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Outback medicos call for funds to fix dated facilities

Aboriginal health service providers are stuck with ageing clinics and staff housing and need an urgent funding boost to deliver quality care, a new report says.

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Call to end spit hood use after female prisoner's death

A woman in detention in a spit hood said "I can't breathe" before she died, a coroner has found, sparking calls for the head covering's use to end in one state.

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Darwin residents are worried about toxic chemicals and gas leaks. We need laws to protect clean air

The federal government is considering enforcement action against oil and gas company Inpex after it admitted serious reporting errors that significantly underestimated hazardous emissions released from its liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Darwin Harbour over many years.

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Prunella Scales obituary

Versatile stage and screen actor who found TV comedy fame as Sybil Fawlty and later played Elizabeth II on stage

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A remote spy base and a ‘criminal’ blockade raise questions about Australia’s complicity in Gaza war

A protest over Pine Gap’s claimed role in genocide has refocused attention on the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs

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Governor-General thanks Anangu people for sharing Uluru

The Anangu people of the Red Centre have been thanked by Australia's leaders for sharing the big red rock Uluru with the world after it was handed back to them.

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Journey Home, David Gulpilil: the ‘extraordinary’ 4,000km, 10-month effort to return the actor home

After his death in 2021, Gulpilil’s family and mob used planes, boats, vans and helicopters to transport his casket, with a documentary crew in tow. As his son reflects: ‘We have to fulfil his wishes – by any means’

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Ancient ‘salt mountains’ in southern Australia once created refuges for early life

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth could thrive.

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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.

AAP

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.

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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.

The Guardian - AU

‘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

The Guardian - AU

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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