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Darwin company Choong Enterprises cops $335017 penalty for underpaying ...

A Darwin company has been ordered to pay $335,017 in restitution after it was found to have ripped off foreign workers on 457 visas, in a case that is the first of its kind in Australia. The Immigration Minister won the Federal Court case against ... >> view original

Amazing Rentals banned from operating in Darwin for 12 months after leasing ...

The CEO of the Northern Australia Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) Priscilla Collins said the agency's lawyers started getting calls about Amazing Rentals in early 2012. "We had all these people coming to us saying they had signed all these agreements ... >> view original

Two Darwin men in hospital after stabbing

Two men are in the same hospital with stab wounds after getting into a fight after a car journey in Darwin. The men aged 34 and 43 were travelling together in a Jeep Cherokee about 1am on Thursday when they got into an argument. They got out of the car ... >> view original

Use of isolation, behaviour management in Darwin's Don Dale youth prison ...

The Northern Territory has the highest rate of youth incarceration in Australia, with three-quarters of those detained on remand, meaning they are awaiting court hearings or sentencing, and 95 per cent of those detained of Indigenous background. This ... >> view original

Escaped Darwin teens break back into prison after two days, captured doing ...

Two teenagers have escaped from Darwin's youth detention and then smashed their way back into the prison with a car, performing burnouts inside the facility. Police have confirmed the pair broke out of Don Dale Youth Detention Centre on Sunday night ... >> view original

Sheedy wants Darwin Cup to have an AFL flavour

"We would give any application consideration because at the end of day we stage games in every state and territory in Australia," he said. "We've just had a game in Alice Springs and the ground in Darwin has a capacity of 10,000." And Darwin Racing ... >> view original

Teen jail escapees allegedly steal car to break back into Darwin detention centre

Two teenagers who allegedly escaped Darwin's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre have been pictured re-entering the facility in an allegedly stolen car to perform burnouts. 9NEWS has obtained exclusive phone vision taken from a police car pursuing the ... >> view original

These intimate photos capture the painful experience of teens living with diabetes

Parents can ask, "How do you feel today?" Friends can ask, "Does it hurt to use a needle?" But only a young person living with juvenile diabetes — they make up 5 percent of Americans who have diabetes — intimately understands what it feels like to live with ... >> view original

Asbestos scare: Alcoa workers at Kwinana exposed to white asbestos

ALCOA workers have been exposed to white asbestos at its Kwinana refinery in Perth's south. On May 1, seven maintenance staff working on the plant's mud thickener noticed a white powdery substance in the roof sheeting, which was confirmed to be ... >> view original

First ever skull-scalp transplant surgery performed by US doctors

Houston: In a major breakthrough in transplant surgery, the world's first skull-scalp transplant was performed by American surgeons on a man who suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment. MD Anderson Cancer Center and Houston Methodist ... >> view original