cross-referenced news and research resources about
municipalities of Australia's Northern Territory
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NEWS.com.au
April 28, 2018
THREE years ago, a former Territory firefighter and ADF member walked 400km from the Victorian country town of Mildura to Adelaide. On Saturday, almost 1000 Territorians joined the march. PHILLIPPA BUTT. NT NewsApril 28, 20184:25pm. Amy, Elliot and James (5) McDonough and Zoe Lymbery (4) participated in theÃÂ ...
The Australian
April 28, 2018
In the tiny Northern Territory town of Larrimah, everyone hears everything: road trains passing, wild donkeys braying and the shouts of “murderer” as cars hurtle along the ... They're yelling at a 75-year-old grandma who earns a crust making pies — and none of the town's other 10 residents is surprised.
ABC Message Stick
April 20, 2018
Indigenous residents have feared lead would show up in their drinking water since 2014, when it was revealed Glencore's McArthur River Mine lead-zinc operation had contaminated cattle and fish. The company was forced to admit it was the source of the pollution after the Northern Territory EnvironmentÃÂ ...
ABC Online
April 18, 2018
The disease wiped out millions of dollars worth of crops in the Queensland town of Emerald in 2004, and was last detected in the Northern Territory in ... Citrus Australia said there were a number of Darwin properties that could be affected, and that it could impact local trade and trade to some capital cities.
The Guardian
April 13, 2018
The One Mile Dam town camp, bordering the Darwin city centre, has had long-running housing problems, with about half the residences having no water or electricity, and many of them being little more than fenced sheds. Bagot community on the outskirts of Darwin has reported overcrowding and socialÃÂ ...
ABC Online
April 13, 2018
The review by Deloitte examined a range of issues in the 43 camps, including housing quality, land tenure, municipal services and community aspirations. Residents of town camps, which are situated within Northern Territory towns including Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Elliot, haveÃÂ ...
ABC Online
April 6, 2018
Would you trust a chat bot powered by artificial intelligence to help draft your last will and testament? In the Northern Territory town of Coolalinga, it's already happening. For $150, a chat bot called Ailira will help you make a will — and since the service began in November last year, hundreds of peopleÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
April 2, 2018
IT'S the Aussie outback town that — after decades awash with welfare and booze — is front and centre of a shameful child protection crisis. ... The Northern Territory town might have stayed out of sight, out of mind if it wasn't for the searing media scrutiny of an alleged toddler rape in February that rattledÃÂ ...
Northern Star
April 2, 2018
IT'S the Aussie outback town that - after decades awash with welfare and booze - is front and centre of a shameful child protection crisis. The Tennant Creek community - at the heart of the country - has been hiding sinister secrets about crimes too ugly to visualise. The Northern Territory town might haveÃÂ ...
Irish Times
April 2, 2018
The location has become a sprawling tent city for 150,000 refugees and is a “maze of misery and toil”, Fr O'Riordan says. ... Similar efforts being used in both poor, white and aboriginal towns, in Australia and the Northern Territory, remind Fr O'Riordan “very much what we were trying to do in Moyross”.
Northern Star
April 1, 2018
While Sydney ranked 32 in the list of the world's most expensive cities, it was the 16th most expensive city in terms of rent, according to Numbeo. ... The Northern Territory capital might be small in size - with a total population of about 250,000 people - but it's also home to some of the highest prices for fuelÃÂ ...
The Australian
March 23, 2018
The Northern Territory town of Katherine has had the good fortune to be dealt a hand from a pack stacked with aces. Like many territory towns, Katherine has its problems. It's expensive to truck goods .... “We offer them a bit of the lifestyle they had back in the city,” says Armstrong. The staff and families fromÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 20, 2018
Malcolm Turnbull has sent his thoughts to Darwin, in a phone call to the chief minister five days after Cyclone Marcus tore through the city. The prime minister contacted the Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, on Wednesday morning, speaking for about three to four minutes. They mainlyÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 7, 2018
The director general of licensing is extending strict alcohol bans in Tennant Creek, citing feedback that the town was “unrecognisable” in its improvement, however the minister, Gerry Barkly, who is also the local MP, said that was more due to people going to other towns that did not have restrictions.
