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Facing searing heat and labour shortages, NT mango growers trial new ways to harvest fruit

Finding workers willing to pick mangoes under the hot NT sun is difficult. Some farmers are turning to harvesting at night and preparing for a future of using robots.

ABC News

Darwin Festival rejects activist funding

Fossil Free Arts NT says the Darwin Festival rejected an ethical funding offer but the event's board said it had concerns for its independence.

AAP

NT cop loses inquest fight to stay silent

NT policeman Zach Rolfe can be forced to answer questions at an inquest about the night he shot Indigenous teen Kumanjayi Walker dead, the Supreme Court says.

AAP

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Australia to charge tourists entry for most photogenic spots

Northern Territory is introducing a Parks Pass from April 2023 which starts at £5.50 per adult

The Independent UK

NT families face bleak Christmas: report

The NT's social and community services sector warns that families are struggling with the rising cost of living and housing in the lead up to Christmas.

AAP

Anti-vaccine mandate protester accused of trashing former NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner's office faces court

Paul Anthony Holland has been advised to seek legal council after representing himself in court, accused of breaking into former chief minister Michael Gunner's office days after his resignation.

ABC News

Equatorial Launch Australia counter-sues former CEO Carley Scott for alleged after unfair dismissal claim

Months after securing NASA's first rocket launches on Australian soil in years, space industry startup Equatorial Launch Australia is embroiled in multi-million-dollar lawsuits.

ABC News

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Call for federal action over NT water plan

Hydrologists and environmentalists want the federal government to intervene over a massive NT government groundwater extraction plan linked to gas fracking.

AAP

'Burnt-out' NT teachers take pay offer

Northern Territory's teachers have accepted a three per cent pay offer, ending months of negotiations and industrial action.

AAP

Tennant Creek residents living in tin shed homes call for better Indigenous housing during Northern Territory heatwave

The heatwave that scorched Northern Australia over the weekend was almost unbearable for people living in Tennant Creek's tin shed Indigenous housing, where residents are calling on the NT and federal governments to speed up building new public houses.

ABC News

Defence flags interest in using Darwin's Howard Springs quarantine facility to house local, international military personnel

More than 60,000 people quarantined at Howard Springs during the height of the pandemic. But the Defence Department is now considering using the facility to house thousands of military personnel during training exercises.

ABC News

Crucial year for burgeoning space economy

Thailand's satellite-related economy is expected to reach an important milestone next year with two major developments -- the auction of rights to use satellite orbital slots, scheduled for Jan 8, and a push by the telecom regulator to amend the rules governing landing rights licences for foreign satellite operators, paving…

Bangkok Post

NT to make tourists buy a Parks Pass to visit beauty spots and water holes

Tourists already fork out money for flights, accommodation, camping and walks. From next year they'll also have to pay to visit some of the NT's most famous national parks and swimming spots.

ABC News

We take you behind the scenes as your Christmas mail is sorted

Make sure you know when your Christmas goodies need to be in the post to arrive on time.

The Canberra Times

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Darwin headed for a 'rental crisis' as strong demand and limited supply push prices to near record levels

With some of the highest rents in Australia, a vacancy rate under one per cent and little to no new housing on the horizon, some renters in Darwin are being pushed to the brink — and property experts say there's little relief in sight.

ABC News

Fuel analyst says motorists being 'held to ransom' as diesel price drop not seen at bowser

The situation has prompted some to claim that motorists are being "held to ransom", but fuel companies say critics don't see the bigger picture.

ABC News

Domestic violence increasing in NT, Indigenous Australians struggling to find employment, inquiry hears

The chief executive of an Indigenous health service has told a federal inquiry she supports the return of liquor bans in the NT and that Aboriginal families "have the right to conduct their lives free of alcohol-fuelled violence."

AAP

NT police attacked in remote community

One police officer has been injured and others were forced to flee after a mob of people attacked them with rocks in the remote community of Wadeye overnight.

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Man charged over alleged NT sex attack

NT police have charged a man who allegedly fled naked from a Palmerston home after he attempted to sexually assault a child.

ABC News

Northern Land Council to introduce new fishing permit system 14 years after Blue Mud Bay ruling

The Northern Land Council will allow recreational fishers to continue to access remote Aboriginal waters under a new permit system set to take effect from next month, however some popular fishing areas will remain off limits for now.

ABC News

Darwin rough sleepers forced to stay outside amid Northern Territory heatwave

A heat emergency has been declared in the Northern Territory, with residents advised to stay stay inside and keep cool, but people sleeping rough often don't have that luxury.

AAP

COVID case rise slows, peak on horizon

Weekly COVID-19 infections have risen six per cent in the past week as new data shows Australia experienced higher-than-average deaths from January to August.

ABC News

NT Police search for man after attempted daylight sexual assault of child at home in Driver

Police are seeking information from the public after a man allegedly attempted to sexually assault a primary school-aged child inside a home in Palmerston yesterday afternoon.

ABC News

NT education advocates welcome end of effective enrolment funding school model, call for faster transition to new model

A review has found the NT's effective enrolment policy — which funded schools based on attendance rather than enrolment — was not meeting students' need, but the switch to a new system could take years.

ABC News

NT chief minister says states, Commonwealth must help offset emissions to obtain Beetaloo Basin gas

Natasha Fyles says the federal government and states with gas shortages must work with the Northern Territory if new supplies from the Beetaloo Basin are to be unlocked and all carbon emissions offset as promised.

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