-technology, environment, darwin-0800, nt

• Three generations of one family win Indigenous art award

  Neda Vanovac

  Posted August 11, 2017 22:15:03 | Updated August 17, 2017 12:13:48

  A South Australian family wins the overall prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards with a multimedia work of a young man imprisoned by spears in a comment on youth incarceration, the role of elders, and the importance of culture.

  Topics: visual-art, awards-and-prizes, human-interest, darwin-0800, australia, nt

• Utopia's roaming dogs frighten immobile elderly artist

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted August 10, 2017 06:54:41 | Updated August 10, 2017 08:59:28

  Kathleen Ngale worries that one of the many dogs that flock around Aboriginal homelands and outstations in Utopia, in Central Australia, will attack her, and her relatives are calling for better animal controls by councils.

  Topics: aged-care, community-and-society, government-and-politics, health, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, alice-springs-0870, nt

• 'It violates culture': Indigenous artists battle mass-produced knock-offs

  Neda Vanovac

  Posted August 09, 2017 07:41:44

  As the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair approaches, consumers are being warned about the cultural and economic damage that can be done by buying fake products made overseas and masquerading as Indigenous works.

  Topics: arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, indigenous-culture, consumer-protection, government-and-politics, darwin-0800, nt, qld

• Aboriginal rangers discover rock art sites while conducting burn-offs in Arnhem Land

  By Kristy O'Brien and Neda Vanovac

  Posted July 30, 2017 08:57:52 | Updated July 30, 2017 09:53:40

  While burning off dry grasses and trees in Arnhem Land, Warddeken rangers discover a site that could contain up to 30,000 works of rock art.

  Topics: visual-art, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, archaeology, darwin-0800, nt

• NT croc industry valued at over $100m, four times previous estimates

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted July 27, 2017 11:12:23 | Updated July 27, 2017 12:28:26

  Chief Minister Michael Gunner said a new report reinforced the Government's plan to increase its investment with Indigenous rangers in remote communities.

  Topics: crocodile, animals, livestock, government-and-politics, darwin-0800, nt

• 'It beggars belief': NT Corrections criticised by coroner over prisoner suicides

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted July 24, 2017 15:50:32 | Updated July 24, 2017 19:00:06

  NT coroner Greg Cavanagh slams the Darwin Prison for having accessible hanging points in prisons following two inmate deaths, saying "it's beggars belief" for a prison constructed in the 21st century.

  Topics: community-and-society, suicide, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800, nt

• 'Are you crazy?': Darwin woman prepares for the Mongol Derby horse race

  By Kristy O'Brien and Neda Vanovac

  Posted July 22, 2017 09:15:02 | Updated July 22, 2017 09:44:53

  Fewer than half of the riders racing along Genghis Khan's ancient mail delivery route manage to finish the race, and Jodie Ward hopes she'll be one of them.

  Topics: horse-racing, extreme-sports, darwin-0800, mongolia

• Job cuts as Nine News Darwin loses local bulletin

  By Neda Vanovac and Alyssa Betts

  Posted July 11, 2017 12:40:47 | Updated July 11, 2017 14:37:34

  Nine News staff are told that as of September 8, Darwin will no longer produce a standalone news bulletin, as it is absorbed into the regional Queensland division.

  Topics: media, industry, business-economics-and-finance, nt, darwin-0800

• Legal drinking age in NT should rise from 18 to 21, doctors say

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted July 10, 2017 13:39:07 | Updated July 10, 2017 15:58:54

  In a submission to the NT Government's review of alcohol policy, doctors say the legal drinking age should be raised to 21, and that the rest of the country should consider doing the same.

  Topics: alcohol, health-policy, social-policy, government-and-politics, drug-use, alcohol-education, darwin-0800, nt, alice-springs-0870

• 'Slow death': 87yo Aboriginal artist sleeping outside with dogs amid calls for better aged care

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted July 05, 2017 06:36:10 | Updated July 05, 2017 17:32:27

  Her paintings have been exhibited in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo and Milan. But in her old age, renowned Aboriginal artist Kathleen Ngale lives on a mattress outdoors, unable to walk, kept warm during cold desert winter nights by about a dozen dogs who sleep alongside her.

  Topics: aged-care, community-and-society, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800

• More than 20 people injured during NT's cracker night celebrations

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted July 02, 2017 11:01:29 | Updated July 02, 2017 15:02:28

  Emergency services respond to more than 500 calls for help as Territorians celebrate cracker night, but the fun ended with injuries for 24 revellers, including eight children.

  Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, community-and-society, events, human-interest, darwin-0800, nt

• NT's Territory Day celebrations to go off with a bang

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted July 01, 2017 09:10:57 | Updated July 01, 2017 15:17:55

  Every July 1, the NT celebrates self-government, which it attained in 1978, by blowing things up in an ear-splitting display that's unique in the country.

  Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, events, community-and-society, community-and-multicultural-festivals, arts-and-entertainment, darwin-0800, nt

• Aboriginal academy for girls in Utopia one step closer

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted June 27, 2017 06:42:23 | Updated June 28, 2017 08:09:31

  Sydney's Barker College will begin fundraising to establish a school for girls in the Northern Territory's remote Utopia homelands, which will aim to give students a grounding in their Aboriginal culture, taught by local women.

  Topics: education, access-to-education, schools, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, youth, indigenous-culture, alice-springs-0870, sydney-2000, darwin-0800

• Champion race car driver pleads guilty over 'doughies' in Darwin street

  By Shahni Wellington and Neda Vanovac

  Posted June 19, 2017 15:16:03 | Updated June 20, 2017 17:44:20

  Champion American super truck racing driver Robby Gordon is fined nearly $4,000 for driving offences he described as "putting on a show" for Darwinites on the Mitchel Street bar strip.

  Topics: motor-sports, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sport, darwin-0800

• Alice Springs rider with broken hand wins Finke Desert Race

  By Neda Vanovac , Tom Maddocks and Claire Campbell

  Posted June 12, 2017 11:07:37 | Updated June 12, 2017 16:39:36

  Daymon Stokie doesn't let a broken hand stop him from pulling off the first home win for Alice Springs since 2006 at the Finke Desert Race.

  Topics: motor-sports, sport, community-and-society, alice-springs-0870, nt, finke-0872

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