The Latest Breaking News from NT

Crime remains a hot topic in the Northern Territory as the government unveils a new cabinet designed to help it retain power at next year's election.

In recent months, there has been increasing focus on crime committed by young people in Australia. Politicians are coming under more pressure to respond to these well-publicised criminal acts and the public perceptions that Australia is in the grips of a youth crime crisis.

The NT government has no plans to change mandatory sentencing laws after an Indigenous man served 12 years behind bars for a murder he played no part in.

Only male artistic directors have run the National Theatre. It’s time to address that, says the Guardian’s chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar

Crikey clarifies why Anthony Albanese launched another review into the Chinese lease on the port, and why the outcome was to change nothing.

In a speech in Washington today, Anthony Albanese will say the relationship between Australia and the US is an alliance for a common cause, not against a common enemy, and a former Liberal minister unwittingly spruiked a Chinese criminal gang accused of laundering $228 million.

A freed Israeli hostage, 85, has said her Hamas captors treated her ‘gently’ and with ‘care’, but also that after her painful kidnapping she had ‘been through hell’. And AUKUS discussions with Democrats and Republicans remain ‘productive’, PM Anthony Albanese says.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart called for Voice, treaty and truth. On October 14, Australians said “no” to the Voice to the Parliament, choosing not to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory body in the Constitution. Many Indigenous Australians are devastated, seeing the result as a dismissal…

There is a huge variation in the hourly cost of childcare across the country. Our map shows the average where you live, and how much it’s gone up