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Tangentyere Artist, Marlene Rubuntja



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Threaded together Rabbi Kastel



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Grace Robinya from Tangentyere Arts Centre says thank you to all the organisations that have donated blankets and warm clothes.



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Threaded Together weaving good news in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands



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Young Pipalyatjara residents show off their new clothes, thanks to Threaded Together, ahead of the 2017 fashion show



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Greg Fisher spent seven years and 10 months in jail for dealing drugs. He's now heading up the charity Threaded Together, a charity that aims to diver




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$50,000 worth of winter clothes and blankets help keep remote residents warm in sub-zero conditions

Thread Together, a charity committed to reducing waste in the era of fast fashion, joins forces with a rabbi to help an Indigenous community stay warm over the cold desert winter.



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Territory Day celebrations leave revellers unscathed, but beaches were not so lucky

The smoke has cleared and the post-cracker night clean-up is underway, but how much damage was done?




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Cyclist safety laws coming to Northern Territory a 'challenge' for truck drivers, association says

A road transport group says it will be difficult for truck drivers to give cyclists a wider berth, as required by new rules coming to the Territory.




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Health professionals voice disappointment over lack of bush commission hearings

A lack of aged care facilities has been badly impacting on the remote Northern Territory's elderly, but many of their stories will not reach the ears of royal commissioners.





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Is the NT kicking its cask wine addiction? Bottle shops lifting their restrictions say yes

Bottle shops in Darwin have eased voluntary restrictions on the sale of cask wine, saying Government policies have made them superfluous. But the move has prompted criticism from police, and a major supermarket giant has already backtracked.





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Good Samaritan drives 2,000km to bring family stranded in outback to Darwin

A Victorian family stranded in the outback arrives in Darwin thanks to a good Samaritan who embarked on a 22-hour round-trip rescue mission.




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NAIDOC Week sparks renewed calls to permanently fly Aboriginal flag in Alice Springs

Aboriginal traditional owners, politicians, and local community members are renewing calls for the Aboriginal flag to fly on Alice Springs's Anzac Hill 365 days a year, after it was raised on Monday morning solely to mark NAIDOC Week.



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Uluru climb closure looms as region nears breaking point with overflow of tourists, 'influx of waste'

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park's overflow campground, nearby roadhouses, and the resort at Yulara are at capacity as tourists flood the area to climb the rock before its permanent closure in October, reportedly forcing tourists to camp illegally on the side of the road.




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The Golden Nugget affair

As the dust settles over the outcome of the controversial running of the iconic race, questions remain over exactly what happened, and who benefitted.




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An oasis rediscovered finding the lost wells of the Simpson Desert

A journey into Australia's arid heart by camel train has retraced a remarkable archaeological discovery.





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Uluru climb closure won't hurt visitor numbers, says Parks Australia

Closing the climb at Uluru won't have a dramatic effect on tourist numbers, according to Parks Australia, who say visitor figures have been steadily increasing over the last six years.




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Grape company's gripe with NT Government over water allocation

One of Australia's biggest table grape companies is threatening to rip up vines and scrap its million-dollar plan to expand in the Northern Territory.




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Native wallaby brought back from brink of extinction in the Red Centre

The rufous hare-wallaby hasn't been seen in the wild of Central Australia since the early 1990s, but that's all changing at Newhaven Station.




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Bendigo's Mike Tobin was a 'tea boy' who went on to play a vital role in the Apollo 11 Moon mission

Mike Tobin started his career as a telecommunications apprentice and by the age of 27 he was monitoring the vital signs of the three astronauts in Apollo 11 from Canberra.




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Indigenous artist from NT wins Australia's richest landscape prize worth $100,000

Carbiene McDonald Tjangala takes his first ever flight to get from the NT to Tasmania to collect Australia's richest landscape prize for his painting representing his father's Dreamtime stories.




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Remote Australians are discovering they are richer by hundreds of thousands of dollars than they realised

There has been laughter and hugs as people in outback Australia discover millions of dollars in superannuation they did not know they had.