ABC Online
December 31, 1999
The ceremony began with a powerful welcome to country from Lieutenant Nigel Brown, while Northern Territory Administrator Vicky O'Halloran laid the first ... More than 1,000 people covered the top of Anzac Hill in the centre of town, and about 200 people attended the dawn service in Tennant Creek.
NEWS.com.au
December 31, 1999
News.com.au has learned that a four-year-old girl has also allegedly been indecently assaulted by a relative in the troubled outback town of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Indecent assault is a type of sexual assault that involves unwanted touching of a person's body by another person.
ABC Online
February 24, 2018
To some, it is the hairstyle that time forgot. To others it is worn as a badge of non-conformity. Today the title of The Greatest Mullet of All will be bestowed upon one of 154 registered entrants at Mulletfest, the newest and strangest regional event in New South Wales.
The Guardian
February 24, 2018
The Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, where many residents are not happy with the government's response in tackling social problems. ... Northern Territory police alerted welfare services 16 times over 18 months with concerns about the family of a two-year-old Tennant Creek girl, who wasÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
February 22, 2018
Tennant Creek, located about 500km north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, has been known for its high crime rates and social dysfunction, fuelled by substance abuse and endemic poverty, for decades. The town's average murder rate is higher per 100,000 inhabitants than that of the United StatesÃÂ ...
Radio Australia
February 21, 2018
A Northern Territory pie shop owner says police seized a hacksaw and two hammers from her property, but maintains she had nothing to do with the disappearance of missing stockman Paddy Moriarty. Paddy Moriarty, 70, was last seen in the Northern Territory town of Larrimah in December 2017. (Credit:ÃÂ ...
ABC Local
February 20, 2018
Last week, Chief Minister Michael Gunner said that attracting young, working women to the Northern Territory would help solve the ongoing issue of population ... A regional Victorian town faced similar dire straits in the early 2000s, and the woman who reinvigorated that town is now based in Darwin.
ABC Online
February 20, 2018
A two-year-old girl has been flown to hospital in Adelaide after an alleged sexual assault in the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek. A 24-year-old man was remanded in custody on Tuesday after being charged with sexually assaulting the child. He is due to appear in the Alice Springs Local Court viaÃÂ ...
ABC Online
February 16, 2018
The town has only about a dozen residents, who have all been interviewed by police. Mr Moriarty had about 10 mid-strength beers on December 16 at his local pub. The publican said, after that he, "vanished into thin air". Northern Territory Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said a potential reward toÃÂ ...
ABC Online
February 16, 2018
The Northern Territory Times and Gazette was something of a community noticeboard for life in the early years of the Northern Territory; the rough ... "So far it's tweeted things like adverts for two riding saddles that are for sale; it's dug out a section called Town Topics, which is basically full of people whoÃÂ ...
The Australian
February 13, 2018
“A number of eligible open-rated prisoners are being assessed for administrative home detention and others may be transferred to the pre-release work village,'' the department said. “Extra custodial staff are being rostered on to manage the increased workload.” Darwin Correctional Centre is one ofÃÂ ...
ABC Online
January 31, 2018
Comparatively, a Darwin taxi fare will cost you a base fee of $5.40 and $1.54 per kilometre travelled and 10 cents for every 6.5 seconds the taxi is idle on top of that. Mr Broughton said a Hi Oscar fare from the airport into the city would cost about $20, however the app suggested the fare would cost closer toÃÂ ...
ABC Online
January 30, 2018
The community had its Telstra services restored yesterday after five days of outage, but mobile communication was still unavailable on Wednesday. Mr Horton said some buildings and homes had flooded, the sewerage system was experiencing problems and the risk of crocodiles emerging in the town wasÃÂ ...
