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.

The former independent MLA for Nelson writes that he hopes people formally express their concerns about the Holtze draft plan by October 6, saying it seems the size of blocks in the area will be decided by developers not the government.

OPINION: Would a ‘fresh cream pie’ to the face constitute aggravated assault against a general member of the public and would the police prioritise already scarce resources to prosecute it if the victim had been anyone else, writes Kate Fulton, surmising the answer raises important questions about the Northern Territory’s philosophies concerning law and governance.

All Territorians should vote ‘Yes’ in the upcoming referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, writes local businessman Owen Pike, because this is what is best for the Territory and those who really benefit from the glorious gravy train that will flow faster and thicker in the event of a successful ‘Yes’ vote.

OPINION: The Charles Darwin University city campus building is harsh, incongruous, non-welcoming and more suited to an industrial, manufacturing environment, and thus a missed opportunity to celebrate the special features and characteristics of the city, writes a former CDU head of the School of Law and Business, and Professor of Governance.

The authorisation of taxpayers’ money to advance and run Labor’s 2020 election campaign – breathtaking in its audacity, Trumpian in its ethics and arrogant to the point they thought they’d never be caught – has seemingly been embraced by caucus ahead of next year’s election at the expense of our democracy, writes former Labor political adviser Charlie Phillips.