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Mum sedated four times by medics before overdose death

A "pleasantly psychotic" woman seeking treatment for mental illness was sedated four times in a day by health staff before she died, an inquest has been told.

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Drop in territory offences put down to crime crackdown

A territory's law-and-order crackdown is working, its chief minister says, with police data showing a significant drop in crime rates.

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'Kind of boring': senator sick of party navel gazing

Suggestions that the coalition might benefit from a split along ideological lines are nonsense, a senator says, as a "boring" debate on its future continues.

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How voluntary assisted dying in the NT would be different to down south

Voluntary assisted dying is being debated in the Northern Territory (NT) parliament this week.

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Principal guilty of assaulting Indigenous students

A judge has found an angry headmaster guilty of four aggravated assaults after he put Indigenous students into choke holds and painfully twisted their ears.

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Fertility rate hits record low as parents' ages climb

Worries about the cost of raising children and job security are being blamed for the increasing age of new parents and their falling number of children.

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'Blame game': voluntary assisted dying laws row erupts

Competing bills to allow voluntary assisted dying in Australia's only jurisdiction banning it have prompted political sniping and a call for bipartisanship.

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Ownership cutback triggers cross-border firearms flow

Australia's toughest firearm ownership laws have triggered a mass relocation of weapons across state borders as owners scramble to comply with the new rules.

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Crime-troubled territory names new police chief

Months after a top cop was sacked over a jobs-for-mates scandal, a crime-hit territory has named a new police commissioner with the force under the spotlight.

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Pennywise or Bozo: Labor pounces on Liberal turmoil

Sussan Ley has sought to put internal divisions in the coalition to rest but not before comments were used against them in parliament.

AAP

Death of three-year-old boy in social housing fire could have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, inquest hears

Inquest is hearing evidence about the 2023 death of Mitchell Thomas at Larapinta in Alice Springs

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Top cop sacking prompts overhaul of police appointments

Appointments of senior police officials in a crime-troubled jurisdiction will be overhauled after a top cop was sacked over a jobs-for-mates scandal.

AAP

Get kids to school or have income managed, parents told

Parents in communities where truancy is rife are warned they will be put on income management if they don't ensure their kids go to school.

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‘An act of bastardry’: NT overruled Aboriginal authority to allow hotel on sacred site, advocates say

Film-maker Rachel Perkins says Larrakia people ‘would have never agreed’ to the planned 11-storey building

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SA Ambulance received no alerts from service meant to notify authorities during Optus triple zero outage last month

Exclusive: Despite being signed up to a new alert system, the South Australian emergency service was not notified during September’s triple zero outage

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'How nervous am I': top cop's emotional farewell

After five years as AFP Commissioner, Reece Kershaw has reflected on his career and said goodbye to staff at a ceremony at the force's headquarters in Canberra.

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Voluntary assisted dying to be legal across Australia

Three decades after a territory's voluntary assisted dying laws were overturned, they are set to be reinstated and come into line with other jurisdictions.

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Retailer defends sale of pepper spray for self-defence

Pepper spray sold to the public for self-defence is a better option than oven cleaner, wasp spray and screwdrivers, a licensed seller of the eye irritant says.

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'Decades of neglect': 'dire' state housing picture

Two years on from the inception of a target to build 800,000 homes in a decade, data illustrates the "dire" housing picture continuing to confront one state.

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Pepper spray trial slammed after use in nightclub brawl

A trial of the public sale of pepper spray is under fire after the eye irritant was used in two incidents at the same nightclub.

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Bacchae review – Indhu Rubasingham launches National Theatre tenure with new-gen rap tragedy

This eccentric take on Euripedes by Nima Taleghani is a striking yet often frustrating opening statement

AAP

Top law officer under pressure over hit-run driver link

An attorney-general has failed to declare a conflict of interest before commenting on the case of her sister's stepson, who fatally struck a man with his car.

AAP

Calm urged as prosecutors mull death in custody brief

The family of an Aboriginal man who died in custody has expressed frustration over a months-long investigation into the incident amid calls for calm.

The Guardian - AU

NT attorney general criticised after confirming family link to hit-and-run driver

Marie-Clare Boothby faces questions after revealing she is related to man spared prison over a crash that killed Aboriginal pedestrian

AAP

Fourth death during Optus triple zero outage confirmed

A West Australian has become the fourth confirmed death linked to an Optus outage that prevented customers from calling triple zero.

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