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NT’s child protection overhaul ignores decades of evidence, advocates say
Australia's peak advocate for First Nations children says changes to a principle...
Dechlan Brennan 15 May 2026
Exclusive: 'We need to fix the system' - NT Shadow Minister for Child Protection urges reforms
The Northern Territory Opposition spokesperson on child protection, Chansey Paec...
Giovanni Torre 6 May 2026
Vulnerable Territorians left in heat outside Mparntwe/Alice Springs Centrelink, Labor MP says
The Northern Territory opposition attorney-general has written to the federal go...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Apr 2026
NT Labor MP launches petition over public housing neglect in remote communities
The Northern Territory Government must address the ongoing neglect of public hou...
Dechlan Brennan 14 Jan 2026
End-of-life reform progresses in NT as Aboriginal leaders urge cultural caution

Northern Territory Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby says the CLP Government will introduce legislation on the rights of terminally ill people, following the findings of the 2025 Voluntary Assisted...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jan 5, 2026
Children in detention being taken from Alice Springs to Darwin without families knowing, parliament told

Northern Territory Corrections has confirmed there is no legal requirement to notify parents or guardians when their children are transferred, as the NT Government this week acknowledged children from...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 29, 2025
Chansey Paech tables unreleased report alleging mismanagement at Yipirinya School, slams disgraced former principal

Northern Territory MP Chansey Paech has tabled a previously unreleased report into Yipirinya School, accusing the CLP government of sitting on the document for months while the school was plunged into...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 27, 2025
'Disrespectful and offensive to our creative community': Top End flagship project in doubt

A government task force is deciding the future of Darwin's flagship art gallery building - and it could become a mixed-use office block instead.

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Liz Hobday Nov 14, 2025
Exclusive: NT Shadow Attorney-General demands full disclosure on government interference in the courts

Northern Territory Shadow Attorney-General Chansey Paech has called for the government to make public in full correspondence from the NT's Chief Justice regarding political interference in the Supreme...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 18, 2025
Paech to abstain from VAD vote despite personal support, citing poor Indigenous consultation

Northern Territory Shadow Attorney-General Chansey Paech has broken ranks with his Labor colleagues, announcing he will abstain from voting on the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) bill.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 16, 2025
Price accuses Labor and Greens of 'protecting predators' as Paech labels claims a 'harmful myth'

Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has accused Labor and the Greens of "protecting predators" in remote communities, claiming Australia is "too afraid" to confront the issue of women being 'prom...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 24, 2025
Chansey Paech urges action over remote Northern Territory community violence

The Northern Territory's Shadow Attorney General has called for urgent action after footage emerged of children fighting as adults cheered them on in a remote community.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 12, 2025
Trust, Truth and $150 Million: Telstra’s New Chapter in Reconciliation

DARWIN, LARRAKIA COUNTRY - Telstra pledged to spend $150 million with Indigenous businesses over the next three years as part of its sixth Reconciliation Action Plan, launched yesterday at the...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Aug 1, 2025
New Northern Territory DV approach "risks taking a step backward"

The Northern Territory government has axed a forum providing policy advice on the prevention of domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV), instead reconstructing the panel alongside other governmen...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 11, 2025
Yiŋiya Mark Guyula urges mob "sleeping in the long grass" to return to communitiy to escape "bad laws"

Northern Territory MP Yiŋiya Mark Guyula has urged Mob "camping and sleeping in long grass" to return to their communities to avoid "bad laws".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 22, 2024
“We want to see community-led solutions": Indigenous MPs decry new NT bail laws

Despite going against the recommendations of experts and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, breaches of bail by children as young as ten in the Northern Territory will now be a cr...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 17, 2024
Remote Territorians felt disenfranchised after Voice referendum defeat, Chansey Paech says

Former Northern Territory attorney general Chansey Paech says many Indigenous Territorians felt disenfranchised going into the recent NT election.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 15, 2024
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