Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Norrn Territory

With anti-discrimination changes, Northern Territory has some of the world's most progressive sex work laws. It wasn't always that way

In a world-first, anti-discrimination changes passed in the Northern Territory this week create explicit protections for sex workers. It comes after the Northern Terrritory became only the second Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise sex work.

ABC News

National Aboriginal Art Gallery being built on sacred site divides community as Indigenous leaders call for 'respect'

It's being spruiked as a future tourist magnet that will celebrate 65,000 years of culture, that will stimulate central Australia's economy. But it is dividing the Alice Springs community

ABC News

Mystery of a Northern Territory man’s disappearance solved, almost 25 years after he vanished from the Tiwi Islands

When Djarrwalkpuy Yunupingu, a teacher’s aide and much-loved father, failed to return home to the Tiwi Islands in 1996, his family were left with more questions than answers. Now, they finally know what happened to him.

ABC News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Mining company URO applies to explore for uranium on Litchfield National Park's western border

Mining company URO has lodged an application to explore for uranium, lithium, rare earths and precious metals on the border of Litchfield National Park, concerning some residents and tourism operators.

ABC News

Samuel Bush-Blanasi named 2023 NT Australian of the Year for work to empower Indigenous Australians

Four Territorians were last night recognised for their contribution to the Northern Territory, with land rights activist Samuel Bush-Blanasi named as the Northern Territory's 2023 Australian of the Year.

ABC News

NT coroner shown 'distressing' video of the moment Kumanjayi Walker's family was informed of his death

Body-worn video of the moment Kumanjayi Walker's family was informed of his death has been played to the Northern Territory coroner, showing police urging his loved ones not to get "angry" and referred to him by an incorrect name.

ABC News

Middle Arm industrial precinct, remote homelands and Aboriginal art gallery funding confirmed for NT in federal budget

Funding for a billion-dollar industrial hub on Darwin Harbour and a national Aboriginal art gallery in Alice Springs are among the big-ticket items confirmed for the Northern Territory in Tuesday's federal budget.

ABC News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Northern Territory, Australia's homicide capital, calls for needs-based model to increase share of domestic violence funding

First Nations women in the Northern Territory are murdered at up to 12 times the national average. Yet, ABC's Four Corners can reveal the territory receives just 1.8 per cent of the funding designed to prevent it.

ABC News

NT's Blacktip gas field production drops, forcing shutdown of Northern Gas Pipeline

Production from the offshore field which supplies gas for the Top End's electricity generation has decreased by nearly 50 per cent this year.

ABC News

Oil and gas industry will no longer get free water in NT, questions remain for other big industries

For the first time, major industries in the Northern Territory will be charged for the water they use.

ABC News

Northern Territory moves to raise age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12

Government says authorities will refer children under 12 and their families to parenting and behavioural change programs to break the cycle of offending

The Guardian - AU

NT government to introduce laws raising the age of criminal responsibility and reforming adult mandatory sentencing

The Northern Territory government says reforms raising the age of criminal responsibility and curtailing mandatory sentencing are an indication "the revolving prison door" stops here.

ABC News

Former NT chief minister Michael Gunner to join Andrew Forrest-owned renewable energy company Fortescue Future Industries

Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest's decision to employ Michael Gunner in a key new role within his renewable energy company has been welcomed by environmentalists, who say Mr Gunner has "seen the light on climate" after previously lifting a moratorium on fracking.

ABC News

NT Supreme Court finds Commonwealth immune from liability over sacred site damage in Kakadu National Park

In a long-running and emotional case, the Northern Territory's highest court has found Parks Australia cannot be prosecuted for damage to a sacred men's site in Kakadu National Park, because of the wording of NT legislation.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Impacted by the Optus data breach? Here's how to replace your passport, drivers licence and Medicare card

Did you get a message from Optus about your identification documents being exposed in the cyber attack? Here's what you need to know about replacing them.

ABC News

NT Government warned by its own advisor against water allocation changes, impacts on Roper River

According to freedom of information documents, the government changed its water allocation rules despite its senior water planner warning it could deplete aquifers and cause the Roper River to "flow in the opposite direction".

ABC News

'World-class' new Darwin Youth Justice Centre's location next to Holtze prison sparks alarm from co-commissioner Mick Gooda

The NT government says a new facility set to replace Don Dale will take a different approach to youth justice. But one of the people behind a damning Royal Commission into the sector says its location could lead to more 'punitive' treatment.

The Guardian - AU

Racist texts, cover-up allegations: Kumanjayi Walker inquest poses big questions for police

This week extraordinary allegations were vented in an Alice Springs court that raise wider issues for the Northern Territory and its police force

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Remembering the Queen's NT visits and how she brought hope to drought-stricken Central Australia

As the Queen stepped onto the tarmac at Alice Springs airport in 1963, she looked around at what she had been told was Australia's "dead heart". But that's not what she saw.

ABC News

Northern Territory road death rate four times higher than national average, report finds

People die on Northern Territory roads at four times the rate of the national average, and the problem seems to be getting worse. So, what is going wrong, and what can be done to fix it?

ABC News

AEC appeals to NT land councils to address Lingiari's low voter turnout ahead of referendum

Around 20,000 Aboriginal voters are thought to be missing from the NT electoral role, but with a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament on the horizon, there's a desperate push to see rates increase — and positive signs are already emerging.

The Guardian - AU

NT supreme court judge says antiracism is becoming ‘a religion or a cult’

Justice Judith Kelly uses speech on Indigenous domestic violence to claim there’s a ‘culture in some communities that tolerates violence against women’

ABC News

The Northern Territory's 'Aboriginal queen', Nellie Camfoo, on race, love and the children that were taken

Ms Camfoo's story offers an insight into life as aboriginal woman in the 20th century, from being displaced from her land and helping with the war effort, to being unable to marry without a permit.

ABC News

Health and police data to be used to monitor fallout of alcohol bans ending in Northern Territory

Emergency department presentations at hospitals and rates of police arrests will be among the data points monitored in a new program assessing the fallout from long-term alcohol bans ending in parts of the Northern Territory.

ABC News

Indian sandalwood company Quintis puts Northern Territory farm on market

A company that for seven years has been growing indian sandalwood on a former NT cattle station is looking to offload the property that has "underperformed for a variety of reasons".

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department of Transport

Fortescue Future Industries

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.