When addressing domestic and partner violence, First Nations communities need to be involved in how men’s behaviour change programs are developed and delivered.
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History is being repeated with the Northern Territory government finding ways to stop Aboriginal people from gaining access to water to use or trade.
We owe it to Aboriginal people living near uranium mines to learn more about what’s making them sick.
The first class action on stolen wages against the Commonwealth seeks compensation for wages owed to Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory.
Do we want to punish some of the most vulnerable young people in the community, or do we want to reduce re-offending? The Northern Territory’s proposed youth justice reforms suggest the former.
It’s hard enough to attract and keep health workers in the Northern Territory as it is. Now climate change is threatening to make things worse.
We discovered 11 (and probably more) new species of stygofauna living in water underground. These animals are usually blind, beautifully translucent and long-limbed.
In depicting brutal massacres and mission life, this film gets a lot right. And the model for its central protagonist may well be a young man called Narlim, exiled from his country in the late 1930s.
A 2018 ruling that alcohol should be no cheaper than $1.30 per unit resulted in sales of cask wine - the most problematic drink for Darwin and the wider Northern Territory - to fall by half.
We asked young people aged five to 15 in Darwin about their sense of safety and what they worry about in their community. Here's what they told us.
Warlpiri people in Yuendumu have been strident in their demands for justice for Walker and protections from ongoing police violence.
There are two interesting points about Australia’s travel bubble with New Zealand. It only includes NSW and the NT. And for now, it’s only one way.
Small mammals in northern Australia have been rapidly vanishing for the last 30 years, and scientists weren’t sure why. Now, a major new study found feral livestock are largely to blame.
Around 300 termite mounds dressed as people can be found along the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory. They sport all manner of accessories from bras to hard hats to beer cans.
The government wants more people to live in Australia’s north. So we looked at three scenarios to increase the population and the results don’t always look good for the north.
Queensland has become the latest state or territory to embark on an Indigenous treaty process. But for lasting progress to be made, the federal government cannot shirk its responsibility.
Open justice is in contest with other rights as the Northern Territory considers a bill to ban the media from juvenile court cases.
One of the ‘first white women’ to travel in the Northern Territory, Elsie Masson’s attitudes to the Aboriginal people she met expressed the contradictions of racial thought at this time.
Primary prevention programs with a footballing focus aim to change behaviours and attitudes among men towards women.
At the Maningrida football Grand Final in 2015, commentary was recorded in nine languages. But elsewhere, the threat of language loss poses a serious risk to our nation’s cultural inheritance.
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Research Fellow, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
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Claire Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Senior Research Associate, Charles Darwin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate professor, University of New England
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PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Flinders University
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Early Career Academic Fellow, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environment Law, The University of Melbourne
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Chris Rissel is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Associate professor in Marine Biology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies, Deakin University
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Director, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
