Amos Aikman
The Australian
Darwin, NT, Australia
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Alice Springs blackout tied up in red tape, unions claim
An Alice Springs business group says lives and livelihoods were put at risk by yesterdays extended blackout, and if it was prolonged by unnecessary testing then that would reflect a pretty arrogant thought process by the public utility. → Read More
Questions over Northern Territory top job posting
The former head of Western Australias strife-torn Aboriginal affairs department, who left behind an agency riven with allegations of bullying and a toxic culture, has been appointed to a key Red Centre post in the Northern Territory under controversial, race-based hiring rules. → Read More
Don Dale child detention: royal commission releases girls’ paintings
The overdue and overbudget child detention royal commission has taken the opportunity of the UN-sponsored International Day of the Girl Child to release a gallery of paintings by Don Dale inmates. → Read More
NT budget: more spending in bid to conquer slowdown
Labor plans to triple the Northern Territorys budget deficit and kick any prospect of a return to surplus into the never-never as it tries to combat a long-forecast economic slowdown with more public spending, while refusing to lift a moratorium on onshore gas development. → Read More
NT votes to decide leadership
Welcome to our live coverage of the Northern Territory election night. Voters went to the polls today and counting will begin from 6pm to determine the 25 seats in play. → Read More
China objects to US ‘risk’ after Darwin port polling
China insists the 99-year lease of Darwin’s port is a normal commercial operation that poses no security risk to Australia and claims that allowing the US to exercise its B-1 bombers in the Top End is a risk to regional stability. → Read More
NT Deputy Chief Minister Westre van Holthe rejects resignation calls
NT Deputy Chief Minister Willem Westra van Holthe has rejected calls for his resignation despite admitting he came close to doing a $570,000 private deal with a company from which government is seeking investment from and which employed his current partner at the time the deal was discussed. → Read More
Turnbull blamed for derailing leaders’ meeting on tax reform
Northern Territory leader Adam Giles has blamed the Prime Minister’s perceived fumbling of the tax reform debate for derailing a planned meeting in Darwin at which it was hoped state and territory leaders would agree a joint position on whether or not to lift the GST. → Read More
NT MP Dan Tollner backs NRA video over Australia gun laws
Outgoing Northern Territory Treasurer and former Howard government MP Dave Tollner has backed the United States National Rifle Associations controversial stand on Australian gun laws and called for more people to take up arms here to help kill feral animals. → Read More
Former Retta Dixon residents seek fresh probe into pedophile
FORMER residents of a Darwin missionary home where Stolen Generation and other children were allegedly viciously sexually abused will try for the third time to get justice by asking police to lay fresh charges against one of their accused tormentors, convicted pedophile Donald Henderson. → Read More
Cases of children in NT out of home care jump 90pc in five years
THE number of children in out of home care in the Northern Territory has risen 90 per cent in the past five years, increasing the pressure on already-stretched child protection services, a royal commission has heard. → Read More
Child abuse claims not our responsibility: home carer
A CARER at a Darwin missionary home where Stolen Generation children allegedly suffered vicious sexual abuse knew kids living there were at risk, but did not warn police, parents or other carers because doing so would have been “inappropriate”, a royal commission has heard. → Read More
Human rights campaigner Tom Calma was ‘helpless’ when told of sexual abuse allegations: inquiry
PROMINENT indigenous human rights campaigner Tom Calma was told of horrific allegations of sexual abuse at a Darwin missionary home that were never followed up, a royal commission has heard. → Read More
Eyes wide shut to blackfellas
THREE days before Tony Abbott arrived in Arnhem Land a group of Yolngu leaders met beneath a mango tree to decide what to tell the Prime Minister, and I joined them. → Read More
Retta Dixon children ‘chained up and beaten’, inquiry hears
ABORIGINAL children at the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin suffered harrowing sexual and physical abuse, including being chained up, beaten until they bled and repeatedly touched inappropriately, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard. → Read More
Kids up and out as Tony Abbott joins Arnhem Land truancy patrol
THEY are known as Mil’gnu, or spies, and they rise early. They tour the streets in yellow jerseys, getting children to school. Yesterday their number in the community of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land was significantly increased when Tony Abbott and his entourage joined their “walking bus”. → Read More
Tony Abbott to suspend Arnhem Land visit for troop farewell
THE Prime Minister is expected to interrupt his promised week-long visit to an indigenous community by leaving Arnhem Land temporarily to farewell troops departing for combat operations in the Middle East. → Read More
Tents situation as Abbott runs nation remotely
THE “wonders of modern communication” have allowed Tony Abbott to hold a cabinet meeting, email and make a conference call with the new ASIO boss Duncan Lewis at a time the nation is on the brink of war, all from a ten t in Arnhem Land. → Read More
Abbott sees how Arnhem Land people take hold of their destiny
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott today saw at first hand how the indigenous people of Arnhem Land have taken hold of their destiny. → Read More
Promise fulfilled, Tony Abbott settles into Arnhem Land base
MOMENTS after he formally placed Australia on a war footing, Tony Abbott yesterday flew to one of the most remote regions of the country to honour a long-held commitment to indigenous communities. → Read More