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Judge's 'clearly offensive' Indigenous parenting barb subject of complaint consideration

A Northern Territory judge previously sanctioned for "harsh" and "gratuitous" remarks from the bench has criticised other Aboriginal defendants. A legal body says the comments are "clearly offensive" but has not yet decided to make any formal complaint.






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Gorman Mangkaja collection breaks new ground for Indigenous fashion design collaboration

In a ground-breaking collaboration, Melbourne fashion label Gorman teams up with Indigenous artists whose work depicts places where sacred cultural knowledge has been passed down for thousands of years.




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Is there enough water for agricultural expansion at Ti Tree or not? NT Farmers 'drowning in bureaucracy'

The NT Government has been pushing for more agricultural development in the Red Centre, but farmers are now getting told there's not enough water.




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Hawthorn beats Geelong by 24 points at the MCG, the Saints down the Bulldogs and West Coast beats Melbourne

The Saints have given interim coach Brett Ratten a winning start by beating the Western Bulldogs at Docklands after the Hawks upset the Cats at the MCG and West Coast beat Melbourne in Alice Springs.




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Language app helps renal patients understand dialysis treatment in Central Australia

Software developed with the help of Alice Spring medical staff and Indigenous people from remote communities is set to break down the language barrier and ease the stress of patients undergoing dialysis treatment.




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Uluru custodian says it is time climb closure critics 'learn about the way we see it'

People criticising the decision to close the Uluru climb need to understand how the traditional owners, the Anangu, relate to the site, a senior custodian of Uluru says.



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Desert Tracks: Carolyn Lopes on growing up in New Zealand.



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Corporate watchdog ASIC 'building case' on payday lending practices, may impose ban in August

More payday lending practice stories are coming out of the woodwork as ASIC says it is "building a casebook" for a possible ban.




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Communities 'neglected or ignored for decades' as justice unit tackles Indigenous incarceration

Leanne Liddle has been shot at and seriously assaulted working as a police officer, but none of that compares to the "despair" she felt when consulting across the NT for the Aboriginal Justice Agreement, where whole communities had been "neglected for decades".




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National Road Transport Hall of Fame in administration after investigation finds financial irregularities

The future of one of outback Australia's tourist drawcards, the National Transport Hall of Fame, is in doubt after an independent audit found financial irregularities by management.



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Complaint lodged against judge who made 'offensive', 'discriminatory' comments to Aboriginal defendants

The head of the Australian Law Society says comments by Alice Springs Judge Greg Borchers were "racist because they are disparaging, discriminatory and offensive, insulting and humiliating to Indigenous Australians based solely on their race".




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Man dies in car crash after earlier police pursuit, prompting death in custody investigation

A fatal crash following a police pursuit near a community north-east of Alice Springs is being treated as a death in custody, with police declining to say what prompted them to chase the 42-year-old man.





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Top End cattle property Tipperary Station plants lemons as it diversifies into citrus, cotton

The Northern Territory's citrus industry takes a leap forward, with thousands of lemon trees planted on iconic cattle property Tipperary Station.




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Central Australian date farmers determined to fight cheap imports as industry grows for sugar substitutes

Date palms in the central desert are a legacy of Afghan cameleers bringing a little bit of home with them. Today, Australian farmers are keen to grow the local date industry to feed the Middle East and the health food sector, while staving off cheap imports.




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NT rural residents face spending thousands to truck in water if bores run dry

With groundwater levels critically low and the wet season yet to begin, some rural Northern Territory residents fear they may have to pay thousands of dollars to truck in water for their homes.




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Red Centre cattle property Mt Skinner sold to South Australian family for almost $10 million

After three generations on the property, Mt Skinner Station north of Alice Springs has left family hands for the first time in its history.




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Full steam ahead for National Road Transport Hall of Fame Truckies' Reunion

The National Truckies' Reunion will go ahead this August, despite the National Road Transport Society being placed under the control of a statutory manager.



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Rodeo clown Cain Burns takes full force of 600kg bull by diving under it to save rider from trampling

Sprinting into the path of a bucking 600-kilogram bull is not something most people would consider enjoyable, but it is what Cain Burns does for fun.