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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

Kwementyaye Langdon: Family looking for answers after Darwin Police watch ...

The family of a Central Australian man who died in the Darwin Police watch house after being arrested on suspicion of liquor-related offences two weeks ago are asking how it could have happened. The Northern Territory Police have said Kwementyaye ... >> view original

Amazing Rentals banned from operating in Darwin for 12 months

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

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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

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

Coal giant Peabody faces federal scrutiny over clean-up insurance

WASHINGTON Coal giant Peabody Energy has been among the harshest critics of federal energy policies, joining a court challenge to the Obama administration's new clean air regulations and denouncing its promotion of renewable fuels. But there is one ... >> view original

Ludlam decries 'failed' negative gearing

The Australian Greens want negative gearing abolished and the billions in savings used to help pay for homes for the nation's most vulnerable. The Greens have had the proposal to end the scheme on new housing investments costed by the independent ... >> view original

Sydney's Lucas Heights reactor to ramp up nuclear medicine production to meet ...

The controversial Lucas Heights reactor in southern Sydney is set to ramp up its production of nuclear medicine doses with an aim to meet up to a quarter of world demand. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has just ... >> view original

Looking For Alibrandi home sells for more than $1 million

PIA Miranda's character in the hit film Looking For Alibrandi didn't live a millionaire's lifestyle, but her humble home has just made more than $1 million. The pint-sized property at 1 Cardigan St in Glebe is on only 66sq m of land, has two bedrooms, one ... >> view original