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NT bail laws crack down halts court as arrests explode
Prisoners howled in the back of court cells, screaming for help, as unprecedente...
(A)manda Parkinson 7 Jan 2025
PM remembers Cyclone Tracy, 50 years on
An emotional Anthony Albanese has reflected on the devastation of Cyclone Tracy...
(A)manda Parkinson 24 Dec 2024
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Humanity lost in dealing with prisoners, inquest into Indigenous man's death told
Use of restraints on prisoners in hospital has taken away their dignity and thei...
(A)manda Parkinson 11 Dec 2024
Land claim dispute gets day in court, 25 years on
For decades two clans have been locked in a feud over the rightful ownership of...
(A)manda Parkinson 9 Dec 2024
"National shame" - horrific violence against women in the NT
"It cannot be normal that men hurt us women. "Edna's grief ricocheted through th...
(A)manda Parkinson 9 Dec 2024
Racism role in death at centre of teen shooting inquiry

Former police constable Zachary Rolfe's "fascination with violence" barely featured in his criminal trial but during Australia's longest-running coronial inquest his actions have been characterised as...

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(A)manda Parkinson Nov 30, 2024
'Undeniable': police label ex-cop a racist at inquest

The former police officer who fatally shot an Indigenous teenager during a botched arrest has been labelled a racist by the force which employed him.

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(A)manda Parkinson Nov 29, 2024
Cop's lawyer urges caution for coroner on racism claims

Evidence suggesting racism or racist behaviour in the Northern Territory police force when Zachary Rolfe fatally shot Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker is irrelevant to a coronial inquest, the poli...

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(A)manda Parkinson Nov 28, 2024
'Tell the truth': Indigenous family's plea for justice

For two years the cry from Kumanjayi Walker's family has been simple: "tell the truth". When an inquest into his death began on September 5, 2022 family members created a sign with those three words t...

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(A)manda Parkinson Nov 27, 2024
'Whatever it takes': child removal floated to tackle DV

A government is considering ways of removing at-risk Aboriginal children from families following a coronial inquest into domestic violence. Territory Families chief executive Emma White has been direc...

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(A)manda Parkinson Nov 26, 2024
'National shame': Landmark inquest into killings of Aboriginal women shines light on DV

Three years before Malcolm Abbott murdered Kumarn Rubuntja she told the country the violence had to stop. Those words open the findings from Northern Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage's landmark in...

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(A)manda Parkinson Nov 25, 2024
'Armageddon': the cultural cost of disturbing Gunlom

It is said Bula sleeps at Gunlom Falls, at the base of sickness country; a spirit so powerful the Jawoyn people liken it to Armageddon. Until 2019, thousands of tourists traipsed through the culturall...

Children set to leave Don Dale amid jail overcrowding

Children are set to be moved out of Darwin's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre for the final time, as an overburdened Northern Territory jail system continues to play musical beds with prisoners.

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