John Paterson
In front of more than 8,000 people gathered on Larrakia Country for the 2025 National NAIDOC Week celebration, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) CEO, John Paterson, deli...
Signage on Darwin buses warning passengers they may be removed for wearing stained clothing has been slammed by an Indigenous health organisation, calling it a punitive response which targets the Terr...
Plans to arm Northern Territory public safety officers have been condemned as a "deeply irresponsible escalation" which risks lives, especially those of vulnerable and Aboriginal people.
A proposed 12-month trial allowing the public to carry Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) spray in the Northern Territory will put more lives at risk and fail to improve safety, according to the Territory's peak...
The Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory Aboriginal Corporation "stands in full and unapologetic solidarity" with the communities across the NT who are mourning the loss of two lives in po...
Ten days out from the federal election, the peak body for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in the Northern Territory has called on all political parties to support better health outcome...
Labor's aged care funding in the Northern Territory has been welcomed by the Aboriginal Medical Alliance, which commended the government's "genuine willingness to act".
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...
A 10-year National Strategy to improve food security in remote First Nations communities has been labelled a "critical step forward" in addressing the food crisis.
The federal government has committed $842.6 million over six years to the Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment, funding services like policing, women's safety, education and alcohol harm re...
Programs and services covered under a remote communities agreement go to the heart of what Aboriginal people have been asking for, advocates say. The $842.
More than 100 men at the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (NACCHO) Male Health Conference Day in Canberra have apologised for the "hurt, pain and suffering caused to our wives, to...
Representatives from community, health, research and Aboriginal community-controlled organisations have called on the Northern Territory government to reconsider their plan to scrap the Minimum Unit P...