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With anti-discrimination changes, Northern Territory has some of the world's most progressive sex work laws. It wasn't always that way

In a world-first, anti-discrimination changes passed in the Northern Territory this week create explicit protections for sex workers. It comes after the Northern Terrritory became only the second Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise sex work.

ABC News · Nov 26, 2022

National Aboriginal Art Gallery being built on sacred site divides community as Indigenous leaders call for 'respect'

It's being spruiked as a future tourist magnet that will celebrate 65,000 years of culture, that will stimulate central Australia's economy. But it is dividing the Alice Springs community

ABC News · Nov 21, 2022

Mystery of a Northern Territory man’s disappearance solved, almost 25 years after he vanished from the Tiwi Islands

When Djarrwalkpuy Yunupingu, a teacher’s aide and much-loved father, failed to return home to the Tiwi Islands in 1996, his family were left with more questions than answers. Now, they finally know what happened to him.

ABC News · Nov 11, 2022

Northern Territory, Australia's homicide capital, calls for needs-based model to increase share of domestic violence funding

First Nations women in the Northern Territory are murdered at up to 12 times the national average. Yet, ABC's Four Corners can reveal the territory receives just 1.8 per cent of the funding designed to prevent it.

ABC News · Oct 24, 2022

NT's Blacktip gas field production drops, forcing shutdown of Northern Gas Pipeline

Production from the offshore field which supplies gas for the Top End's electricity generation has decreased by nearly 50 per cent this year.

ABC News · Oct 22, 2022

Oil and gas industry will no longer get free water in NT, questions remain for other big industries

For the first time, major industries in the Northern Territory will be charged for the water they use.

ABC News · Oct 14, 2022

Northern Territory moves to raise age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12

Government says authorities will refer children under 12 and their families to parenting and behavioural change programs to break the cycle of offending

The Guardian - AU · Oct 13, 2022

NT government to introduce laws raising the age of criminal responsibility and reforming adult mandatory sentencing

The Northern Territory government says reforms raising the age of criminal responsibility and curtailing mandatory sentencing are an indication "the revolving prison door" stops here.

ABC News · Oct 12, 2022

Former NT chief minister Michael Gunner to join Andrew Forrest-owned renewable energy company Fortescue Future Industries

Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest's decision to employ Michael Gunner in a key new role within his renewable energy company has been welcomed by environmentalists, who say Mr Gunner has "seen the light on climate" after previously lifting a moratorium on fracking.

ABC News · Oct 9, 2022

NT Supreme Court finds Commonwealth immune from liability over sacred site damage in Kakadu National Park

In a long-running and emotional case, the Northern Territory's highest court has found Parks Australia cannot be prosecuted for damage to a sacred men's site in Kakadu National Park, because of the wording of NT legislation.

ABC News · Sep 30, 2022