The Federal Government will support communities in East Arnhem Land to establish an Indigenous aged care service for local Elders that also creates and sustains local jobs. Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, and Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health, Ken Wyatt AM, said foundation funding of $340,000 would help the project begin. […]

Though they inhabit opposite sides of the world, according to prominent academics at Melbourne University, Indigenous Australians and Irish Travellers share a similar history of discrimination, poverty and marginalisation. Indigenous Australians and Irish Travellers might be separated by twelve thousand miles and thousands of years of separate history, but today they share a common story.

DELAYS in awarding remote housing contracts will cost 15 Yolngu workers their jobs, a joint venture company has warned. Delta Reef Gumatj has finished the construction of nine houses on Galiwinku but is still in the dark on at least one tender due to delays within the Territory Government. DRG general manager Michael Martin said […]

The 40 metre Rugby League World Cup Street Mural of Smith, the Kangaroos captain, Chambers, a Nhulunbuy junior, and Ferguson, who plays for the Jillaroos, was commissioned by the Northern Territory Government to celebrate the first international to be played in the Top End. Through the support of the Northern Territory Government, Darwin will host […]

The government’s announcement in the May 2017 budget of a trial of random drug testing of 5,000 Youth Allowance and Newstart recipients has been almost universally criticised. While the prime minister claimed the program is “based on love”, the CEO of Jobs Australia has warned it will be so demeaning as to drive young people to sex work.

Is this Mary Magdalene? Forensic reconstruction of a holy relic puts a face to the skull of a Saint WAS she a prostitute? Was she Jesus’ wife? Mary Magdalene has generated fascination and controversy for more than 2000 years. Now we may know what she looked like. THE relic is one of the most precious […]

LONDON residents have told extremists that they have far more pressing things to worry about. Londoners told terror wannabes that they will never even scrape the top five of things that plague their tired, jumbled minds on a daily basis. 32-year-old accounts assistant Tom Booker said: “I already have nightmares on a rotating basis about […]

AUSTRALIA’S burger obsession is showing no signs of slowing. Aussie burgers have evolved from the days of canned pineapple and beetroot to a more sophisticated burger. Coming up on The Living Room on Channel Ten today is the annual ‘Hot List’ episode. In this episode, Miguel Maestre scours the country to track down his top five burgers in […]

THE Melbourne folk-pop duo, the Pierce Brothers aren’t strangers to the Territory having visited for the last few years. Fresh after performing overseas and putting together the first of three EPs due out in coming months, the Pierce Brothers, are embarking on a national tour. The twins Jack and Pat Pierce, have performed in Darwin […]

Is this Mary Magdalene? Forensic reconstruction of a holy relic puts a face to the skull of a Saint WAS she a prostitute? Was she Jesus’ wife? Mary Magdalene has generated fascination and controversy for more than 2000 years. Now we may know what she looked like. THE relic is one of the most precious […]

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