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NT Government extends alcohol bans in Aboriginal communities and town camps
The Northern Territory Government has announced an extension of the total alcoho...
Dechlan Brennan 18 Jun 2026
Community safety at risk if alcohol protections lapse, NT Aboriginal health body warns
The Northern Territory Government must provide certainty about how it will maint...
Dechlan Brennan 4 Jun 2026
Indigenous health bodies back coordinated response to diphtheria outbreak
The Commonwealth government's funding package in response to the country's large...
Dechlan Brennan 21 May 2026
Closing the Gap data sparks calls for overhaul of ‘failing’ policies
Governments are being urged to abandon fear narratives and return to evidence-ba...
Dechlan Brennan 19 Mar 2026
Experienced leader steps into key Central Australian Aboriginal health role
One of the Territory's most experienced Aboriginal health leaders is set to lead...
Dechlan Brennan 3 Mar 2026
Big Rivers Region welcomes first cohort of Aboriginal health trainees

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) and Sunrise Health Service Aboriginal Corporation have marked a milestone in the Big Rivers Region, with the first cohort of traine...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Feb 17, 2026
Katherine West Health Board backs greater urgency, more action to implement Coroner's domestic violence recommendations

The Katherine West Health Board has welcomed the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory's report card assessing progress made against the Coroner's Inquest into the deaths of four Abo...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 16, 2026
Aboriginal health alliance questions NT’s domestic violence response

There is inconsistent, partial, and at times absent alignment between the recommendations made by the Northern Territory Coroner into the "national shame" of domestic violence and the NT government's...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 10, 2026
Support at home and in community key to improving NT school attendance

Families and communities must support children to attend school, the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) says, stressing that education is fundamental to health, opportuni...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 29, 2026
Liver cancer survival for Aboriginal Territorians triples under NT-designed Hep B program

Survival rates for Aboriginal people with liver cancer are now three times higher than in the mid-2000s, with experts crediting the remarkable improvement in part to a Northern Territory-designed hepa...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 15, 2025
Aboriginal leaders urge men to confront violence ahead of holiday period

A Northern Territory health alliance says men, families, and community leaders need to unite to prevent violence against women and children over the holiday period.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 10, 2025
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory welcomes new CEO

Dr Donna Ah Chee has been appointed chief executive officer of the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT), marking a significant moment for Aboriginal community-controlled he...

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown Dec 8, 2025
NT Aboriginal health leaders mark Diabetes Feet Day with call for greater investment in foot health

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory and Central Australian Aboriginal Congress have called for greater awareness and investment in foot health to prevent avoidable amputations...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 12, 2025
NT Police launch first anti-racism strategy following years of systemic racism accusations

After years of criticism over racism within the force, the Northern Territory Police have launched their first-ever anti-racism strategy. The strategy, led by the NT Police's Cultural Reform Command d...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 7, 2025
Report finds remote NT Aboriginal health services struggling due to chronic neglect

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) are delivering vital care across the Northern Territory, but chronic neglect - including outdated infrastructure, staff shortages, and "burdens...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 31, 2025
Aboriginal health leader Dr John Patterson retires after four decades of advocacy in NT

Dr John Patterson, a leading voice for change and Aboriginal health in the Northern Territory for more than 40 years, will retire as CEO of the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 25, 2025
NT Government policies ‘causing more harm than good,’ advocates warn

The Northern Territory government's tough-on-crime approach is "negatively impacting mainly Indigenous families and communities," while failing to improve community safety, according to more than 20 a...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 28, 2025
NT Government starts PR blitz ahead of controversial capsicum spray trial

The Northern Territory Government will proceed this week with a controversial plan to allow members of the public to carry Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) spray, despite strong criticism from experts and comm...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 18, 2025
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