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NT Police Commissioner shown the door after "jobs for mates" ICAC findings
The Northern Territory's top cop has been given his marching orders after a jobs...
Andrea Hayward 9 Mar 2025
Interstate police deployed to the Red Centre
Northern Territory police have sought assistance from their South Australia coll...
Dechlan Brennan 6 Jan 2025
Spit hoods to be used on children in the NT again, Police Commissioner confirms
Spit hoods will be used on children in the Northern Territory, the Police Commis...
Dechlan Brennan 14 Oct 2024
NT Police Officer sacked for alleged racist remarks "on repeated occasions"
A Northern Territory police officer has been sacked after allegedly making racis...
Dechlan Brennan 19 Aug 2024
NT intervention 'totally justified', former PM says

The Northern Territory intervention was "totally justified", former prime minister John Howard has declared after the territory's police commissioner apologised for the force's involvement.

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Caitlin Powell Aug 19, 2024
NT Police Commissioner should have apologised to Yuendumu community first, Warlpiri Elder says

Warlpiri Elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves says whilst Elders "welcomed" Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy's apology at the recent Garma Festival, it should have been made to the comm...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 7, 2024
NT Police Commissioner resigns from union following criticism of apology to Indigenous people

Northern Territory's Police Commissioner has taken the unprecedented step of quitting the NT Police Association after the union criticised his historic apology to Indigenous people at the Garma Festiv...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 7, 2024
Police culture 'must shift' after apology to Indigenous

A historic apology for police injustices inflicted on First Nations people will lose its significance if not matched by a cultural shift within the NT force.

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Alex Mitchell Aug 5, 2024
'A good idea' to acknowledge Australia's history: PM

Acknowledging the history of injustice against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is a good idea but it is important to celebrate the community's successes, the prime minister says.

NT Police Commissioner apologises to Indigenous Territorians for force's past harms and injustices

Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has apologised to Aboriginal Territorians for "the past harms and the injustices caused by members of the Northern Territory Police".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 3, 2024
Alice Springs looks beyond curfew to long-term social solutions

As Alice Springs emerges from its second curfew in three months, there is little appetite for more in the Northern Territory town. Thursday night was the town's first after a three-day public social d...

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Jacob Sheytman Jul 12, 2024
‘Entrenched disregard for Aboriginal people': Central Land Council slams NT Police Commissioner's lack of apology for inaction on racism

Comments by the Northern Territory's police commissioner that he was too "busy" to order an investigation into racist behaviour among elite police officers shows an "entrenched disregard for Aborigina...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 21, 2024
Family still pained by Kumanjayi Walker's death

Kumanjayi Walker's family have told an inquest into his death the teenager is still much loved and missed. The 19-year-old Warlpiri Luritja teenager was fatally shot by then-constable Zachary Rolfe in...

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Keira Jenkins May 30, 2024
Police Commissioner knew about racist awards despite denying knowledge of racism in NT Force

The Northern Territory Police Commissioner has agreed he was "gaslighting" Aboriginal people when he said he had not seen racism in the force earlier this year, an inquest has heard.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 29, 2024
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