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A HACKER was out for revenge when he allegedly caused millions of dollars worth of damage to Northern Territory government computers.
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Alyssa Betts writes on News.com.au : An alleged hacker's attack on the Territory Government's computer network cost millions of dollars, a court heard yesterday. Authorities said they still had no motive for the alleged sabotage, which brought down Northern Territory Supreme Court, Parliament House, Darwin prison and Royal Darwin Hospital servers, rendering them "unusable". David Anthony McIntosh,...
WTFBLOG (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
A teenage girl in Australia awoke when a snake slithered into her bed, wrapped itself around her neck and bit her on the arm. Ashlee Findlay, 16, who is afraid of snakes, spiders and centipedes, spent two hours at a hospital after the attack, the Northern Territory News reported Tuesday. The receptionist said she would be [...]
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
A croc load of fear - New Zealand's source for travel news on Stuff.co.nz : "Snowy is a mean-looking albino crocodile that was taken from the McArthur River near Borroloola in the Northern Territory in 1986 after a man was attacked and killed nearby. About 80,000 of the 140,000 saltwater crocodiles in Australia are in the Northern Territory. So it's no surprise Darwin's newest attraction is a crocodile...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
DARWIN - Northern Territory rangers fear a crocodile that has its head stuck in a large tyre is slowly starving to death. The 3.5m crocodile lives in the Mary River 150km from Darwin and is still strong enough to submerge, despite...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
A LARGE crocodile that has got its head stuck in a tyre and is slowly starving to death.
RWDB – J.F. Beck (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
The great toad muster is in progress with some 25 volunteers rounding up lots of the nasty little critters: Almost 50,000 cane toads have been destroyed within two weeks on a Northern Territory cattle station near the WA border, says a group fighting the pests. Those thinking of traveling north to join in the fun need to be aware that using toads for cricket or golf is forbidden : caught toads are...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
ALMOST 50,000 cane toads have been destroyed within two weeks on a Northern Territory cattle station near the WA border, says a group fighting the pests.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
ALMOST 50,000 cane toads have been destroyed within two weeks on a Northern Territory cattle station near the WA border, says a group fighting the pests.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
THE green light for a joint venture to explore for uranium near Alice Springs is a test for the Federal Government, the Australian Greens say.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
CANE toads might be the menace of northern Australia, but visiting Americans have turned them into a culinary delight.
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
KIDS, eh. They really do do the funniest things. To the Alice Springs Reptile Centre in the Northern Territory, where the lovable rascal, age 7, has broken in. He is feeding animals to a crocodile called Terry, while smashing the heads of other to bits with a rock. This is, of course, what happens when Dannii Minogue is [...]
The Australian (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
THE announcement last week that the report of the review into the Northern Territory intervention will be delayed for a month is welcome news. In the meantime there will be the opportunity for a full debate on the intervention's successes and failures. The proposed recommendations so far leaked to The Australian betray the same old 1980s rights agenda - with scant regard to countervailing responsibilities...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Some readers may recall my post September 30 about a whale being euthanized with explosives in Western Australia. I said in that post that Western Australia was Australia’s wild west. The Northern Territory on the other hand is rougher again. A 7 year old boy has been caught breaking into a wildlife park in Alice Springs [...]
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy broke into a Northern Territory reptile farm and sadistically fed a stream of its main exhibits to the resident 3m crocodile.
