Alice Springs
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School for disadvantaged students celebrates first ever formal Video
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St Joseph's Flexible Leaning Centre in Alice Springs is preparing to graduate a record number of students, including some who are the first member of their family to ever finish Year 11.
Topics: community-and-society, public-schools, secondary-schools, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, alice-springs-0870
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Tracks author reflects on the epic desert trek that changed her life
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Four decades since Robyn Davidson embarked on a 2,700-kilometre trek across the harsh Australian desert with her dog Diggity and four camels in tow, she has no regrets — but says the same kind of journey would be impossible today.
Topics: books-literature, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, biography-film, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, human-interest, australia, nt, alice-springs-0870, wa
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Indigenous students celebrate school's first formal
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There's excitement in the air at St Joseph's Flexible Learning Centre in Alice Springs. The high school for disadvantaged Indigenous students is holding its first formal.
Topics: secondary-schools, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, dance, alice-springs-0870, nt
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NT judge engaged in 'unacceptable, inappropriate judicial conduct'
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Judge Greg Borchers lacked courtesy, tolerance, patience, and sensitivity in multiple dealings in court and brought the judiciary into disrepute, a review finds, but he will continue to preside over youth justice courts outside of Alice Springs.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, tennant-creek-0860, nt, alice-springs-0870
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Mountain bike boom a boon for country towns in the race for tourism dollars
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Towns are eyeing off the economic boost from building mountain bike trails to draw cashed-up adventure tourists.
Topics: cycling, economic-trends, lifestyle-and-leisure, environment, collie-6225, derby-7264, maydena-7140, creswick-3363, harcourt-3453, warburton-3799, wollongong-2500, caloundra-4551, alice-springs-0870, bright-3741, mount-beauty-3699, yackandandah-3749, thredbo-village-2625, falls-creek-3699, beechworth-3747, forrest-3236, cairns-4870, guanaba-4210
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Namatjira painting gifted to Alice Springs dialysis centre to raise funds for nurses' wages
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The rare painting is in impeccable condition and considered by London auctioneers Sotheby's to be better than its sister artwork at the National Gallery of Australia.
Topics: visual-art, painting, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, health, alice-springs-0870, nt
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NT community awarded for 'unique' human rights efforts
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Disability and LGBTQI advocates, community leaders, lawyers and a school are among this year's Northern Territory Human Rights Awards winners, with the Territory's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner praising the "hard and unique work" delivered by those on the ground.
Topics: human, rights, awards-and-prizes, darwin-0800, nt, alice-springs-0870
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Pine Gap protestors learn their fate Video
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A group of peace activists who illegally entered the top-secret Pine Gap defence base near Alice Springs have avoided jail time.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, defence-and-national-security, alice-springs-0870
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Pine Gap protesters spared jail to avoid creating 'martyr'
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A group of Christian peace activists who illegally entered a top-secret facility in Central Australia to pray for people who they believed had been killed by US drone strikes avoid jail time, with the judge telling the court he didn't want to make a "martyr" of one of the offenders.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, nt, alice-springs-0870
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A 17-year-old girl has been charged with the stabbing of a man in Alice Springs image
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Topics: crime, alice-springs-0870
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Alice Springs business owner Garth Thompson says anger is building image
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Topics: crime, alice-springs-0870
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Jo Huyben, Director of the Southern Youth Outreach and Re-engagement Team in Alice Springs image
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Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, work, alice-springs-0870
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Indigenous elder Phillip Alice invites Alice Springs council to form partnership to tackle youth crime image
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Topics: crime, alice-springs-0870
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Police use portable light towers in an effort to deter young offenders in Alice Springs image
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Topics: crime, alice-springs-0870
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Alice Springs a 'town under siege' from youth crime
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Concern over youth crime in Alice Springs intensifies following a spate of violent assaults, brawls and robberies, with Indigenous elders keen to work with the local council to tackle the problem.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, youth, alice-springs-0870
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Rex Neindorf with a six foot long mulga snake image
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Topics: animals, reptiles, alice-springs-0870
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Snake in a spa no match for determined Red Centre snake catcher
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A deadly western brown slithers under a spa in the Red Centre making capture a slippery and lengthy process.
Topics: reptiles, human-interest, alice-springs-0870
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Known and ignored: The NT royal commission on where the buck stops
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The royal commission found that key decision-makers knew that conditions in youth detention put young people at risk, but they failed to adequately invest to make change.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, nt, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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Pine Gap activists found guilty over entering top-secret US-Australian facility
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Five Christian peace activists face up to seven years in prison after being found guilty of entering the top-secret Pine Gap defence facility near Alice Springs.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, unrest-conflict-and-war, alice-springs-0870, nt
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A Big Country: Rains bring out the desert frogs Audio
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Desert frogs are in full voice after recent heavy rains in central Australia. Alice Springs-based ecologist Alistair Stewart checks out the frogs looking for mates in a storm drain behind his house. Read more
Topics: amphibians, weather, rainfall, alice-springs-0870
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Australian red meat sector sets 2030 carbon neutral target
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Research and marketing group Meat and Livestock Australia says the country's red meat industry could be carbon neutral by 2030, and the target will prove farming red meat is environmentally sustainable.
Topics: environmentally-sustainable-business, climate-change, environmental-impact, environmental-management, agribusiness, beef-cattle, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800, longreach-4730, port-pirie-5540, kununurra-6743
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Pine Gap facility 'essential' to US drone strikes, expert says
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A group of activists on trial for entering the top-secret facility call a Pine Gap expert who says it is "perhaps the most important US intelligence facility outside the US".
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, alice-springs-0870, nt
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The royal commission into NT youth detention has failed children Opinion
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Its recommendations do not go far enough for a range of reasons, but two stand out, writes Holly Doel-Mackaway.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, child-abuse, community-and-society, children, royal-commissions, prisons-and-punishment, states-and-territories, darwin-0800, nt, alice-springs-0870
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Spencer's Burrowing Frog enjoys rare wet weather in outback Australia image
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Topics: rainfall, weather, animals, amphibians, pasture, alice-springs-0870
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Desert Tree Frogs out in force in Alice Springs image
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Topics: rainfall, weather, environment, animals, pasture, amphibians, alice-springs-0870
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