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Expressions of Interest open for AWMA Queensland & NSW Regional & Remote Women's Music Program
Expressions of Interest for the Australian Women in Music New South Wales and Qu...
Phoebe Blogg 13 Oct 2026
Police investigating 16yo girl's death after alleged assault in remote NT community
Northern Territory police say a 16-year-old has died in the remote community of...
Dechlan Brennan 12 Oct 2026
Upgrades to airstrip in WA's northernmost community completed as wet season looms
Close to nine hectares of air strip space has been resurfaced with the aim to pr...
Jarred Cross 9 Oct 2026
Aboriginal tenant Joanne Jacobs wins key legal battle over housing rights
In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court of Western Australia found f...
Giovanni Torre 9 Oct 2026
Building on Country: Intract’s award win shows what Black business can deliver
Seven hundred kilometres from the nearest supply hub, Intract Australia delivere...
Nicole Brown 6 Oct 2026
Man rescued, police cars damaged in community unrest

A man has been rescued after seeking refuge in a house during a disturbance involving up to 150 people at a remote community. Two police vehicles were damaged as officers retrieved the 33-year-old man...

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Laine Clark (AAP) Sep 29, 2026
New homes for Homelands through self-determined investment

Six homes at Banatjarl, near Katherine, have been upgraded as part of a joint Australian and Northern Territory Government program to improve housing and essential infrastructure in remote communities...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 29, 2026
Doesn't happen in cities: Remote communities facing water and essential services issues

The Northern Land Council has called on the Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments to urgently address what it says are persistent failures in essential services affecting remote communities...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 21, 2026
'Broken by design' - Kimberley report calls for the end of centralised housing maintenance model

A new report from Kimberley Community Legal Services following a year long survey of 166 public housing tenants has revealed widespread failures in the delivery of public housing maintenance across th...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 17, 2026
Djangadi nursing student named Tropical North Vocational Student of the Year

Djangadi woman Bianca Rickert has been named Vocational Student of the Year at the 2026 Queensland Training Awards Tropical North Region final while studying nursing and working in aged care on Thursd...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Sep 17, 2026
Thousands at risk: New report calls out gap in safe drinking water standards in remote First Nations communities

A new report from the Water Services Association of Australia has found that more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities were supplied with water that did not meet the Australian...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 16, 2026
'Breach of basic human rights': Communications outages blight remote communities for weeks on end

A national outage which affected thousands of people's ability to access mobile services "fell short of what Australians rightly expect from us", Telstra's chief executive said last week, but for some...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Sep 8, 2026
Mobile TAFE brings training to regional, remote NT communities

Four new Mobile TAFE projects are set to deliver skills and training to directly to the next generation of workers in regional and remote communities across the Northern Territory.

Callan Morse Callan Morse Sep 7, 2026
More than 300 remote SA homes upgraded under $200m housing program

More than 300 homes across remote South Australia have received upgrades aimed at improving energy efficiency and climate resilience. On Sunday, the Federal and South Australian governments said 343 h...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 6, 2026
Young Indigenous man visited remote health services several times before he died

This report includes the name and image of a person who has died. A First Nations man went to remote health services several times in the lead-up to his death from pneumonia at the age of 31, an inque...

Funding backs community-led visions across the Northern Territory

Five projects across remote and regional Northern Territory communities have received funding to strengthen their plans, attract future investment and turn community-led visions into reality.

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown Aug 31, 2026
New, improved and mobile laundry facilities for remote communities to tackle preventable disease

Remote First Nations communities and homelands across Northern Australia will set up new, or upgrade existing, community laundry facilities, aimed in-part at targeting preventable illnesses.

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Aug 27, 2026
Mobile TAFE training for remote WA communities

Vocational education opportunities are set to be offered much closer to home for remote communities across Western Australia following a $5 million investment in two new mobile TAFE projects.

Callan Morse Callan Morse Aug 26, 2026
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