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Large-scale evacuation under way in Top End, while most of Queensland remains on flood watch .
A large-scale evacuation of hundreds of flood-affected Northern Territory residents is under way, as tropical lows bring heavy rain to large parts of the Top End and northern Queensland. Several flood wa…
South Australia saw most of the season’s wildest swings with January heatwaves followed by February floods.
This summer ricocheted from extremely hot to intensely wet across parts of the country, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, with South Australia experiencing some of the season’s most ac…
Aboriginal leader says David Connolly won’t be welcome in communities amid calls for prime minister to scrap appointment.
The incoming Northern Territory administrator, David Connolly, has issued a last-minute apology over past social media posts – described as “racist” in parliament – that have i…
Daly River region is home to threatened species such as the ghost bat, Gouldian finch, pig-nosed turtle and red goshawk.
The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment …
Life-threatening flash flooding warned for central Queensland and NT as long-awaited rain brings landslide threat to bushfire-affected Victoria.
Heavy rain and floods are expected to sweep central and southern Australia, with thunderstorms forecast for parts of every state and territory on Sunday.…
Jake Danby’s sentence for hitting two Aboriginal men with his car, killing one, was extended from five months to two years in home detention.
The family of an Aboriginal man fatally run down before the driver bragged about his death are angry and heartbroken after their brother’s killer has again …
Vanessa Napaltjari Davis puts $70 per week on her prepaid electricity card – but as Alice Springs swelters through ever-hotter summers, that credit lasts less than three days.
Since the start of summer, Vanessa Napaltjari Davis and her grandchildren have sweltered in their two-bedroom home. Temper…
Melody Wehipeihana was dropping her kids off at school when she pulled over to see what a gathering crowd was looking at in the shallow puddle outside Humpty Doo hotel bottle shop in the Northern Territory. It was then that she was asked to jump on its back to help capture the croc so it could be …
Xiao Qian hits out at Labor’s policy to force the Chinese-owned company Landbridge to sell its 99-year lease on the port.
China’s ambassador to Australia says plans by the Albanese government to remove the Port of Darwin from Chinese ownership will put at risk future trade growth and force an inte…
David Connolly has previously attacked Aboriginal land rights and insulted Anthony Albanese. Now he’s moving into Government House.
In his own words, the man chosen to become the next administrator of Australia’s Northern Territory is not the sort to worry about causing offence. “I’ve been called …
Exclusive: David Connolly says he won’t publicly express political opinions after he was announced for a role similar to that of a state governor.
The Northern Territory’s incoming administrator levelled a series of insults at Anthony Albanese and claimed First Nations people were “the main group …
The Barrow Creek Hotel, where UK backpacker Peter Falconio was last seen alive, has lost its liquor licence, partly because the 76-year-old publican didn’t serve food.
“There’s-a nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear” – the patron saint of Australian country music, Slim Dusty, long deplored – “than…
Police say woman’s death in Tennant Creek appeared to be the result of a medical episode, but Aboriginal legal service says internal investigation is ‘not sufficient’.
The Northern Territory’s peak Aboriginal legal service has called for an independent investigation after a 44-year-old Aboriginal …
Warnings of extreme fire danger in SA regions, while Tropical Cyclone Hayley tracks towards WA.
Floods, fires and an approaching cyclone are threatening different parts of the Australia on Monday as severe weather continues into the final week of 2025. The flood situation across northern Queenslan…
Sydney can expect showers and a top of 23C, Melbourne a chilly 17C and Brisbane a balmy 34C.
Forecast rain is dampening the risk of bushfires on Christmas Day for most capital cities but parts of the nation will be on heatwave alert. Australia has been experiencing a “reasonably active” bushfire s…
The 79-year-old Vietnam war veteran and founding member of the Central Land Council ‘believed deeply in service’. Warning: This article contains images of and references to Indigenous Australians who have died One of Central Australia’s most highly respected Aboriginal leaders and Vietnam war vete…
Perth and Brisbane to swelter through hottest conditions of Australia’s capital cities on Thursday.
Wildly different weather is on the way across Australia for Christmas Day, as a clearer picture emerges of the forecast for celebrations on Thursday. The Bureau of Meteorology has tipped Perth, at 4…
Reality TV star jailed for trying to cover up evidence after the 2022 crash that killed co-star Chris ‘Willow’ Wilson.
The reality TV star Matt Wright has been given a 10-month jail sentence for attempting to pervert the course of justice after a fatal helicopter crash. The 47-year-old was sentenc…
Gavin Morris, a former NRL referee, found guilty of putting pupils in choke holds and twisting their ears.
A former NRL referee has been spared jail after abusing his position of trust as a school principal by putting Indigenous students into choke holds and painfully twisting their ears. Gavin Mo…
Separate independent investigation also found ‘serious issues’ with school’s governance, prompting redundancies which community says threaten the school’s viability .
One of Australia’s oldest independent Indigenous schools is in crisis after its former principal was found guilty of physically ass…
New South Wales south coast faces highest heatwave category, with extreme temperatures forecast elsewhere, including in Western Australia and the NT.
Communities across large parts of Australia have been urged to take precautions as temperatures begin to soar ahead of severe and extreme heatwave c…
A smartphone game is part of a push to save critically endangered Nyiyaparli in the Pilbara, while an NT radio station helps keep Yolŋu matha strong.
Preston Taylor is deep in the heart of the Pilbara’s largest wetland. The 12-year-old is on a mission to collect precious cultural items scattered a…
Lachlan Marchant was one of several mineworkers who saw a huge dust storm as it moved slowly across the landscape. He described fleeing to safety after a storm on Sunday before an even bigger one appeared on Monday. 'To see one the next day coming over the horizon, you’re like, "holy crap, this th…
Massive cloud over Tanami desert in Northern Territory reminiscent of Uluru, onlookers say.
Lachlan Marchant and his colleagues were driving their golf buggies back to their shed when they saw the earth sweeping towards them. “It reminded us of Uluru, the sheer size and width of this thing,” March…
Rental changes were introduced in Northern Territory without giving notice to tenants, which the court unanimously ruled was a denial of procedural fairness.
A public housing policy which saw tenants in the Northern Territory charged a flat rental rate based on the number of bedrooms in their home…
Destruction wrought by swine-borne disease is thinning the canopy of bunya pine forests and the problem is getting worse, experts say.
High up in an ancient conifer rainforest, at what was once the largest Indigenous gathering place in eastern Australia, there is sunlight where there shouldn’t be.…
Environment group warns of ‘major risk’ to groundwater, which supplies 90% of Northern Territory water supply.
A plan by fossil fuel company Santos to expand gas exploration in the Beetaloo basin has been criticised by environmentalists who fear it may mark the beginning of a fracking rush in the …
Criminal defence lawyer Asta Hill says she is putting human rights at the centre of her leadership – without shying away from addressing community safety.
When Asta Hill drives into Alice Springs after swimming in one of the waterholes that dot the red centre, she is still struck by the shades of …
Category 3 system the strongest cyclone to approach Darwin since Tracy in 1974, but no serious injuries reported by Sunday morning.
Top End residents are preparing to launch into cleanup mode after a night of damaging winds and heavy rain from Tropical Cyclone Fina. With top gusts of 195km/h and s…
Top End residents told to stay sheltered at home until authorities give the all-clear. Follow updates live.
Even though the worst of the storm has passed, authorities say residents should stay in their shelters until given the all clear. The bureau of meterology in its latest advice states: [The N…