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Acclaimed Australian movie Samson And Delilah has been named best feature film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Queensland's Gold Coast. Warwick Thornton's debut feature tells the story of two young Aboriginal teenagers locked in a brutal cycle of...
Tags: Asia Pacific, Australia, Alice Springs, films, Samson and Delilah, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Warwick Thornton, Entertainment Culture, Marissa Gibson, Adam Elliot, City of Life and Death, Delilah, Human Interest, Christian films, Harvie Krumpet, About Elly, Asghar Farhadi
The Federal Government says it will soon be able to start work cleaning up impoverished Indigenous town camps in Alice Springs after winning a vital legal challenge. Sixteen of the camps have agreed to sign 40-year leases with the Commonwealth in return...
Tags: town camps, Barbara Shaw, Alice Springs, camps resident, Australia, Jenny Macklin, Politics, Alice Springs Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Macklin, Lease, Business Finance, Minister for Families Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Henderson, Indigenous Australian communities, Mansfield Massachusetts
Australia — State authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small town in Australia's Outback in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies. The Northern...
Tags: Docker River, wild camels, feral camels, locals government, Rob Knight, breast cancer, government minister, Australia, Alice Springs, Camelids, Livestock, Camel, Environment, Kaltukatjara Northern Territory, Australian feral camel, Feral, Outback, African cuisine, Milk, MacDonnell Shire, Middle Eastern cuisine, War Conflict, Alpha-fetoprotein, Progesterone, Estrogen, Risk factors of breast cancer, Cancer, Health Medical Pharma, Dromedary, Australian Aboriginal culture, AFPep
Diabetes is a world-beating national shame, write Paul Zimmet and Alex Brown. Alice Springs is in the process of becoming the world's capital of diabetes, already ripping through our indigenous community at a frightening pace. It already has one of the...
Tags: Alice Springs, diabetic institute, indigenous communities, Western Australia, baker idi, idi heart, New York City, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Medical research, Obesity, Diabetes mellitus, International Diabetes Federation, Diabetes, Metabolic disorders, Nutrition, Health Medical Pharma
A man from Darwin has died at a Central Australian gold mine overnight, Northern Territory Police say. Sergeant Rudy Jamieson says police in Yuendumu, about 300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs, received a call at 1am to report that a man had died...
Tags: Yuendumu, Australia, Alice Springs, Darwin Northern Territory, Yuendumu Northern Territory, Human Interest, Northern Territory, Indigenous Australian communities, Northern Territory Police
Dr Koen de Decker, Dr Colin Marchant and Dr John Wakerman near Alice Springs. Aboriginal medical service in Alice Springs have threatened to leave if the Federal Government allows a Canadian company to mine uranium near the town. Protesters will press...
Tags: Northern Territory, Cameco, Alice Springs Town Council, Australia, Alice Springs, Kon Vatskalis, Central Australia, S&P/TSX 60 Index, S&P/TSX Composite Index, Environment
Targeted Family Support Service which provides intensive case management for individual families. Additional staff including two social workers and two Aboriginal case workers will be employed so that the service can expand its case management capacity...
Tags: Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Alice Springs Transformation Plan, Alice Springs Media Statement, early intervention, Australia, Alice Springs, Alice Springs Northern Territory, Indigenous Australians, Australian Aboriginal culture, Jenny Macklin, Central Australia, Social Issues
It receives financial compensation from the Commonwealth Government equivalent to the value of royalties paid by mining interests on Aboriginal land. Aboriginals Benefit Accounts projects
Tags: Alice Springs, nt indigenous, ABA Advisory Committee, indigenous communities, Australia
The Supreme Court heard cousins Daniel Vella and Joseph Galea were driving towards Darwin from Melbourne when they were stopped just south of Alice Springs on Valentine's Day. Police found five grams of methylamphetamine in their vehicle, with 77 LSD...
Tags: Australia, Alice Springs, Detection dog, Lysergic acid diethylamide, Mind control, Hemp, Legality of cannabis
AN Aboriginal woman will serve as Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of the Northern Territory for the first time. NT Attorney-General Delia Lawrie today named Patricia Miller to the position, after several days of controversy and speculation surrounding...
Tags: Dr Miller, discrimination commissioner, Australia, Alice Springs, Discrimination, Delia Lawrie, Year of birth missing, Northern Territory