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…

The Northern Territory government has cancelled almost $70 million (US448.8 million) in rental debt for remote Indigenous communities amid allegations the housing is not up to scratch. Treasurer Eva Lawler, in late June, scrapped the debt following court action by Aboriginal residents at Laramba and Santa Teresa in central Australia, near Alice Springs, not-for-profit litigators…

An outbreak of banana freckle in the Northern Territory is continuing to grow, with infections found at 12 more sites. The Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade’s biosecurity team has found evidence of the fungal pathogen at Fly Creek, Batchelor, Marrakai and on the Tiwi Islands. The latest discoveries take the number of infected sites…

The former chief minister of Australia’s Northern Territory (NT), Michael Gunner, has resigned from parliament to spend more time with family just two months after stepping down from the territory’s top job. Making the announcement in parliament on Wednesday night, the 46-year-old said the months since his resignation as a chief minister had allowed him…

NASA has successfully launched its second rocket from Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) after initial delays due to bad wind and rain conditions. The launch on July 6 is the second of three NASA rockets to be launched from the Arnhem Space Centre in NT. The mission is to measure ultraviolet light from stars and find which…

NASA has successfully launched its second rocket from Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) after initial delays due to bad wind and rain conditions. The launch on July 6 is the second of three NASA rockets to be launched from the Arnhem Space Centre in NT. The mission is to measure ultraviolet light from stars and find which…

Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) saw the successful launch of the first of three NASA rockets from the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) on Sunday, marking NASA’s first-ever launch from a fully commercial spaceport and the first-ever commercial launch in Australia. Along with the other two launches scheduled for July 4 and 12, the rocket conducted astrophysics…

Amid the backdrop of the United States and Australia strengthening military co-operation while tensions in the Indo-Pacific ramp up, U.S. Marines are currently undertaking protection and evacuation training in Australia’s Northern Territory. The group, part of a contingent of more than 2,000 marines based in Darwin until October, are stationed on Bathurst Island, part of…

One of Australia’s most controversial COVID-19 quarantine camps, Howard Springs Centre for National Resilience, will be closed by authorities, along with other vaccination and testing centres. The Northern Territory government revealed that it would not be renewing the public health emergency order set to end on June 16, bringing an end to the territories vaccine mandates and…

NASA will launch a series of rockets into space from the Northern Territory starting this month, marking the first time the space exploration giant has launched rockets from a commercial facility outside the U.S. Between June 26 and July 12, three scientific suborbital sounding rockets will be launched from the Arnhem Space Centre, marking the…