A Northern Territory government plan to lock up problem drunks and force them to undergo rehabilitation could criminalise a health problem, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has warned.
The Gillard government has sought legal advice over whether it could block a Northern Territory government plan to transform a federally funded health building to a secure facility where problem drunks would be forced to undergo...
A small group of asylum seekers decamped from their boat in a virtually uninhabited peninsula in the Northern Territory, and were only discovered a day later at a nearby airstrip.
The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (Amec) on Tuesday expressed its displeasure at the Northern Territory’s (NT’s) decision to move ahead with the Mine Rehabilitation Levy, as well as to remove deductions of companies...