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.
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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.
Drinking water in Australia can be contaminated by natural and manmade processes, especially in communities. Innovation is needed to ensure water is ‘fit for purpose, place and people’.
One year after the Royal Commission into Northern Territory child detention recommended big changes, little of substance has been done to tackle the problem by the NT Labor government.
The NT is the only jurisdiction in Australia mandating the use of English in the Legislative Assembly – despite the fact 42% of the population doesn't speak English at home.
The NT has become the first jurisdiction in Australia to introduce a minimum price for alcohol.
In remote Northern Territory, most Aboriginal people have been buried in unmarked graves. Archaelogists are carrying out painstaking detective work to help communities find their loved ones' remains.
Research into Queensland's Darling Downs area has found social stress caused by housing pressure, population shifts and the 'two-speed economy' of coal seam gas.
Implementing the Don Dale royal commission's recommendations will test the capacity to redress the 'systemic and shocking failures' it identified.
Coral bleaching has struck the Northern Territory, adding urgency to the need for better national management strategies for our warming oceans.
International evidence shows minimum pricing policies can reduce alcohol-related harm. But a downside of the mechanism is that the extra money will go to industry rather than government.
The Don Dale royal commission's capacity to make lasting change lies with the government implementing its recommendations.
The trial of the cashless welfare card, to control unhealthy spending in Indigenous communities, is being expanded partly due to emotive well-funded campaigns. Meanwhile, evidence is being ignored.
Architecture can affect behaviour and the choices we make. The brief is out for a centre to replace the Don Dale facility, but word is, it's 'a disgrace'. We can do much better.
The Men's Painting Room - a Nissen hut in the government settlement of Papunya - is Australian art's most important atelier. A new form of creative expression happened here.
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Professorial Research Fellow, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Adjunct professor, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Research Associate, Charles Darwin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior lecturer/Reserch Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Flinders University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate professor in Marine Biology, University of Melbourne
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Director, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Medicine; Director, Centre for Chronic Disease, and Director, NHMRC CKD.CRE, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
