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James Elton

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  • Almost 200 people arrested in Katherine over six weeks during Operation Oxley

    Jan 17, 2025 | abc.net.au | James Elton

    Police have arrested 199 people over six weeks in the Northern Territory regional town of Katherine as part of Operation Oxley. NAAJA data shows during December, 151 Aboriginal people were taken into custody — a 47 per cent increase on the same time the year before. NT Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby says the police operation is not targeting Indigenous people, with the laws applying to everyone.

  • Once in trouble with the law, young men help run Tennant Creek night bus to keep kids on track

    Dec 24, 2024 | abc.net.au | James Elton

    It's almost closing time at Rocky's Pizza in Tennant Creek, the best place in town to get a feed late at night. Four children are hanging out on the footpath nearby. Jeffrey Frank, 20, and Deacon Sawdy, 17, approach them and ask if they need a ride home. They accept, and bundle into the back of the night bus. "Most of them are our family. We got a connection with all these mobs," Jeffrey says.

  • Concerns new Territory Coordinator position will allow NT government to 'cut corners'

    Dec 19, 2024 | abc.net.au | Olivana Smith Lathouris |James Elton

    Community members from across Darwin have expressed concerns and "deep disappointment" during public consultation on controversial draft laws designed to fast-track major economic projects in the Northern Territory. If legislated by NT parliament next year, the bill would create an office of the Territory Coordinator which would have powers to label some private investments in the NT as economic priorities and take steps to fast-track environmental and planning approvals.

  • Allegations of bullying and inappropriate behaviour: Alpurrurulam school parents and teachers speak out

    Dec 16, 2024 | abc.net.au | Victoria Pengilley |James Elton

    Stringing up kangaroo intestines on a fence line so they'd rot in the baking sun. Speaking about sex, drug use and the gory details of a suicide in front of young students. Allegations of threatening language. Former teachers claim they witnessed troubling behaviour at the Alpurrurulam community school on the Northern Territory-Queensland border.

  • ASIC orders NT clothing store to stop letting customers pay through Centrelink deductions

    Dec 4, 2024 | abc.net.au | James Elton

    Australia's financial regulator has ordered a Northern Territory clothing retailer, Indy C, to stop using bill-paying service Centrepay over concerns it was exposing vulnerable Aboriginal customers to financial risk. It is the second clothing NT clothing shop to have the service removed, after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission made the same call on Urban Rampage earlier this year.

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