SBS
December 7, 2017
Defence admits it could have acted sooner to tackle a nationwide environmental contamination scandal that has now engulfed the Northern Territory. ... On Wednesday night, Darwin residents were told two creeks located close to the city's air force base are unsafe for swimming after high levels of PFAS, ...
NRL.COM
December 7, 2017
Parramatta have extended their footprint into the Northern Territory, leaving a lasting impression on the remote indigenous town of Santa Teresa on Tuesday. Bevan French, Josh Hoffman, Will Smith and Nathan Davis made the 85-kilometre trek from the red centre to Santa Teresa across the dry and barren ...
ABC Local
December 7, 2017
A heated town meeting in the Queensland town of Oakey has failed to alleviate the ongoing concerns of residents, whose water and soil are contaminated. Across the country in the Northern Territory town of Katherine, residents have just learned they shouldn't be eating the fish in the Katherine river.
The National Student
December 7, 2017
Tens of thousands of young people leave the UK every year to travel to Australia on a Working Holiday Visa (WHV). We visited Darwin, capital city of Australia's Northern Territory, to find out why so many people go. Nourlangie, Kakadu National Park // Peter Eve/Tourism NT. An Australian WHV is available ...
ABC Online
December 5, 2017
Katherine residents are being warned not to eat local seafood and other home-grown produce after an interim report into PFAS contamination identified them as potential health risks. The Department of Defence released details of an interim human health risk assessment for the Northern Territory town on ...
Daily Telegraph
December 2, 2017
Matt Wright and Kaia Hammond at home in the Northern Territory. (Picture: ... But it's the city stuff — the fuss, the clothes, pretentious people — that makes him feel like he's up to his neck. “The bird what? ... That's when I like cities — when everybody's at home and I have the streets to myself. Paris, New ...
Herald Sun
November 30, 2017
The Yothu Yindi Foundation has told the commission's inquiry into GST distribution a dramatic increase in numbers of people from Melbourne and Sydney identifying as indigenous had led to reduced funding for Aboriginal people in remote Northern Territory areas. Last year's Census showed the number ...
NEWS.com.au
November 30, 2017
DAY Patrols, targeting itinerants causing a nuisance in the Darwin CBD, will make a welcome return today. The Day Patrols are part of a comprehensive suite of measures Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced in September to reduce anti-social behaviour and get itinerants off the streets and into ...
ABC Online
November 28, 2017
The Northern Territory Government also signed an agreement with the three ... The mining town of Nhulunbuy, in the Gove region, had been ...
ABC Online
November 28, 2017
... being considered in the Northern Territory town of Katherine, where PFAS chemicals have seeped into bores used for drinking and irrigation.
Xinhua
November 28, 2017
28 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Northern Territory (NT) government has ... The town of about 30,000 inhabitants plunged into darkness earlier this ...
TTG
November 27, 2017
Australia's Northern Territory is giving travel agents the chance to win the latest ... They can immerse themselves in Darwin's laid-back city culture, explore ...
NEWS.com.au
November 27, 2017
CENTURIES-old heatwave records have been shattered all over Australia in the past week as cities from Hobart to Sydney have been hit by ...
The Australian
November 27, 2017
The head of Territory Generation revealed the town was already experiencing network stability issues even with low levels of solar penetration.
NEWS.com.au
November 22, 2017
The heavy storm, which approached the city from the southeast, quickly dropped 36mm of rain into Darwin airport's weather gauges.
Port Stephens Examiner
November 22, 2017
The mangoes had been sourced from Katherine, a contamination hot spot in the Northern Territory, where the town water supply has previously ...
ABC Online
November 21, 2017
Northern Territory business woman of the year Karinda Gill is not your ... Darwin's a small town, you do the right thing and it will repay you," Ms ...
Sky News Australia
November 21, 2017
On Saturday, a town lease for Gunyangara was signed. ... Australian and Northern Territory law will apply and town planning rules will be ...
ABC Online
November 20, 2017
But Music NT's Mark Smith said the Northern Territory had a lot more to offer. ... Am I Supposed To Do and East Journey's Bright Lights Big City.
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