OPINION: Former independent NT MLA Dawn Lawrie writes that she is constantly and consistently appalled by the current government’s attempts to muzzle a free press in a democratic society.
Opinion: The last refuge of police comradery has been shattered forever
We were always told as new recruits that at times you will need to vent, swear, cry and discuss things with your colleagues that the average person would find confronting and offensive, but NT Police officers now know that their private messages can be illegally obtained and used by the Commissioner against them, splashed across the national media, writes former officer Carey Joy.
Letter to the Editor: Richard Rolfe responds to internal police report about Constable Zach Rolfe
OPINION: Once the NT Police Commissioner decided to throw a courageous and decorated junior Constable under the bus, there has been no respite from how low Chalker has been prepared to go to destroy Constable Zachary Rolfe, writes Richard Rolfe.
Letter to the editor: Firies sacked over COVID-19 vaccinations unfair, exacerbated staff shortages
In an open letter to Chief Fire Officer Mark Spain, Laine Jolly writes sacking firefighters over refusing COVID-19 vaccinations, inflicted unacceptable damage to the physical, mental and financial wellbeing of them and their families, and exacerbated staff shortages.
Opinion: Police executive engaging in misdirection campaign over Kumanjayi Walker’s death
The only way the Yuendumu community will ever recover, and get any form of justice from the death of Kumanjayi Walker, is to free themselves of the NT Police executives’ constructed blame of Constable Rolfe, and look at the multitude of failures made by management sending the Immediate Response Team there in the first place, writes the former leader of that unit Carey Joy.
Opinion: Fannie Bay by-election results tell a sad tale of the state of our democracy
Functionally, we are a democracy, which relies on voters being active in the political process. But when the voters experience apathy to the extent where only 65 per cent of them can be bothered to vote, we find ourselves in a political condition on the brink of authoritarianism, writes Darwin lawyer Danial Kelly.
Opinion: Politicians need to aim for statehood rather than stopping federal reversal of NT laws
OPINION: Territory-based federal politicians need to understand the difference between a state and a territory, and if they want the NT to pass laws without interference from the federal government, then they need to put their energies into statehood, not a de facto state set up just for one piece of legislation they are trying to repeal, writes Gerry Wood.
What do Australians think of a First Nations’ voice in the Constitution?
Academics discuss the results of a Central Queensland University and Griffith University survey asking what people thought of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s promise to enshrine a First Nations voice in the Australian Constitution.
Letter to editor: Tracy Village Football Club address the forthcoming NTFL re-structure
The forthcoming re-structure of the NTFL is excessively detrimental to the Tracy Village Football Club and could see the death of other clubs in the lower grades of the competition, write the Tracy Village Football Club committee.
Watch member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour’s maiden speech
Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour said violence in Aboriginal communities in her electorate was an emergency issue which needed urgent attention but not an intervention like in 2007, and she was also critical about the way alcohol restrictions were removed from communities, in her maiden speech to parliament on Wednesday night. You can listen here.
Opinion: Alcohol restrictions to ease in NT, but more consultation with First Nations members is needed first
There is urgent need for a reconsideration of alcohol regulation policy approaches in the NT with the looming change to grog restrictions in the Territory, and First Nations people need to be more fully consulted, argue Elizabeth Crawford Spencer and Andrew Lockyer.
Opinion: Indigenous child abuse continues in Australia; in Don Dale
With a gathering of lawyers, judges and experts from all over Australia in Darwin, Close Don Dale Now member John Lawrence, writes the Fyles Government is breaching its duty of care, together with the requirements of various international legal conventions, in imprisoning traumatised children as young as ten, in a jail that eleven years ago a Corrections Commissioner said was “only fit for a bulldozer”.