Northern Territory
Australia Is Closing Immigration Detention Centres But it's Not All Good News
It's good because it means there are fewer detainees, but bad because the remaining detainees might go to Nauru.
Northern Territory Scientists Are Making the Banana Australians Deserve
Like all good things it's going to take cloning, mutation, and a bit of random luck.
NT Community Groups are Blaming Aerosol Death on Government Funding Cuts
Following the death of a 12-year-old boy from sniffing cans of deodorant, the Alice Spring's community is claiming funding cuts to outreach programs are leaving troubled youth more isolated that ever.
A Guy Found a Severed Finger That Turned Out to be Coral
We spoke to a marine biologist to understand how some coral provoked a police investigation.
Australia Is Locking Up Mentally Impaired Aboriginal Men in Jail Indefinitely
A government commission found that the country didn't live up to human rights obligations when it allowed individuals who could not be tried in court to be indefinitely incarcerated.
What We Learned About Australians By Looking At Their Weird Google Searches
The bad news is this country is fucked. The good news is all the stereotypes you hang your whole sense of humour on are pretty much true.
Punishment, Employment, and Prison Dollars in the Top End
Peter is tanned, tattooed and wearing a high-vis shirt. He looks a lot like the other construction workers, except he’s currently serving a 12-year sentence.
Volunteer-Run Morgues Are a Terrible Idea
Australia’s Northern Territory is huge, sparsely populated, poor, and crawling with deadly animals. It’s not surprising, then, that it doesn’t attract many professional types.
Who is Adam GIles?
Australia’s first Aboriginal head of a government has come to power, but under shady circumstances that are becoming all too common. Is this an Obama moment?
Typhoid, Horny Female Truckies and an Onslaught of Weed
Two outbreaks swept through the Northern Territory last week, forcing government intervention and scrambled attempts to warn the public. One was a weed known as rubber vine, the other, typhoid.
Watermelon Attacks, Rogue Cows and Dog Sperm Thieves
Car bombs tore through Iraq this week, killing 17 people. In Darwin, a man climbed on a bus and attacked a bus driver with a watermelon.
Fugitive Pigs, Shitting Echidnas and a Sandwich Fight
Last week, the Northern Territory was wracked by a four-day fugitive pig hunt in Darwin, a crisis that engulfed the council, police, government and the public at large.