Charles Darwin University’s attempts to establish a medical school is an unnecessary duplication, and serves to further distract management from their core business of attempting to finally establish a northern Australian university committed to Territorians and their issues and concerns, writes Dr Don Fuller.

The Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration found ministers should resign or be dismissed if they contravene standards of morality, however the Chief Minister’s failure to sack Brent Potter shows the government does not prize ethical responsibility and sets the Territory on a course to fail under such leadership, writes Dr Don Fuller.

Clown Town: Let’s wallow for another week in the misdeeds, malfeasance and asinine behaviour of our elected leaders and explore that sweet corruption-incompetence nexus that makes us all feel at home in the Great Territory Lifestyle.

An Aboriginal and recreational fishing action plan for all areas needs to be created to guide fishing in the Territory for the next 50 to 100 years, writes former Amateur Fishing Association executive officer NT Trevor Simmonds.

OPINION: After the alleged rape of another child in the Tennant Creek, there needs to be a review of the Barkly Regional Deal, which was announced after the rape of a two-year-old girl in 2018, but which has failed dismally, writes Elliot McAdam.

Psychedelic-assisted therapy regulations are counterproductive and limited by obfuscation and too much bureaucracy, with change needed for the sake of patients, writes Australian Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Practitioners chair Dr Anthony Bloch.

OPINION: Workers will have to be made permanent after two years on fixed term contracts under changes to federal law, which will hopefully benefit the NT public service, writes industrial relations consultant Lucio Matarazzo.

Letter to the editor: Arrogance, immaturity, born-to-rule ethos and vested interests bordering on corruption emanate from too many NT ALP and CLP Legislative Assembly members, it’s time to vote Greens.

Opinion: First Nations people still feel the effects of colonialism but their lives could be very different with appropriate awareness, knowledge, skills, and the roll-out of appropriate language based information and education for both the original Australians and mainstream English speaking people, writes Richard Trudgen.

EDITORIAL: Local Government Minister Chanston Paech has taken action….about 18 months after he would have first been made aware of serious problems in the Barkly Regional Council that directly affected how Indigineous Territorians received crucial services.

OPINION: It is clear that climate change is a major public health issue in both Australia and the US, yet it is ignored by governments in their continued quest for export income from fossil fuels, writes Emeritus Professor David Shearman and Professor Melissa Haswell.