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Media outlets across Australia have carried headlines about a “youth crime crisis” in recent months. While drawn from actual events, often involving serious criminality and antisocial behaviour, these often sensational reports have the same narrative subtext. The story is one of “bad kids” doing bad things in otherwise “good communities”.

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Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End

Calls for special deal to be struck for NT, which has biggest funding gap between public and private schools

In evidence to the national security law watchdog, the legal team said the NSI Act had fundamental issues and needed reforming

Alcohol restrictions are being extended in Alice Springs with no end date set as figures show a reduction in hospitalisations and domestic violence incidents.

DALLAS — Anyone who has even loosely followed Maxi Kleber’s six-year Mavericks career knows he’s a model teammate, as well a close friend of Dwight Powell, Josh Green and ex-Maverick Jalen Brunson.

Last week, a 67-year-old man was bitten on the arm by a saltwater crocodile at a waterhole in the Northern Territory’s Top End. Predictably, the incident has prompted debate over whether a crocodile cull is needed.

In the Northern Territory, the failure to implement the Gonski funding reforms has left students with the fewest resources further disadvantaged

'We saw the crocodile surface just below the waterfall. It was about two metres long.'

Man taken to hospital after reptile, believed to be 2 metres long, attacked him in the Litchfield national park