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Flood affected NSW farmers are reporting a huge emotional and financial strain following recent flooding across large parts of the state.

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Farmers spend $100m on machinery as Australia's biggest agricultural field day AgQuip returns

Organisers of farm-machinery field day AgQuip say this year's event has been a "stellar success" and expect the tills will add up to more than $100 million.

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Foot-and-mouth conferences held for pastoralists in Northern Territory, to prevent an outbreak

Nicole Hayes was among hundreds of pastoralists who met in Darwin today discussing more ways to prevent any possible foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Australia.

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Iris Capital awaits decision over push to expand its pokies empire in Alice Springs

In what has been slated as a 'David and Goliath' battle, the Alice Springs community is taking on a gambling giant that wants to add dozens more poker machines to the town.

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Diabetes rates in Central Australia among highest in the world, new research shows

New research finds rates of diabetes in Central Australia are amongst the highest ever seen worldwide – and they are getting worse, with more people diagnosed every year, at far younger ages than ever seen before.

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Farmers say Botany never as efficient as Newcastle port

The peak farming body says Port Botany has 'significant limitations that Port Kembla and Newcastle don't have'.

Newcastle Herald

Blacken Open Air Festival brings metal to Central Australia with first-ever international act

Metal heads from around the country are travelling to one of the most unique locations for a metal concert around the world this weekend for the Blacken Open Air festival.

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Deaths of woman, baby and man on property north of Alice Springs investigated as murder-suicide

One week after three people — including a baby — were found dead at a property north of Alice Springs, more details have been released by the police minister.

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Vigil held in Alice Springs for mother and baby who died in alleged domestic violence incident

An emotional vigil has been held for a 30-year-old Indigenous woman and her infant child, who died in an alleged domestic violence incident a week ago

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Alice Springs stores rushed with customers as intervention-era alcohol ban expires in NT

Some liquor stores are being forced to intermittently shut their doors to manage high demand in Alice Springs after long-term alcohol bans ended for hundreds of remote Northern Territory communities.

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Spike in break-ins, alcohol-fueled violence in Alice Springs as alcohol bans end

As intervention-era alcohol bans end across much of the Northern Territory, police say there's been a spike in alcohol-fuelled violence in Alice Springs.

ABC News

Injury numbers down during record-breaking year for cars and bikes at NT's Finke Desert Race

Toby Price claimed his second win on four wheels, and David Walsh took home his third consecutive title in the bike race during a weekend of revs, dust and spills in the red centre.

ABC News

Finke Desert Race bikes and cars take to the track under sweeping new safety standards

Hundreds of competitors will attempt to take on the desert today in what's billed as the most challenging off-road motorsport event in the country.

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NT Police investigating fatal tour bus crash in Central Australia, passengers remain in hospital

A 69-year-old man died after the tourist bus rolled on Monday afternoon in Central Australia, with the cause of the crash still under investigation.

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NSW out of drought after flooding rains

NSW has largely emerged from two years of drought but farmers' woes are far from over as they struggle to recover from multiple disasters in recent years.

ABC News

New South Wales is now officially drought free, but not all farmers are celebrating

Some areas of the state went from being bone dry to under water during the past few years, but for those who missed out on the bulk of the rain the pronouncement that the drought is over is not altogether convincing.

ABC News

Indigenous Yuelamu community facing water crisis as aquifer dries up

The remote Indigenous community of Yuelamu in the Northern Territory is facing a water crisis as the town's main aquifer dries up.

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Return of the rodents: Australia’s farmers on high alert for another mouse plague

Last year’s record invasion devastated rural areas and this year’s bumper harvest is seeing mouse numbers increasing again

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Farmers call for ACCC inquiry into overseas grain price inequity

Australia's peak farm lobby group for grain growers is calling for an inquiry into grain prices to explain why farmers are getting up to $400 per tonne less for their product than producers overseas.

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Mouse plague warning as numbers increase across eastern states and WA

With mouse numbers beginning to rise again after last year's plague, experts warn farmers and rural communities need to act now to avoid another spring rodent breeding boom.

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Truck driver, 48, dies in accident on Stuart Highway south of Alice Springs

Police are investigating a fatal truck accident this morning at Stuarts Well, 90 kilometres south of Alice Springs.

ABC News

Alice Springs prison officers strike, claim facility chronically understaffed

Staff at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre open up about chronic burnout, bed shortages and family breakdowns during a 12-hour work stoppage in protest of the NT government's proposed four-year wage freeze.

ABC News

Tennant Creek high school students push each other to graduate, learn agricultural skills along the way

Tennant Creek high school student Jojo Johnson was looking to drop out in year 10 but his mates, and horse work, pushed him to graduate. He'll be the second in his family to do so.

ABC News

NT Indigenous workers underpaid between 1933 and 1971 join class action against government

John is one of thousands of workers in the NT who were underpaid — or not paid at all — for their work between 1933 and 1971. He's hoping to see justice in his lifetime and has joined a class action against the government to make it happen.

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