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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.

ABC News · Jul 30, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jul 29, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jul 22, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jul 12, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jul 7, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jul 3, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jun 29, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jun 27, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jun 21, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jun 20, 2022