Being required to apply for two year permits for practically every exhibit in his collection of taxidermic animals and other animal parts, including feral animals, provides no meaningful wildlife conservation, writes Stephen Barnes.

Instead of a curfew the Territory needs policies and programs to look after vulnerable people in our community, including victims of crime, and to keep kids out of gaol, keep families connected, and give people hope for the future, writes David Eldridge.

Northern Territory crocodile numbers have never been, and will never be, out of control, and instead of culling there needs to be more education, more warning signs, and tougher fines for people wilfully engaging in unsafe behaviour, writes PhD student Brandon Sideleau.

The fact that Justice Charlesworth found the Environmental Defenders Office actions in the Tiwi Islands gas pipelines case amounted to “confection”, comes as no surprise, writes Gerry Wood.

Australia’s imprisonment rate of Indigenous people is a domestic embarrassment which causes international condemnation and shame, and is shockingly expensive and ineffective, writes former Commonwealth and NT public servant Bob Beadman, as part of a broader analysis of legal and governance systems.

Liz Holmes took her own life when she felt she had nothing to look forward to but pain and indignity because of her deteriorating health. Her daughter Sharon Cramp-Oliver writes that her mother would have used euthanasia if it had been available, a way of dying that will be available to everyone in Australia by November next year, except those living in the Northern Territory.

The 7th Duke of Manchester was at a revenge reprisal of Woolwonga people, ordered and armed by the South Australian government, but in an example of fanciful euphemistic language used to disguise the truth of frontier massacres, he wrote there was no rage of revenge shown, writes Dr Robyn Smith.

The NT’s legal “system” is a system no more. A 20-year descent into mediocrity has brought about its collapse which, although still able to operate by jailing Indigenous men, women and children at record accelerating levels, is essentially a broken shambles, writes John Lawrence.

From Darwin to Melbourne, Alessia Allfree says her journey of self discovery highlights the importance of LGBTQI+ representation. Now, as part of Australia’s most-followed LGBT couple, she advocates for visibility, inclusivity, and support for young people in regional areas.

The job of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption is to find, consider, and weigh evidence, and come to a conclusion based on that evidence, however Michael Riches has clearly failed to live up to the requirements of the ICAC legislation and needs to be investigated by the Inspector for this breach, writes Dr Don Fuller.