A traditional owner of Australia’s famous Kings Canyon and the region’s most important gas field has been charged with child abuse offences in a case believed to be linked to a police operation targeting online predators who try to groom kids for sex. theaustralian.com.au/nation/custodi…

The traditional owners of Juukan Gorge have accused Western Australia’s Aboriginal sacred sites registrar of grossly misrepresenting what was known about the significance of the rock shelters before they were blown up by Rio Tinto. theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…

A former Northern Territory policeman will spend at least three months behind bars after pleading guilty to selling cocaine to a colleague and to stealing a police gun. theaustralian.com.au/nation/former-…

An Aboriginal organisation set up to manage millions of dollars worth of royalties from the Jabiru uranium mine — and that now owns stakes in some of Kakadu’s best tourism assets — has been plunged into turmoil amid a push by managers to wind it up. theaustralian.com.au/nation/million…

Millions at stake in Kakadu conflict theaustralian.com.au/nation/million… via Amos Aikman

Billions of dollars, hundreds of reports, dozens of inquiries and endless hand-wringing have done far less than is urgently needed to improve the lives of Aboriginal children living in remote parts of the Northern Territory. theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…

Six Northern Territory Aboriginal children, each known by authorities to be at risk of severe harm, died in tragic circumstances from causes including suicide and petrol sniffing and without receiving “genuine assistance or support”, a coroner has found. theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…

The rapid growth of solar installations in the Northern Territory could make the Top End’s publicly owned fossil fuel generator financially unviable, according to the jurisdiction’s Auditor-General. theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…

Consumers will have to pay higher electricity bills and taxpayers will have to fork out at least $1bn extra if the NT is to meet Labor’s ambitious green energy target, according to modelling that contradicts politicians’ claims the target will cost nothing theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…

A lack of action on sky-high remote grocery prices has left impoverished Indigenous people paying 40 to 60 per cent more for food than other Australians, despite at least three inquiries over the past decade recommending similar solutions. theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigen…

The death of a boy in a remote Northern Territory community has forced the Top End’s public utility to conduct an urgent audit of poorly maintained electrical equipment after investigators found evidence the boy was electrocuted by the roof of his home. theaustralian.com.au/nation/boy-11-…

Ken Wyatt has signalled his readiness to circumvent state and territory governments that fail to meet their Close the Gap obligations and do deals with Indigenous people instead. theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigen…

The governments pushing northern development are their own worst enemies, with a lack of co-ordination and progress around structural reform, regulatory harmonisation and “de-risking” investments the main barriers to achieving economic growth. theaustralian.com.au/nation/top-end…

The NT’s largest and newest jail has been so riddled with problems that authorities failed to spot a new drug sweeping the facility or realise that prisoners were using it to self-medicate to “within an inch of their lives”, a court has heard. theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…

Three days before Christopher Malyschko died surrounded by killers in the “lifers’ wing” of Darwin’s troubled jail, one of the most notorious among them, Bradley Murdoch, “growled” at his fellow inmates about abusing the synthetic drug Kronic. theaustralian.com.au/nation/kronic-…

Author and director John Strehlow, the son of famous anthropologist Ted Strehlow, was lying awake one night when his mind turned to a century-old letter written, so it was always claimed, by a Lutheran missionary theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigen…

They killed backpackers, prostitutes and people they didn’t like in crimes of passion, revenge and mystery. Each one made his own contribution to the Northern Territory’s unenviable reputation for gruesome deaths. theaustralian.com.au/nation/killers…

If a fraction of the horrors portrayed over two harrowing coronial inquests in the Northern Territory were to occur in a wealthy part of a major Australian city, they would spark opprobrium. Heads would almost certainly roll — and fast. theaustralian.com.au/commentary/nor…

If a fraction of the horrors portrayed over two harrowing coronial inquests in the Northern Territory were to occur in a wealthy part of a major Australian city, they would spark opprobrium. Heads would almost certainly roll — and fast. theaustralian.com.au/commentary/nor…

The Northern Territory Health Department’s “outrageous” disregard for the law may be substantially to blame for the deaths of three Aboriginal children who died from sniffing petrol, the Coroner has been urged to find. theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigen…