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Independent MPs cancel airline VIP memberships – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Nov 3, 2024

'Armageddon': the cultural cost of disturbing Gunlom

A precedent in sacred site law could have other jurisdictions looking to the NT after the Jawoyn people won the long-running Gunlom Falls court battle.

AAP · Nov 2, 2024

Optus sold vulnerable Australian customers phone plans they couldn’t afford, ACCC alleges

Regulator alleges in court case one person living with a disability was sold a phone, a contract, an internet plan and accessories despite not wanting most of it

The Guardian - AU · Oct 31, 2024

Plan for 1000 new prison beds in the Northern Territory

After promising it would not incarcerate more people, the NT government has unveiled a plan to increase the number of jail beds over the next four years.

AAP · Oct 21, 2024

Labor retains office at ACT election; US presidential election remains on a knife’s edge

The Labor Party has won a seventh consecutive ACT election.

The Conversation · Oct 19, 2024

Northern Territory defies ‘do-gooders down south’ on age of criminal responsibility

Country Liberal party says it doesn’t want children in detention but Labor says it’s ‘absolute crap’ that criminalising a child will help them

The Guardian - AU · Oct 18, 2024

Victoria at risk of tornadoes as thunderstorms and giant hail lash Australia’s south-east

Bureau of Meteorology warns parts of Victoria to brace for ‘dangerous’ storm and intense rainfall that could lead to ‘life-threatening flash flooding’

The Guardian - AU · Oct 18, 2024

Morning Mail: Israel kills Hamas leader, how negative gearing fix could help renters, women crash out of T20

Israel’s foreign minister says man killed by troops in Gaza is country’s most wanted; negative gearing change could help renters, Greens say

The Guardian - AU · Oct 17, 2024

Mike Pezzullo says being stripped of Order of Australia ‘does not amount to a hill of beans’ – as it happened

Pezzullo said the decisionmakers ‘presumably” believed the termination was ‘just and fair’

The Guardian - AU · Oct 17, 2024

Cheap grog, new drunkenness offence and mandatory rehab: why 9 experts think proposed NT alcohol reforms would be a disaster

The new Northern Territory government is planning a swathe of changes to alcohol policy.

The Conversation · Oct 17, 2024