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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Briana Charles |Lexie Jeuniewic
A range of support measures have been put in place to help those affected by Cyclone Alfred, including 13 weeks income support for eligible workers. But there's growing demand for a standardised disaster leave as natural emergencies become more frequent. • Guest: Andrew Stewart, Professor of Work and Regulation at Queensland University of Technology
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Liz Trevaskis |Briana Charles
The NT's Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has spent over a year investigating the deaths of four indigenous women at the hands of their partners ... and her findings laid bare a system crumbling under the pressure of a horrific rate of violence. Narelda Jacobs is a First Nations journalist and television presenter with Network 10 who has been covering the inquest and has posed the question: How do we make the nation care?
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Liz Trevaskis |Briana Charles
Launched in 2008, the National Rental Affordable Scheme (NRAS) was a Labor initiative that was later scrapped by the Coalition. Now it is coming to an end. As homelessness worsens and public housing falls short of demand, what happens next? What will fill the void? We met Barry, a Darwin local, recently evicted from his NRAS property with nowhere to go. With a tumour, a crooked spine, and a child in tow - this is Barry's story.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Liz Trevaskis |Briana Charles
The ACCC has taken Optus to court for exploiting vulnerable Territorians. Allegedly, Optus was selling them goods and services they didn't want or need.This is the second time a telco has been caught out in the Territory, but not the first time local hero Toni Cork has had something to do with bringing them to justice.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Liz Trevaskis |Briana Charles
Tracey Hyde is the mother of Aaron Hyde. Aaron has been in prison in the NT since he was in high school. From his time in Don Dale he was a lead plaintiff in a $35 million class action settlement against the Northern Territory Government for the mistreatment of youth detainees between 2006 and 2017Now, the CLP has announced plans to permanently relocate young offenders from the overcrowded Alice Springs Youth Detention Centre to a new facility in Darwin.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Liz Trevaskis |Briana Charles
Hot days, long nights, close quarters. With nothing but a mat and a thin sheet of polyester between you and mother nature how do you think you'd cope? Imagine. It's 37 degrees. 66% humidity, you've run out of water and there isn't a public shower in sight? As the poor get poorer and the weather gets warmer, Leah Potter, the founder of a local soup kitchen speak to what this means for those sleeping rough in the top end. Darwin, Cost of Living, Homelessness, Health, Heatwaves, Housing Policy, Police
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May 17, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Briana Charles
As Justice David Mossop handed down his ruling on Tuesday, the word “shame” rang through the courtroom. Moments earlier he had announced that David McBride, a former military lawyer who served in Afghanistan in 2011 and 2013, faced five years and eight months in prison for leaking documents revealing Australia’s involvement in war crimes. The non-parole period is two years and three months.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Briana Charles
On Friday, November 17, at 4pm, David McBride stood before the ACT Supreme Court and pleaded guilty to three of five charges. Six years of uncertainty for the former military lawyer had preceded this two-syllable word. His lawyer, Mark Davis, said he had been left with “no choice”.
McBride walked out of court with his assistance dog, Jake.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
crikey.com.au | Briana Charles
On Friday, whistleblower David McBride pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to the media. The guilty plea for three charges came after Judge David Mossop’s rejection of McBride’s defence — that members of the military have a duty to act in the “public interest”. Without this defence, his lawyer advised that a not guilty plea would be difficult terrain. McBride’s counsel, Stephen Odgers SC, immediately sought to appeal to the ACT Supreme Court to have the trial stayed.
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Feb 21, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Briana Charles
A new website that says it represents Northern Territorians who support fracking in the Beetaloo Basin appears shrouded in mystery with no details about who is behind it. Environmentalists have concerns that the site, which calls itself the Beetaloo Economic Alliance, could be an example of astroturfing, a term that describes where a fake grassroots campaign is used to obscure marketing or PR.
