The Latest Breaking News from Xavier Martin

Farmers have called for a consumer watchdog inquiry, rather than a review, into the supermarket sector after accusing it of failing producers and consumers.

NSW Farmers say a process to protect people and property in flood-prone areas is long overdue, especially after the deadly devastation in the Northern Rivers last year.

A native title determination recognising commercial rights for the first time in Central Australia has been settled, seven years after the claims process began.

At least one home has been destroyed and several other dwellings have been impacted by a bushfire that tore through an Alice Springs rural area Friday afternoon.

The annual event brings together 20 ranger groups from Central Australia and includes sessions on catching venomous snakes, operating side-by-side vehicles and first aid.

Australia's first Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner visits Alice Springs to meet frontline workers, acknowledging that better data is needed to set successful targets for the reduction of domestic violence.

The inquest into the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker has adjourned until July after a further two weeks of evidence, with attitudes, culture and discipline within the NT Police force in the spotlight.

The Assistant Police Commissioner tells the coronial inquest into the death of Mr Walker that evidence from the perjury investigation into Constable Zachary Rolfe over an allegation that the officer "lied" to a court should have been referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions for decision.

Former NT Australian of the Year Leanne Liddle fronts an inquest into the shooting death of an Indigenous man in Alice Springs, telling the coroner she has seen "many" examples of systemic racism in the NT Police Force.