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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
Aboriginal Territorian launches legal challenge to NT compensation caps
A young Aboriginal Territorian has launched a Federal Court challenge against No...
Dechlan Brennan 9 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 ann...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Jul 2026
'Politics over evidence': Fury as NT committee endorses child protection bill
A Northern Territory parliamentary committee has recommended passing the controv...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Jul 2026
Canberra issues warning to NT Government over legal aid crisis amid 'tough on crime' crackdown

The federal Attorney-General has written to the Northern Territory government expressing concern that the CLP's "tough on crime" policies are not being matched with investment in legal agencies.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 27, 2026
No funding spent under $842 million NT remote Aboriginal services agreement, documents reveal

Money from a joint $842 million Commonwealth-Northern Territory funding agreement to support key Aboriginal services in remote communities has yet to be spent, despite the Territory's declining closin...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 25, 2026
NT youth justice changes risks traumatising vulnerable children, legal organisation warns

Changes to the Northern Territory's youth justice laws, which would give police the power to charge, question and detain young people for up to 48 hours without a legal guardian present, will "expose...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 22, 2026
NT Government the 'most racist' I've seen: Lidia Thorpe

Aboriginal people are "homeless on our own country", Senator Lidia Thorpe has told a housing conference in Darwin, as she labelled the current NT Government the "most racist" she has seen in her lifet...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 20, 2026
Legal group demands transparency over NT watch house detentions

The Northern Territory must commit to transparency over people being held in watch houses and end the long-term detention of people in such facilities, a leading Indigenous legal group says.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 28, 2026
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
Aboriginal nurse training program aims to strengthen local healthcare delivery

Aboriginal school leavers in the Northern Territory will be offered supported career pathways into nursing and midwifery under a new government program.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 13, 2026
Fuel crisis prompts first use of 1940s price exploitation laws in the Northern Territory

The Northern Territory government says it has taken an "unprecedented" step by enacting legislation for the first time in response to the fuel cost crisis.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 31, 2026
'Wrong choice': backlash before administrator ceremony

A last-minute apology for "racist" social media posts by a territory's incoming administrator does not change anything, an Aboriginal Elder says.

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Laine Clark Feb 27, 2026
Indigenous businesses excluded from NT’s new Defence Industry Council

Indigenous business leaders in the Northern Territory say the NT government's newly announced Defence Industry Council represents "another missed opportunity" to strengthen the Territory's defence eco...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 25, 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
NT youth justice system failing Aboriginal children, NAAJA warns in scathing senate submission

The Commonwealth Government must take a more active role in holding the Northern Territory Government accountable for youth justice outcomes, according to the Territory's largest provider of Aborigina...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 3, 2026
NT opens women-only bail accommodation in Mparntwe/Alice Springs

The Northern Territory Government has announced the opening of a women-only bail accommodation facility in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, following months of criticism over the treatment of people held on re...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 22, 2026
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