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The NT Independent Newspaper. The Finocchiaro Government has proposed changing child protection laws to override national guidelines, making it easier for courts to place Indigenous children in the care of non-Indigenous families to avoid the child being put at risk, but the NT Children’s Commissioner Shahleena Musk has argued the changes go against the evidence of what is best for children ...
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WATCH THE VIDEO: A video of prominent Darwin silk Jon Tippett recorded in the police watch house shortly after he was arrested for drunkenly crashing into a police car last November, shows him repeatedly laughing at the situation while asking officers to “make it a whole lot easier” on him, the NT Independent can reveal.
What’s on this Australia Day across the Territory
2 days ago · Here’s a list of activities planned for this Australia Day across the Northern Territory, including free pool entries, fighter jet fly-overs, the annual ute run and many more festivities on tap this Sunday. Australia Day Ute Run – Hidden Valley Raceway From …
Man surrenders after siege: police | NT Independent
6 days ago · A man who was allegedly chased from the Alice Springs Hospital by police because of an outstanding arrest warrant for domestic violence, allegedly threatened to burn down the house he was holed up in during what police described as a siege. Police director of communications Mark Wilton said in a ...
NT Business News - January 21 | NT Independent
5 days ago · Business news from across the Northern Territory: Latest highlights include the NT’s first magnetite shipment leaving for Asia, the Federal Government committing an additional $200 million to boost the NT’s rare earths mine, and MetalsGrove announcing encouraging exploration findings. Also making resource news is energy company Echelon making further acquisitions in …
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NT Independent is an award-winning online newspaper based in Australia’s Northern Territory and the platform for community debate. We will be exposing corruption and mismanagement in the public service as well as reporting on business, crime and other stories that matter.
Editorial: The lobbyists are on the payroll in the NT ... - NT …
Dec 9, 2023 · EDITORIAL: It is “absolutely appropriate” Nicole Manison told Territorians this week for the Chief Minister’s most senior adviser to also run a consultancy company that lobbies for the gas industry, and in so doing, proved just how corrupt, incompetent and morally compromised this government is. The NT Independent revealed this week that Fyles’ senior adviser Gerard Richardson’s ...
NT Independent takes home another NT Media Award for …
Oct 14, 2024 · The NT Independent has won another NT Media Award, this time for Best Text News Coverage, beating out the ABC and The Australian, marking the fifth gong for the online newspaper since starting in March 2020.. On Saturday night editor Christopher Walsh took out the award with his entry Shares Scandal: The Fall of Chief Minister Natasha Fyles.. It followed Walsh being named as a finalist in the ...
What happened? The NT Independent’s biggest stories from July …
Jan 14, 2023 · Read the NT Independent's award winning coverage of Territory news from the second half of 2022, the biggest stories, many broken exclusively by the NT Independent. All the scandal, incompetence, crime, corruption and analysis.
Opinion: Rising social conflicts and escalating debt, mean a bleak ...
Sep 29, 2024 · Foremost amongst some of the worst examples of this have occurred in NT land councils, and are still continuing. For example, the Commonwealth has recently frozen funding for the Anindilyakwa Land Council, after it failed to act on recommendations following a governance probe. The audit came ahead of claims the ALC misused millions of dollars in mining royalties, some of which benefited ...