Matt Cunningham

The head of the Northern Territory’s police union says the failed referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, a Royal Commission into youth justice and an ongoing coronial inquiry into a police shooting have shattered the morale of officers and caused fractures between Aboriginal people and police.

The Labor Party has been accused of engaging in a “low act” after it circulated a flyer claiming one its candidates in the upcoming Northern Territory election had the support of an independent, who is actually running against her.

The heads of the Northern Territory’s education and health departments have been sacked as part of a major shake-up of the public service under the new CLP government.

A teenager who raped a 12-year-old girl in a remote Northern Territory community went on to rape another 13-year-old girl while on bail for the first offence.

Northern Territory police have arrested a woman and two teenage girls after they allegedly bashed and robbed a 101-year-old man on a mobility scooter.

Northern Territory Government departments spent more than $7 million on the coronial investigation into the police shooting of Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker.

The Northern Territory government is considering changes to the Coroner’s Act following the “extraordinary” blowout in the cost of the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker.

Crocodile wrangler Matt Wright has pleaded not guilty to three charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice relating to the fatal chopper crash that killed his friend and Netflix co-star Chris “Willow” Wilson.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has slammed “placard-waving activists” opposed to her government’s crime crackdown as she flagged further changes to youth justice laws.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has said the coroner has questions to answer about the way she delivered her findings into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, an Indigenous man shot dead by police.