The Northern Territory government has extended alcohol restrictions in the central town of Alice Springs due to positive results so far, but challenges remain ahead. According to the government, evidence from the Emergency Department of the Alice Springs Hospital showed alcohol-related emergency presentations had been reduced by a third, while alcohol-related harm and assaults have…

The Northern Territory (NT) is looking to replace its current mining royalty scheme with one that is more competitive following a report that found it to be a deterrent to investment. Currently, the territory is looking at changing its profits-based scheme to one that is based on the underlying value of the extracted assets. The…

Fracking in the NT may be one step closer after the territory government released a milestone report into the Beetaloo Basin. The new report was commissioned in response to recommendations from the Pepper inquiry into the gas fracking industry, which said more data was needed before decisions could be made on natural gas extraction in…

Indigenous Senator Kerrynne Liddle has defended comments from Opposition Leader Peter Dutton who said a contentious proposal to change Australia’s Constitution would do little to address crime rates in Aboriginal communities like Alice Springs. Speaking on ABC Radio National on April 14, Liddle said while care was needed to avoid politicising the issue, statistics on…

Commentary Things are awfully out of balance when youths can hold a community for ransom or have them living in fear. This is the unfortunate, indeed devastating, social scenario playing itself out in areas of Australia—think the Northern Territory and Queensland in particular. Crime rates are soaring, communities live in fear, and service providers refuse…

Concerns over flooding have eased in the Top End with the intensity of former tropical cyclone Ellie at last subsiding over the southwestern Northern Territory. A series of earlier severe weather warnings for remote communities in the Simpson, Lasseter and Tanami districts were cancelled by authorities on Sunday morning. The region had been bracing for impact…

Gas giant Santos has lost its bid to restart drilling at a multimillion-dollar gas field off the Tiwi Islands, but the company is confident the project can stay on track. The full Federal Court on Friday dismissed Santos’s appeal, upholding an earlier decision that the offshore gas regulator should not have approved drilling in the Barossa gas…

An Australian senator has pushed back against the move to legalise euthanasia in Australia’s territories, saying that it will “depreciate the value we place on life” under the banner of human rights. The comment comes following the introduction of a private bill dubbed Restoring Territory Rights, which aims to hand the Northern Territory and the…

A senator is pushing back against the move to legalise euthanasia in Australia’s territories, saying it will “depreciate the value we place on life” under the banner of human rights. The comment comes following the introduction of a private bill dubbed Restoring Territory Rights, which aims to hand the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital…

An Australian judge has warned of a “new ‘anti-racism’ religion” and says overuse of the term “racist” is unhelpful and dishonest.  Speaking at the 2022 Women Lawyers’ Drinks on Aug. 26, Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly said while past Australian governments had racist policies, “the fact that some contemporary problems have been caused…