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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.

Australia does not have a national approach to VAD. So how do the laws differ across the country?

While the teams were racing in the Gold Coast 500, Supercars revealed the dates of two events to be held in the state of Queensland next season.

Exclusive: Discussion on panel came as federal government was developing reforms to address high rates of youth nicotine addiction

In only two months, 12.8 million hectares of Northern Territory land has burnt in what authorities are describing as the worst fire season in decades.

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

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

There are more than 1,500 remote First Nations communities and homelands around Australia, and about 670 of them have no mobile phone coverage. In research with 495 people from ten remote communities, we found 45.9% were “highly excluded” from increasingly important digital services and tools.