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[Link] Zachary Rolfe trial: no ‘reasonable’ grounds for shooting Kumanjayi Walker second and third time, court hears
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Police officer Zachary Rolfe did not have “reasonable” grounds to shoot Kumanjayi Walker a second and third time, and the second and third shots provided no tactical advantage in the attempted arrest of the Aboriginal man, a former Northern Territory police defensive tactics trainer told Rolfe
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[Link] 'Not fit for purpose': Call to close NT's shipping container cop shops
Read: 27/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
The Northern Territory's police union has renewed calls for the closure of 14 remote police stations – some of them just repurposed shipping containers – which it says have fallen into severe disrepair.
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[Link] Park lands hub helps Aboriginal rough sleepers return to Country
Read: 9/12/2021 indaily.com.au
Puti on Kaurna Yerta in the southern park lands. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDailySince opening in October, the Puti on Kaurna Yerta hub has helped 75 Aboriginal people – approximately half of whom came from the Northern Territory – to travel from Adelaide back to Country.
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[Link] Beware the humble mango — it can leave its nasty mark
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The humble mango. It's delicious, it's nutritious, and it grows in abundance in Australia. It could also land you in hospital.
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[Link] Amnesty UK accused of ‘spreading false information’ about Northern Territory Covid outbreak
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Amnesty UK has been accused of “spreading false information” about the Northern Territory’s Covid outbreak in an extraordinary joint statement from the territory’s peak Aboriginal health organisation and Amnesty’s own Australian operation.
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[Link] Darwin shooter left without lawyers after sacking expert legal team
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Confessed killer Benjamin Hoffmann could be left to represent himself when he is sentenced over the killing of four men in 2019, after his high-profile legal team withdrew their services.
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[Link] SA Police investigate how COVID-positive woman who sparked NT lockdown entered state
Read: 8/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police is investigating if a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 and sparked the Northern Territory's lockdown had the relevant travel permits into South Australia from Victoria.
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[Link] Supply chains threatened as vaccine deadline looms for freight workers entering the NT
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
From groceries and hardware to cattle and clothes, freight workers play a crucial role in keeping the Northern Territory open for business. But the NT government's vaccine deadline for the industry is fast approaching.
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[Link] Tennant Creek Aboriginal leaders say $80m aid package prompted by toddler's rape is being misdirected
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
John Fitz Jakamarra and the other members of Tennant Creek's Apurtu traditional owner group feel the Central Australian town is descending into chaos.
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[Link] Closer ties with Indonesia army the focus of joint military training in Top End
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Battling heatwave conditions and pandemic precautions, about 300 Australian and Indonesian soldiers are conducting their largest ever annual joint combat training across defence bases in the Top End.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] 'Tell them I'm delusional': Accused gunman's instructions prior to alleged murders
Read: 6/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Mihalis Makrylos said Mr Hoffmann came to his house in Darwin's northern suburbs, woke him up him around 2:00am and asked him to go with him to Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH).
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[Link] Howard Springs quarantine facility expected to reach capacity for overseas arrivals for the first time
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has told Parliament the facility would reach capacity for repatriated Australians in the coming weeks.
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[Link] After 'very, very long fight', NT Stolen Generations survivors to be compensated
Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The head of the Northern Territory's Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation has welcomed the Commonwealth's new $378 million redress scheme for people forcibly removed from their families as children.
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[Link] Carnival ride operator charged and faces $1.2m in fines after crash
Read: 19/5/2021 www.abc.net.au
NT Worksafe have charged a Darwin carnival ride operator with four work health and safety breaches after one of the metal arms on the Octopus Ride twisted and crashed to the ground at the Freds Pass Show in 2019. The incident injured the two passengers in the cabin at the end of the faulty arm.
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