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The winners and losers of the 2025-26 NT budget, from prisons to roads and health

2 days ago | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick |Jack Hislop |Samantha Dick

With net debt to surpass $12 billion this financial year, the Northern Territory government's 2025-26 budget is headlined by record funding for corrections but little for new infrastructure projects. Here are the winners and losers of the Country Liberal Party government's first budget. The Northern Territory is home to some of the sickest patients in the country, with Aboriginal Territorians battling higher rates of chronic diseases and mental health issues than non-Indigenous Australians.
Darwin community pays tribute to Linford Feick after supermarket stabbing

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Jason Walls |Matt Garrick

Nightcliff residents and friends of beloved Northern Territory supermarket owner Linford Feick have gathered to lay floral tributes and express their deep shock and sadness after his death. The 71-year-old was fatally stabbed at the Territory Friendly Grocer in Darwin's north on Wednesday afternoon, after confronting a man allegedly shoplifting. Police arrested an 18-year-old man that night and charged him with murder on Thursday evening.
Equatorial Launch Australia representatives allegedly threatened, assaulted on Cape York

Feb 7, 2025 | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick |Conor Byrne

A crew from an Australian space company has allegedly been threatened with murder and ordered to "dig a hole" in a confrontation in the Far North Queensland bush. The Queensland Police Service has made three arrests over the incident which allegedly took place on January 23, on a rural property outside the town of Weipa, on Cape York.
Virgin Australia suspends direct flights between Darwin and Adelaide

Jan 27, 2025 | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick |Mitchell Abram

Virgin Australia has confirmed it is cutting direct flights between Darwin and Adelaide during the Top End’s popular tourism season this year. A spokesperson for the carrier confirmed on Tuesday it was dumping the route, which was set to return from June 22. The service was scheduled to operate three return flights per week during the peak season. “We have made the difficult decision to indefinitely suspend our seasonal Adelaide-Darwin route based on low forecasted demand,” they said.
NT police watch houses at capacity as prisoner numbers again hit record levels

Jan 7, 2025 | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick

The Northern Territory Police Association's (NTPA) president says he fears it's a "matter of time" until a death in custody occurs as police station cells swell to capacity with dozens of overflow prisoners. The NT's prisons are so full that the Department of Corrections is currently housing more than 200 prisoners in police station watch houses in Darwin and the regional towns of Alice Springs and Katherine, as arrest numbers continue to grow during a government crackdown on crime.
The NT's prison crisis hits hard in Wadeye, as some try to make change

Jan 4, 2025 | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick

As the NT faces a prison population crisis, one remote Aboriginal community is more over-represented than any other — the West Daly community of Wadeye. NT government data shows Wadeye residents make up 5 per cent of the NT's jail population. Community organisations and former prisoners are among those trying to stop the cycle of reoffending and help Wadeye stem its high incarceration rate.
NT cop's journey from breaking into Wadeye police station to working there

Dec 23, 2024 | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick

Greg Munar broke out of a cycle of crime and dysfunction and now works as an NT Police Aboriginal Liaison Officer (ALO). Senior officers say ALOs have never been more important, after a year where racial tensions between police and Aboriginal people have made headlines. Mr Munar wants the next generation in his remote community, located in one of the most disadvantaged areas in Australia, to see his journey as an inspiration.
On Christmas Day 50 years ago, Cyclone Tracy reduced Darwin to ruins

Dec 22, 2024 | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick

Cyclone Tracy left 66 people dead, and tens of thousands more homeless and dislocated. One of Australia's worst natural disasters, part of what made Tracy so shocking was the way it struck, when the city least expected it. A note to survivors: This story contains sirens and sounds of Cyclone Tracy. December 24, 1974, Eileen Clough was snapped in Casuarina for the front page of the Northern Territory News. The moment is eerily frozen in time.
NT courts stay open over Christmas as prisoner numbers hit new record

Dec 19, 2024 | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick

The Northern Territory's criminal courts will continue to operate through the Christmas period, instead of its usual annual winddown, as the territory grapples with surging arrests and prisoner numbers. Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby said the NT government had been working with the courts to "ensure they extend their hours and operate pretty much right through Christmas". Usually, NT courts operate with only restricted services over the three-week festive period.
The NT's Arnhem Space Centre to cease operations, as ELA flags move to Queensland

Dec 10, 2024 | abc.net.au | Matt Garrick

A Northern Territory space base from which three NASA rockets were launched in 2022 has ceased operations effective immediately, its management has announced. The company running the spaceport, Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), said it was now in conversations with the Queensland government to relocate its operations to Cape York.