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Northern Territory
Essays & reportage
Tragedy and opportunity on the Plenty River
Michael Dillon
4 July 2024
An announcement at Huckitta Station provides a link between native title and police powers
Books & arts
This house of Grieve
Jeremy Gans
7 November 2023
A murder case looks different close-up for a journalist with worries of his own
National affairs
The turn of the electoral cycle could be a long time coming
Tim Colebatch
27 January 2023
Labor is riding high across Australia, and the Greens are doing better than most observers acknowledge. Where does that leave the Coalition?
Essays & reportage
The strange career of the great Australian silence
Dean Ashenden
15 November 2022
How a journey north from Adelaide led to
Telling Tennant’s Story
, the 2022 Political Book of the Year
Essays & reportage
Hot, wild heart
Eleanor Hogan
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
National affairs
Together, let’s stick together
Peter Brent
1 September 2020
Crises aren’t always bad for governments — federal, state or territory — facing elections
National affairs
Wrong party, wrong election?
Peter Brent
24 August 2020
The electoral arithmetic was loaded against Lia Finocchiaro’s Country Liberal Party in Saturday’s Northern Territory election
National affairs
Three years later, the Territory’s post–Don Dale reforms are faltering
Russell Marks
11 September 2019
After a burst of youth justice initiatives, Michael Gunner’s Labor government has lost momentum
National affairs
Custody battle
Russell Marks
14 June 2019
Nearly thirty years after the Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission, the Northern Territory finally has a custody notification service. But is there devil in its detail?
Books & arts
North of Capricorn
Henry Reynolds
11 June 2019
Books
| Feelings of neglect continue to shape sentiment in Australia’s northern reaches
Recovered Lives
Matriarch of Darwin’s Chinese community
Elizabeth Kwan
7 March 2019
Lim Lee See (Granny Lum Loy) (c. 1887–1980)
Books & arts
An exhibition extraordinary in its ordinariness
Annemarie McLaren
26 October 2018
Exhibition
| A carefully thought-out exhibition creates a compelling narrative out of everyday lives
Essays & reportage
Top Endings
Kerry Ryan
17 September 2015
Twenty years after he left,
Kerry Ryan
returned to Darwin. Some things had changed, some things had stayed the same
Essays & reportage
New Darwin: bonanza and cataclysm
Tess Lea
26 April 2014
In this extract from her new book,
Tess Lea
takes an aerial view of the future of the Northern Territory capital
Essays & reportage
The “right to drink” in Alice Springs
Eleanor Hogan
9 May 2013
The NT government’s abolition of the Banned Drinkers Register has divided opinion in Central Australia, writes
Eleanor Hogan
Essays & reportage
“Big problems” in Alice Springs
Kieran Finnane
25 February 2011
Concern about crime in Alice Springs came to a head at a public meeting this week.
Kieran Finnane
reports on a debate that took some unexpected turns
National affairs
The fabulous fiftieth NSW parliament, and other minority governments
Peter Browne
10 September 2010
Every Australian state and territory has experienced a minority government over the past twenty years. And it’s a surprisingly strong field
Essays & reportage
Divine wind
Richard Evans
20 December 2009
It wasn’t until Tracy struck, thirty-five years ago, that Darwin’s cyclone problem really sank in, writes
Richard Evans