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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.
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...
One of the country's largest Indigenous legal services has called on the Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments to "urgently fix glaring inequities and failures" in the emergency response to...
Warning: The following article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died, with the permission of family, as well as content and language some readers may find distressingThe sister of an...
The Northern Territory's Child Protection Minister is being urged to work more closely with frontline organisations and her own department to prioritise young people, after a coalition of legal and co...
The Northern Territory's four land councils - Anindilyakwa Land Council, Central Land Council, Northern Land Council and Tiwi Land Council - have united with the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Ag...
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...
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...
Northern Territory Police say they are continuing to investigate the death of an Aboriginal woman at the Tennant Creek watch house, as criticism continues over police conducting internal investigation...
The Northern Territory's controversial bail laws — which have driven a sharp increase in the number of people held on remand, the majority of them Aboriginal — are set to be challenged in...
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following story contains the name and image of a person who has died. Territorians are mourning the death of Geoffrey Shaw OAM, a...
The Northern Territory's largest Indigenous legal organisation has welcomed UN criticism of states and territories' "tough on crime" policies, which they says fail to make communities safe.
All inmates currently held in Northern Territory watch houses should be removed "as a matter of urgency," the Territory's Ombudsman has found, describing the facilities as "unacceptably poor" and "inh...