'Seeing patients in corridors': Dire state of NT health services laid bare before election
A new survey reveals nearly all of the NT's remote health services believe they are ill-equipped to deliver safe health care to patients.
Matt Garrick is a journalist and author at ABC Darwin.
Based in northern Australia since 2009, his focus is on issues affecting the Top End and Darwin, Central Australia and Northeast Arnhem Land.
His first book, Writing in the Sand, an authorised biography of NT band Yothu Yindi, was published by ABC Books in 2021.
A new survey reveals nearly all of the NT's remote health services believe they are ill-equipped to deliver safe health care to patients.
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In 2016, the Country Liberal Party was sensationally booted from government in the Northern Territory. Eight years later, it could be returned to government after a long road back from the political wilderness.
The Warumpi Band's music is reaching a new generation through the musical Big Name, No Blankets, which has arrived in the NT's Top End.
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After more than four years of closure, there are positive signs that one of Kakadu National Park's most popular sites could soon be reopened to the public.
Federal MP Marion Scrymgour says she has engaged a lawyer after Lidia Thorpe suggested she had taken advantage of COVID-19 stimulus money while she was chief executive of the Northern Land Council.
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A saltwater crocodile almost 4 metres long seen stalking residents and dogs in the remote Northern Territory has been removed from a waterway in the territory's west.
In a spectacular about face, the NT government has reversed a decision to shift the annual Territory Day fireworks celebration from Mindil Beach, just weeks before the event is due to happen.
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Senator Lidia Thorpe has levelled scrutiny on the Northern Land Council over the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal COVID stimulus funding.
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