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BIZARRE: 3 - What They Never Told You

How the rising cost of living is squeezing budgets and changing lives across Australia

Tambikos Driss has ditched the airconditioning, kitchen oven and now meat to get by, and he's not alone.

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Prime Minister to announce Australia's first referendum in 20 years at Garma Festival. Here's what you might be asked

In a major announcement on Saturday at the Garma Festival, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will unveil a draft question that Australians could be asked during a referendum to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

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Northern Australian beaches inundated by thousands of tonnes of plastic waste from Asia

An endless array of rubbish, from lighters to toothbrushes and medical syringes, inundate hundreds of kilometres of northern Australia's coastline in their tonnes.

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Two women, including police officer, face Darwin court on separate charges of disclosing information

A Northern Territory Police officer and another woman have had their cases heard in court for the first time, separately accused of disclosing confidential information.

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Charles Darwin University returns to north-east Arnhem Land to deliver courses on country

University courses have returned to a far-flung corner of the Northern Territory, in a bid to try and turn around high unemployment rates, and skill people up in remote communities.

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NASA's inaugural Northern Territory mission is over, but hopes for a space industry boom remain

Three rockets fired from the remote Northern Territory have signalled a new hope for a region in need of economic diversity — that the space industry could help launch them into the future.

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Tourists stranded in the NT amid widespread Qantas group flight cancellations

Melbourne locals Erin Watkins and Mick Porter are among hundreds of people stranded in the Northern Territory due to a high volume of recent flight cancellations by Qantas and its budget subsidiary Jetstar.

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NT Health Department preparing to remove hospital heads in Darwin, Palmerston

Departments heads at two of the Northern Territory's largest hospitals will be removed and forced to reapply for their jobs, amid a rise in influenza and COVID-19 cases.

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Northern Australia's fire management and mapping: How the integration of 'old and new' has led to success

For nearly two decades, researchers have been mapping fires in Northern Australia's tropical savannas and rangelands. This is what they found.

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Overcrowding creates 'unacceptable' prison conditions at Darwin Correctional Centre, lawyers claim

Staffing shortages and overcrowding are creating "unacceptable" conditions at Darwin Correctional Centre, legal advocates claim.

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Howard Springs quarantine facility — Australia's COVID-19 'port' — now in stand-by mode

It's the end of an era for the Howard Springs quarantine facility, with Australia's so-called "gold standard" infection management and control centre shutting its doors.

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NASA rocket launch sees Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy focus in on its post-mining future

With the first NASA rocket now launched from the Arnhem Space Centre, locals have their sights set on the stars, hoping it can be an industry that will bring tourists and jobs to the region.

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Isolated children in the NT relish chance to play with others as mobile playgroup returns to Brunette Downs Races

Many children in remote and isolated areas of Australia can go for weeks or months without seeing kids their own age. This playgroup is helping them connect, despite distance.

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Iconic Brunette Races in Barkly region returns after drought, floods and COVID-19 cancellations

Hundreds of people have travelled to the Northern Territory's remote Barkly region for the famous Brunette races, after recent cancellations threatened the event.

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NT solar farms sitting idle, some more than two years after construction

Four solar farms in the Northern Territory are sitting idle, years after construction.

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'Combat credible' US marines train on NT's Tiwi Islands as US continues focus on Indo-Pacific region

The US Marine Corp says this year's deployment to Darwin is the most "combat-credible" group sent yet, as the troops complete a week of intense training on the remote Tiwi Islands.

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In Woolner fire, a Darwin birthplace and business for NT brothers burns to the ground

"Your life has flashed before you," is how Kerry Kyriacou describes watching last Thursday's fire in Darwin that razed his and his brother's joinery business, which his father started more than 60 years ago.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promises action to improve remote voting after Lingiari turnout hits all-time low

Anthony Albanese accuses the former government of deliberately making it more difficult for remote voters to cast a ballot, after turnout in an electorate covering some of the most disadvantaged parts of Australia drops to a new low.

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NT 'not currently planning' to expand free flu vaccine schedule, despite surge in cases

The Northern Territory has recorded its highest number of influenza cases in at least five years, putting significant pressure on an already stretched hospital system.

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Case of man charged with murder over Cutta Cutta Caves shooting could move to NT Supreme Court

A man accused of fatally shooting another man near the Top End town of Katherine has appeared in court via videolink, before the case is likely moved to the Supreme Court.

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Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles announces first cabinet, Eva Lawler named new Treasurer

The NT Government has named a new Treasurer, Attorney-General and police minister, while Chief Minister Natasha Fyles retains her position as health minister.

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Federal election results for the NT are becoming clearer. Here's what we know so far

While some election candidates are already booking flights to Canberra, others are packing up their corflutes and contemplating their next political move.

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Following Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese around Australia in 2022 federal election campaign

Six weeks of campaigning. Six weeks of images. While some could argue there was a lack of policy ideas in the 2022 election campaign, there were plenty of photo opportunities.

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Lack of interpreters and 'unprecedented' challenges leave some remote NT voters in the lurch this election

Some remote communities had just a couple of hours to cast their ballot, while most urbanites had access to pre-polling centres for weeks. Certified interpreters have been scarce and some smaller homelands have missed their chance to vote altogether.

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What are the major election promises for the Northern Territory? Who are the candidates? Where do I vote?

What are the major election promises for the Northern Territory? Who are the candidates? Where do I vote? We answer your questions.

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