Victoria Ellis

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis

Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour said a man made a racist comment to her at a Katherine early voting centre. She has also alleged up to 40 members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church were campaigning for the CLP at some remote Northern Territory pre-polling booths. A spokesperson for the church says the church did not organise or pay for its members' NT appearance. The Member for Lingiari has filed a complaint after a racist incident at a Katherine pre-polling booth.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis

Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour said a man made a racist comment to her at a Katherine early voting centre. She has also alleged up to 40 members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church were campaigning for the CLP at some remote Northern Territory pre-polling booths. A spokesperson for the church says the church did not organise or pay for its members' NT appearance. The Member for Lingiari has filed a complaint after a racist incident at a Katherine pre-polling booth.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis

Alice Springs residents have celebrated the warmth, openness and diversity of their community at the annual Bangtail Muster event. About 1,500 spectators lined the Todd Mall today to cheer as 28 community groups danced, drove and marched in a colourful parade. The Alice Springs Rotary Club organised the event and said this year's theme was "the magic of friendship".

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis

Glen Oliver could not look more at home as he walked through neat rows of date palms towering like giant spiky umbrellas under the clear blue central Australian sky. "One, two, three, four," he said, as he pointed out a few of the palms he grew from tissue culture in the plantation at the Arid Zone Research Institute (AZRI) in Alice Springs. Mr Oliver, a skilled horticulturalist, has nurtured a huge number of plants and species in the nearly 20 years he has worked at the research farm.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis |Stewart Brash

The Local Government Association of the Northern Territory (LGANT) has criticised a proposal to change how council mayors are elected. Currently under the Local Government Act, councils decide prior to elections whether voters elect their mayor, or whether councillors appoint a mayor at their first meeting. But a potential amendment to the act proposes that all NT councils elect their mayor, removing the option for voters to elect their mayor directly.