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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 ...
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NT Administrator John Hardy, Chief Minister Adam Giles, Opposition Leader Michael Gunner, NT Senator Nova Peris, Darwin Lord Mayor Katrina Fong Lim, Commodore Brenton Smyth, Commander Northern Command, Lieutenant General John Toolan, ...
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Record crowds have commemorated Anzac Day in the Northern Territory, with up to 10,000 attending the dawn service at Darwin's cenotaph and 5,500 people gathering at the top of Anzac Hill in Alice Springs. Veterans from World War II, the Vietnam and ...
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The RSL hosted around 60,000 people for the CBD service, but the centenary. In Albany, where Padre Arthur Ernest White held Australia's first dawn service in 1930, crowds at Mount Clarence around 4,500 gathered. And in Darwin an estimated 8000 people ...
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It's a perfect day in the tropics for the Anzac Centenary March through Darwin, with thousands of people lining the streets of the CBD to honour servicemen and women past and present. The applause isn't faltering as Territorians cheer and whistle for ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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