Northern Territory

Plans to extend income managment

News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday

COMPULSORY income management will soon apply to all disadvantaged Northern Territory communities, ahead of a national rollout.

Australian drug runners using dead kangaroos

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Sydney - Drugs are being smuggled into Aboriginal communities in Australia's far north inside dead kangaroos, the Northern Territory parliament was told Tuesday. Former indigenous affairs minister Alison Anderson said cannabis was being sewn inside k...

• Drug smugglers using dead roos - IOL

Crocodile Gold Corp.: Crocodile Gold Provides Background on Tom's Gully

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Crocodile Gold Corp. (TSX: CRK) ("Crocodile Gold" or the "Company") today provides background information on its Tom's Gully project, in the Northern Territory of Australia (Figure 1). The project is currently the site of an ongoing 2,700 metre surface diamond drill program which is part of the previously announced (Crocodile Gold, November 12, 2009...

Indigenous Peoples: Australia's treatment of Aboriginals, targeted by Amnesty International after a quick visit

i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

ABC - The Secretary-General of Amnesty International has criticised the Federal Government for its failure to lift Aboriginal people out of dire poverty.Irene Kahn says she is appalled by conditions in the remote Aboriginal communities she recently visited in the Northern Territory.She says the human rights of Aboriginal people are being violated."[That] these violations occur on a continent of...

Racism and Australian Injustice

Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

"Aboriginal young people are more likely to be arrested, charged and placed before the courts than non-Aboriginal young people detained for similar offences and with similar prior records. For example, research in NSW in the early 1990s found that if two girls, both without prior records, were detained for shoplifting by police, then the non-Aboriginal girl was more than twice as likely to receive...

NT appoints Anti-Discrimination Commissioner

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

AN Aboriginal woman will serve as Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of the Northern Territory for the first time.

Indigenous income management 'damaging'

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

COMPULSORY income management is doing nothing to improve the wellbeing of Aborigines in Northern Territory communities, indigenous leader Mick Dodson says.

Man dies after a dog pack mauling

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

A MAN is believed to have been mauled to death by dogs yesterday at a remote Territory community.

• Man mauled to death by dog pack - News.com.au
• Police find dog pack mauling dead man - News.com.au
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Hunters shoot pygmy hippo in NT bush

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

A PYGMY hippopotamus has been shot dead during a pig hunting expedition in the Territory.

Third Time Unlucky?

A.E.Brain (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

I live in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Twice now, the local legislature has enacted provisions that would parallel the "Civil Unions" or "Civil Partnerships" that are found in other countries, which are deemed an acceptable alternative to marriage when it comes to same-sex relationships, and marriage itself is forbidden. Twice, the liberal (ie Right of Centre)...

Rescued sailor just wants sleep

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

A CAIRNS-based solo yachtsman has been rescued off Darwin after spending six weeks in heavy weather on a journey from Malaysia.

Crocodile Gold Corp.: Crocodile Gold Announces Details of Major Exploration Program

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Crocodile Gold Corp. (TSX: CRK) is pleased to announce details of its initial 12 month US$8.4 million exploration program that it is conducting on its extensive land position in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Another child abuse inquiry launched

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

AN independent inquiry will examine the child abuse crisis gripping the Northern Territory, following claims child protection workers failed to investigate warnings children were at risk.

Berlin Wall falls in Australia

Sciencebase Science Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Twenty years ago today, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I lay on a bed in a cramped backpackers’ hostel in the Katherine Gorge National Park (now Nitmiluk), in Australia’s Northern Territory, watching news of the fall of the Berlin Wall (now rubble). Outside insects were buzzing ferociously, the temperature was in the high 30s, [...] Berlin Wall falls in Australia is a post from: Sciencebase...

Crocodile Gold Corp.: New Uranium Intersections of Up to 11 Metres of 3.4% U3O8 on Crocodile Gold, Northern Territory, Australia Properties

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Crocodile Gold Corp. (TSX: CRK) today announces uranium drill results announced by its joint venture partner, Thundelarra Exploration Ltd ("Thundelarra") on November 4, 2009 on certain properties located 140 kilometres south of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia, and is termed the Thunderball uranium prospect. The location of Thunderball can be viewed...

Mega Uranium Ltd. - Financial Analysis Review

aarkstore | 10/26/2009

Summary Mega Uranium Ltd. (Mega Uranium) is a mineral resource mining company. The company was established in 1990 and it principally engages in the acquisition and exploration of uranium properties across the world. It has uranium properties in Australia, Canada, Argentina, Bolivia, Cameroon, Colombia and Mongolia. The company’s operations in Australia cover about 20,000 sq km of area in Queensland,...