Federal Labor’s First Nations Caucus Committee will be in Katherine this week to talk with local people and organisations to get their input into Labor policies and commitment.
First Nations Caucus Chair, Northern Territory Senator Malarndirri McCarthy and Secretary Luke Gosling […]

A Shorten Labor Government will scrap upfront fees for 100,000 TAFE students in a move welcomed by the Member for Solomon, Luke Gosling.

The policy is part of a comprehensive plan to support TAFEs, vocational education and apprenticeships in the Northern […]

The Turnbull Government is continuing to politicise its City Deals program by prioritising some cities ahead of others based on the electoral cycle.

At Senate Estimates this week the Cities Division was unable to confirm precisely when Darwin, Hobart and Perth […]

58,000 people in Darwin and Palmerston will be up to $928 better off thanks to Labor’s bigger, better and fairer income tax cut, new data reveals.

Labor’s Tax Refund for Working Australians nearly doubles the tax cuts being offered by the […]

‘SEE YOU IN 5 YEARS’ – THE TURNBULL GOVERNMENT’S APPROACH TO NT INFRASTRUCTURE

The Turnbull Government’s deception over Territory infrastructure investment in Budget 2018 has been exposed during Senate Estimates hearings.

Despite CLP Senator Nigel Scullion’s best attempts to pull the wool […]

In May 2017 the Northern Territory Government and the Federal Government signed an MOU for a City Deal for Darwin. It’s now been one year since the MOU was signed and we’re still waiting.

Townsville’s City Deal was signed after […]

Since the Turnbull Government cut 80 per cent of the staff from the NT Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) office in 2017, there has not been one NT site visit by the Indigenous Electoral Participation Program.

In May 2017 AEC CEO Mr Rogers […]

Northern Australia is responsible for generating fifty per cent of the nation’s exports. The Greater Darwin region is Australia’s staging-post into Asia and a cornerstone of our national security.

And yet, as Katie Woolf pointed out in these pages recently, the […]

Today’s Federal Government announcement of 12 months of GST funding, and 5 years of Indigenous Housing contribution, is a step forward.
We have previously said that the two year funding model that the Turnbull Government previously proposed was never feasible.
Five years […]

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