Wage claims threaten large scale projects: Gray
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-05-13 20:38:41 -0700 | political-news
The comments come after reports the Maritime Union of Australia is bargaining for cooks to be paid up to $230,000 a year working on the Ichthys LNG project off WA's north-west coast...The MUA is understood to be in wage negotiations...
Sky watchers go bush to see eclipse 'ring of fire'
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-05-08 22:46:30 -0700 | political-news
Tomorrow, the moon will move across the sun and, for a few minutes after 8:00am Central Standard Time, an aptly named "ring of fire" will be visible. Astronomer Melissa Hulbert says only people in and around Tennant Creek, about 1,000...
We'll fight for May Day holiday, ACTU says
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-05-06 04:04:20 -0700 | political-news
Speaking in the Northern Territory, the only jurisdiction in Australia that still provides a public holiday to commemorate May Day, Ms Kearney urged unionists to protect it. "Union members be proud of this day...May Day is celebrated in many countries...
MAN MARRIES A SOW!
Posted by: Allusthur
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-05-02 10:26:47 -0700 | political-news
IN a two worlds colliding, two worlds shuttering, universal “shock you out of your skin” news just in, a Nauru Parliament has voted 33-11 to allow a man to marry his beloved pet, a sow! According to reputable source, the...
Mystery of the first Aboriginal flag
Source: The Australian
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-05-01 04:51:26 -0700 | political-news
THE designer of the Aboriginal flag, flown for the first time at a demonstration in Adelaide's Victoria Square in 1971, has called for help to find his original item. As the square's upgrade continues, artist and activist Harold Thomas says...
Chief Minister to PM: Stop bullying NT
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-04-29 01:50:39 -0700 | political-news
Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles says Julia Gillard was acting like a bully by making veiled threats to force his government into changing its alcohol policies. The governing Country Liberal Party (CLP) in the NT has drawn Canberra's disapproval over...
Hackers target Bureau of Statistics data
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-04-26 00:29:56 -0700 | political-news
Breaking news Darwin hockey player dies after being bitten by a snake on training field...While the ABS says none of the attempted attacks were successful, there are growing concerns that intelligence about Australia's economy is being eyed by either governments...
Prison break: Killer memory was key
Source: The Australian
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-04-12 10:22:14 -0700 | political-news
Daniel Heiss, who was serving life for killing a 22-year-old tradie, engaged guards at Darwin prison in small talk. As they chatted, he made a mental note of the details of the master cell key hanging from every officer's belt....
Irate TV viewer fatally burns noisy neighbour
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-04-11 20:19:24 -0700 | political-news
Darin Andrew Clare, 36, has pleaded guilty to murdering 60-year-old Philip John Cure, who was also known by the nickname 'Pig', in Darwin's rural area last year. The Northern Territory Supreme Court was told Clare was angry at the victim...
Salvation Army Red Shield appeal launched
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-04-11 04:25:59 -0700 | political-news
THE federal government has donated $350,000 towards this year's Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal target of $79 million. In a message to the appeal launch in Darwin on Thursday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the Salvos were not only one...
Dreyfus joins push for free birth certificates
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-04-03 16:22:29 -0700 | political-news
An estimated 15,000 children born in Australia every year do not receive birth certificates, and about one-third are Indigenous. Not having a birth certificate prevents people from doing things like registering to vote, gaining a driver's licence or applying for...
Problem crocodile shot after menacing children
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2013-03-18 20:02:39 -0700 | political-news
Locals say the crocodile is the one that had been a problem for about two years in the area. They say the big saltie sometimes stopped children from crossing the causeway at the community to attend school. Senior wildlife ranger...
Australia: Here come the Yanks
Posted by: northsunm32
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2012-11-02 14:05:12 -0700 | political-news
Two hundred U.S. marines landed in the north-western Australian port of Darwin. They will be there on a six month rotation and will take part in joint exercises with Australian forces. As part of the U.S. imperial design to contain...
200 U.S. Marines to Australia
Posted by: lethibichlan
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2012-07-27 04:39:24 -0700 | political-news
The American soldiers off the plane at a Royal Air Force base in Darwin Australia today. About 200 U.S. Marines, the first batch of about 2,500 U.S. troops will be deployed in northern Australia, today the city of Darwin when...
Australian inquest considers dingo-baby mystery
Source: Fox
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2012-04-24 20:57:45 -0700 | entertainment-news
A coroner on Friday opened the fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitter legal drama in Australia's history: the 1980 death of a 9-week-old baby whose parents say a dingo took her from a tent in the Australian Outback....
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