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Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
Tennant Creek is a town located in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the fifth largest town in the Northern Territory and it is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western terminus of the Barkly Highway. At the 2011 census, Tennant Creek had a population of 3,062.
Tennant Creek is approximately 1000 kilometres south of the territory capital, Darwin, and 500 kilometres north of Alice Springs. The town is named after a nearby watercourse of the same name. At the 2001 census, Tennant Creek had a population of 3,185, of which 1,176 identified themselves as indigenous. Tennant Creek is near well-known attractions including the Devils Marbles, Mary Ann Dam, Battery Hill Mining Centre and the Nyinkka Nyunyu Culture Centre and is the hub of the sprawling Barkly Tableland, vast elevated plains of black soil with golden Mitchell grass, that cover more than 240,000 square kilometres.
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The Guardian
March 27, 2018
A 16-year-old boy has been charged over the alleged rape of a four-year-old boy in a remote Northern Territory community. It is at least the second such incident in the Barkly region, after a two-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Tennant Creek last month. The 16-year-old is scheduled to appear in theÃâà...
ABC Online
March 14, 2018
Residents living in the troubled Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek say they want the spotlight to remain on their community until problems with dilapidated, overcrowded housing and crime have been dealt with. But NT Housing Minister and local member Gerry McCarthy told Parliament on TuesdayÃâà...
The Guardian
March 13, 2018
An 11-year-old girl in foster care in Tennant Creek, who is blind, has epilepsy and cognitive impairment, was wrongly denied national disability insurance scheme support worth tens of thousands of dollars, a tribunal has found. The girl, who cannot be named, faces “enormous challenges” due to theÃâà...
ABC Online
March 13, 2018
Over the next three months, the NT Liquor Commission will consult with Tennant Creek licensees and community members over the development of a long-term alcohol management plan. The NT Government said the independent commission was free to review all options, including a total ban on alcohol,Ãâà...
ABC Online
March 6, 2018
"As a consequence, I have today determined to impose the same restrictions on the sale of takeaway alcohol for another seven days." These restrictions apply to Goldfields Hotel, Tennant Creek Hotel, Headframes Bottle Shop, Tennant Creek Memorial Club, Tennant Creek Golf Club and the Sporties Club.
The Guardian
March 4, 2018
The Northern Territory government has released a five-point “action plan” to assist Tennant Creek after the alleged rape of a two-year-old girl and pleas from the community to help combat drugs, alcohol and violence. The response includes the immediate deployment of additional welfare workers to assistÃâà...
ABC Online
March 2, 2018
"I think if we can tackle employment, housing and poverty, it would make a huge difference to Tennant Creek." Ms Reynolds said the wait list for housing in Tennant Creek was about five years. It means those who seek rehabilitation through her organisation for alcohol-related issues often have nowhere toÃâà...
ABC Online
March 1, 2018
Relatives of a little girl who was raped in the outback town of Tennant Creek say they have failed the child and hold ongoing concerns for her safety. They question a decision to keep the toddler with the children's mother, the girl's uncle has told 7.30. "We need not only be blaming the police, the governmentÃâà...
ABC Online
February 28, 2018
The Mayor of Tennant Creek has welcomed tighter controls on takeaway alcohol in the Central Australian town a week after a toddler was allegedly raped during a spike in alcohol-fuelled crime. But he warned locals were willing to drive as far as Queensland to smuggle alcohol back into the troubledÃâà...
The Guardian
February 23, 2018
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 was allegedly raped last week by an adult man. The police confirmed they had made 20 notifications related to the girl's family, including the 16 to TerritoryÃâà...
ABC Online
February 21, 2018
The Northern Territory Acting Chief Minister Nicole Manison and Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw addressed a crowd of angry community members in Tennant Creek on Wednesday, as crisis talks continue over a spike in crime in the region. A 24-year-old man was remanded in custody on TuesdayÃâà...
The Guardian
February 21, 2018
The Indigenous affairs minister has called on the Northern Territory government to be open and transparent about the circumstances preceding the alleged rape of a toddler in Tennant Creek, as dual investigations are launched into claims welfare services were repeatedly contacted in recent weeks.
The Guardian
February 19, 2018
Northern Territory police have charged an adult man over the alleged rape of a toddler in Tennant Creek. The two-year-old child was medically evacuated to Alice Springs on Friday before being transferred to Adelaide Women and Children's hospital the following day. A NT police spokeswoman confirmedÃâà...
ABC Online
December 31, 1999
Tennant Creek doctor Roel Codron told the meeting the time had long passed for tinkering around the edges of trialling alcohol restrictions. "The problems of Tennant Creek are based on alcohol, and the easy availability is causing problems right from pregnancy until death," he said. Mr Codron said he wasÃâà...
ABC Online
December 31, 1999
Currently in Tennant Creek, takeaway alcohol is only for sale between 3-6:00pm Monday to Saturday, and sales per person are limited. During the first week of restrictions, the number of children who needed to be fed at the Barkly Regional Council's after-hours youth centre each evening dropped from 70Ãâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
A Northern Territory minister has defended his government's responses to long-running pleas for help from Tennant Creek, calling for more community responsibility. The director general of licensing is extending strict alcohol bans in Tennant Creek, citing feedback that the town was “unrecognisable” in itsÃâà...
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