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National watchdogs join criticism of NT child protection changes
The fallout from the Northern Territory Government's controversial child protect...
Dechlan Brennan 24 Jul 2026
Cherokee Nation opens new 127-bed hospital in Oklahoma
The Cherokee Nation has completed a US$470 million (AUD 671 million) replacement...
Giovanni Torre 21 Jul 2026
Children's watchdogs urge NT to halt child protection reforms
Advocates for children across the country have called on the Northern Territory...
Dechlan Brennan 15 Jul 2026
Analysis: When every expert is ignored, who is left to speak for children?
If the Northern Territory Government really cares about children, it has an inte...
Dechlan Brennan 10 Jul 2026
Children's Commissioner's resignation lays bare NT government's 'lack of care and accountability'
The resignation of the Northern Territory's Children's Commissioner is evidence...
Dechlan Brennan 10 Jul 2026
NT Children's Commissioner walks away, citing erosion of transparency and child safeguards

The Northern Territory's Children's Commissioner has resigned in a bombshell announcement, citing concerns about the Territory Government's approach to governance, transparency and child protection re...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 9, 2026
First Nations children are growing up with racism. Experts want it recognised as a child rights issue

Children's commissioners from across Australia have used a federal parliamentary inquiry to warn racism against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is widespread, deeply harmful and contrib...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 30, 2026
Aboriginal Hostels board now entirely Indigenous after new appointments

The board of Aboriginal Hostels Limited (AHL) is now entirely Indigenous following the appointment of four new directors and a new deputy chairperson.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 12, 2026
Inquiry submissions overwhelmingly oppose NT child protection reforms

The overwhelming majority of submissions to a Northern Territory parliamentary inquiry into proposed child protection reforms have urged the government to reconsider changes critics say will "ultimate...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 5, 2026
New report shows NT's most vulnerable children left unsafe in state care

The Northern Territory's child protection system is failing to keep many children safe after they are removed from their families, a new report says, with high rates of harm, repeated incidents, major...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 2, 2026
Commissioners urge NT Government to halt changes to Indigenous child placement laws

The Northern Territory Government must urgently halt proposed changes to legislation designed to ensure children removed by the government maintain a connection to family and culture, two Indigenous c...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 12, 2026
Children's commissioner ignored on laws targeting kids

A territory government's treatment of children has gone backwards since a damning royal commission report almost nine years ago, an inquiry has been told.

No NT government department or official to appear before Senate inquiry into youth justice

An inquiry into youth justice hearings in Darwin this week will proceed without any Northern Territory government departments appearing or making submissions, despite the over-representation of Indige...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 27, 2026
NT detention transfers undermine rehabilitation, family connection as children are moved 1500km from Country

The lives of children in detention from Central Australia have been significantly affected by the Northern Territory Government's decision to transfer them more than 1,500 kilometres away from their f...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 29, 2026
New audiovisual installation examines colonial impacts on the Birrarung

A new multichannel audiovisual artwork by multi-disciplinary artist Tahlia Palmer (Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay and mixed European descent), created in collaboration with Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung man Jasper C...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jan 27, 2026
UQ nursing graduate set for medicine pathway

Proud Mitakoodi and Dunghutti woman Mykahlia Douglas has graduated from The University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Nursing and plans to study Medicine through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isl...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jan 15, 2026
Aboriginal Hostels Limited celebrate their graduates for 2025

Aboriginal Hostels Limited marked a proud moment in 2025 by celebrating the graduation of eight Secondary Education hostel residents who have completed Year 12.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 23, 2025
New Chair of Aboriginal Hostels Limited announced

Katrina Fanning AO PSM, the 2020 ACT Australian of the Year, has been appointed Chairperson of Aboriginal Hostels Limited (AHL). AHL operates a national network of accommodation facilities, providing...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 23, 2025
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