Only 32 per cent of Indigenous students attend school more than four days per week, students have registered only minimum improvements in math and in some cohorts, reading skills have worsened, the department’s annual report shows.
Alice Springs motorcyclist dies in hospital as charges for five youths upgraded
An Alice Springs motorcyclist who was struck by an allegedly stolen car last week has died in hospital NT Police have confirmed, as the tragedy reaches the floor of Parliament House with desperate pleas for the government to take firm action on the out-of-control crime problem in the town.
More than 400 public servants hired since government hiring freeze implemented: report
The NT public service continues to grow at a higher rate than the population despite the Gunner Government’s repeated pledges over the last two years to implement a hiring freeze, the annual State of the Service report shows.
NT fisho rescued from island after boat drifts away while on toilet break
A stranded fisho has been rescued on an Island in Nhulunbuy after his boat drifted five nautical miles while he was taking a toilet break, NT Police said.
No courts, no detention under bold idea to tackle the NT’s escalating youth crime
Youth courts as Territorians know them would be abolished, detention centres replaced with boarding schools and Indigenous Elders put back in charge of administering justice, under a bold new plan to address the NT’s consistently high crime rate.
Kakadu’s $276m masterplan released with only two weeks for public feedback
The Federal Government has released its $276 million decade-long draft masterplan to transform Kakadu National Park, with only two weeks for public comment on the massive project that proposes eco-lodges, safari camps, a family holiday park and new mountain bike trails at the iconic park.
Three more Victorians fined for breaching quarantine work exemptions in remote NT
Three more interstate travellers who broke their quarantine work exemptions – this time in Tennant Creek – will be fined, despite having already left the NT, police say.
Mayor of Darwin ‘within his technical rights’ to sidestep democracy, but questions linger over secret information
In the heated moments after the Mayor of Darwin deferred a decision on a proposal for one of the most sought after spots on The Esplanade he was widely criticised as treading dangerously close to authoritarianism, but a CDU scholar says he was “probably within his rights”.
‘Cunning and predatory’: 22-year-old sentenced to prison for attempted rape of German backpacker
A man who lured a 19-year-old German backpacker into a dark carpark on Smith Street and attempted to rape her has been sentenced to prison for three years and 10 months in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
NT Women forced to live among ‘unprecedented levels’ of violence, inquiry hears
Women and girls in the Northern Territory are far more likely to be sexually assaulted and subjected to violence than anywhere else in Australia, a federal inquiry investigating family, domestic and sexual violence has heard.
Ranger uranium mine: fears over toxic tailings buried in the pits during rehabilitation
Leading scientists fear Kakadu National Park’s pristine aquifers and drinking water relied on by nearby Indigenous communities are in jeopardy from an inevitable “toxic cocktail” seepage as the mammoth task of rehabilitation at Ranger uranium mine nears and the surroundings – everything from offices to trucks and tailings – are thrown in the pit as filler.
Territory Alliance dumps Lambley from party – Lambley returns serve, says she will resign from ‘debacle’
Territory Alliance has helped make up Member for Araluen Robyn Lambley’s mind on whether to leave the party by booting her out, but she has hit back announcing she will resign as their only elected representative.