municipalities of Australia's Northern Territory

THREE years ago, a former Territory firefighter and ADF member walked 400km from the Victorian country town of Mildura to Adelaide. On Saturday, almost 1000 Territorians joined the march. PHILLIPPA BUTT. NT NewsApril 28, 20184:25pm. Amy, Elliot and James (5) McDonough and Zoe Lymbery (4) participated in the ...

In the tiny Northern Territory town of Larrimah, everyone hears everything: road trains passing, wild donkeys braying and the shouts of “murderer” as cars hurtle along the ... They're yelling at a 75-year-old grandma who earns a crust making pies — and none of the town's other 10 residents is surprised.

Indigenous residents have feared lead would show up in their drinking water since 2014, when it was revealed Glencore's McArthur River Mine lead-zinc operation had contaminated cattle and fish. The company was forced to admit it was the source of the pollution after the Northern Territory Environment ...

The disease wiped out millions of dollars worth of crops in the Queensland town of Emerald in 2004, and was last detected in the Northern Territory in ... Citrus Australia said there were a number of Darwin properties that could be affected, and that it could impact local trade and trade to some capital cities.

The One Mile Dam town camp, bordering the Darwin city centre, has had long-running housing problems, with about half the residences having no water or electricity, and many of them being little more than fenced sheds. Bagot community on the outskirts of Darwin has reported overcrowding and social ...

The review by Deloitte examined a range of issues in the 43 camps, including housing quality, land tenure, municipal services and community aspirations. Residents of town camps, which are situated within Northern Territory towns including Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Elliot, have ...

Would you trust a chat bot powered by artificial intelligence to help draft your last will and testament? In the Northern Territory town of Coolalinga, it's already happening. For $150, a chat bot called Ailira will help you make a will — and since the service began in November last year, hundreds of people ...

IT'S the Aussie outback town that — after decades awash with welfare and booze — is front and centre of a shameful child protection crisis. ... The Northern Territory town might have stayed out of sight, out of mind if it wasn't for the searing media scrutiny of an alleged toddler rape in February that rattled ...

IT'S the Aussie outback town that - after decades awash with welfare and booze - is front and centre of a shameful child protection crisis. The Tennant Creek community - at the heart of the country - has been hiding sinister secrets about crimes too ugly to visualise. The Northern Territory town might have ...

The location has become a sprawling tent city for 150,000 refugees and is a “maze of misery and toil”, Fr O'Riordan says. ... Similar efforts being used in both poor, white and aboriginal towns, in Australia and the Northern Territory, remind Fr O'Riordan “very much what we were trying to do in Moyross”.

While Sydney ranked 32 in the list of the world's most expensive cities, it was the 16th most expensive city in terms of rent, according to Numbeo. ... The Northern Territory capital might be small in size - with a total population of about 250,000 people - but it's also home to some of the highest prices for fuel ...

The Northern Territory town of Katherine has had the good fortune to be dealt a hand from a pack stacked with aces. Like many territory towns, Katherine has its problems. It's expensive to truck goods .... “We offer them a bit of the lifestyle they had back in the city,” says Armstrong. The staff and families from ...

Malcolm Turnbull has sent his thoughts to Darwin, in a phone call to the chief minister five days after Cyclone Marcus tore through the city. The prime minister contacted the Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, on Wednesday morning, speaking for about three to four minutes. They mainly ...

The director general of licensing is extending strict alcohol bans in Tennant Creek, citing feedback that the town was “unrecognisable” in its improvement, however the minister, Gerry Barkly, who is also the local MP, said that was more due to people going to other towns that did not have restrictions.

The ceremony began with a powerful welcome to country from Lieutenant Nigel Brown, while Northern Territory Administrator Vicky O'Halloran laid the first ... More than 1,000 people covered the top of Anzac Hill in the centre of town, and about 200 people attended the dawn service in Tennant Creek.

News.com.au has learned that a four-year-old girl has also allegedly been indecently assaulted by a relative in the troubled outback town of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Indecent assault is a type of sexual assault that involves unwanted touching of a person's body by another person.