INPEX: What will happen to Darwin after the last of Australia's natural gas ... and other top stories

INPEX: What will happen to Darwin after the last of Australia's natural gas ...

For the last few years Darwin has repeated on a grand scale an experiment that is being conducted throughout Australia: what happens to a town when it becomes the site of a mega infrastructure project? In the next few years the outcome of this ... >> view original

Century-old Anzac wrong righted in Darwin

In a prelude to the dawn service, photos will be projected onto the cenotaph from other dawn services around Australia and New Zealand, and Member for Solomon Natasha Griggs will say a few words on behalf of Prime Minister Tony Abbott. NT Police ... >> view original

Australian-born asylum children will face 'bleak fate' after deportation from ...

Three Australian-born children could be in danger of becoming stateless when they are deported to Malaysia from a Darwin detention centre, a human rights lawyer says. The children, aged five, four, and two, were born in Queensland while their Malaysian ... >> view original

Legal action being taken to stop 5yo asylum seeker with PTSD in Wickham Point ...

He said she has been with her parents at Darwin's Wickham Point Detention Centre since October, after they were transferred from Nauru to Australia because her father needed urgent medical treatment. The family had been on Nauru for more than a year ... >> view original

Australia 'not in total control' of US Marine rotation

An expert in US politics says Australia is not in total control of the rotation of US Marines through Darwin and warns tensions may arise in the future. Associate Professor at the US Study Centre at the University of Sydney, Brendan O'Connor, sounded a ... >> view original

US Marines begin arriving in Darwin in fourth rotation as part of US 'pivot ...

The rotation follows speculation the growing US military presence in Darwin could cause tensions with China- an important trading partner for Australia. "When you are dealing with such a powerful ally and an ally that is so much more powerful than ... >> view original

Reports of asylum seekers self-harming at detention centre near Darwin ...

"Individuals are temporarily transferred from regional processing centres to Australia for a variety of reasons including medical treatment," it said in a statement. "They are returned to the regional processing centre once they no longer need to be in ... >> view original

Former Labor party president Matthew Gardiner arrested at Darwin airport

Mr Gardiner, 43, left his wife and two sons in Australia to leave for Syria in January, after making connections with others on social media who were sympathetic to the Kurdish cause. He was detained at the airport on Sunday morning as he arrived back ... >> view original

Meerkat matriarch to choose from two suitors in Darwin zoo

Two male meerkats have been set loose in an enclosure at a Darwin zoo, where they will attempt to woo a solitary female meerkat, after her previous companion passed away. They will be vying to become the matriarch meerkat's mate, with the loser ... >> view original

Darwin spearfisherman pats tiger shark, records close encounter

Video footage has emerged of a spearfisherman patting a wild tiger shark that swam beneath him at a reef near Darwin. Darwin man Rick Trippe filmed his encounter with the two-metre tiger shark at Bass Reef, about 55 kilometres east of Darwin on Tuesday. >> view original