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Severe Tropical Cyclone Trevor zeroes in on NT | Sky News AustraliaTropical Cyclone Trevor is regaining momentum and is expected to hit the Northern Territory as a category 4 on Saturday after leaving a trail of destruction through far north Queensland.\n\nThe tail of the storm is expected to bring flooding rains to parts of the Top End and possibly south-west Queensland.\n\nIt comes as Cyclone Veronica closes in on the country's west coast, likely to escalate to a category 4 as it nears the Pilbara coast over the weekend.\n\nAuthorities are warning residents to prepare an emergency kit as the storm draws nearer.\n\nImage: NASA Worldview\n\n\n\n SKY is anti climate change so they air brushed some of the clouds out lol.
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Mass evacuations for NT coastal communities as Cyclone Trevor approachesCommunities from Groote Eylandt down the Gulf of Carpentaria are told to evacuate as Tropical Cyclone Trevor looks to turn into a category four system.
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Troubled NT Labor Government loses another MP | Sky News AustraliaThe troubled Northern Territory Labor Government has been thrown deeper into crisis with another MP announcing she won’t be recontesting the next election. \n\nMember for Katherine, Sandra Nelson won't run at next year’s election after it was revealed she was among a group of MPs who had criticised the government’s handling of the economy in a private Facebook group. \n\nIt follows the sacking of three other MLAs just before Christmas after they spoke out about the performance of Chief Minister Michael Gunner.\n\n\n\n Those comparing the Federal government to a sinking ship should cast their gaze to the totally dysfunctional mob in the NT. Receivers are way overdue.
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NT govt to stop delivering housing services to remote communities | Sky News AustraliaThe Northern Territory Chief Minister says his Government will stop delivering housing services in 44 remote communities at the end of June amid a major funding stoush.\n\nMichael Gunner has written to the four Aboriginal land councils telling them to deal directly with the Federal Government for the release of housing funding.\n\nThe councils have recently sided with the Commonwealth in talks over a new billion dollar deal.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ClrLindaScott Simply stop immigration for two years of your Leftwing numbers and problems solved ClrLindaScott Daley commits to whatever pleases the virtue signalling leftie progressives. Doesn’t mean he’s gonna deliver. ClrLindaScott The answer is actually to relocate to somewhere a bit more pleasant than NSW
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High Court orders NT govt to pay $2.5 million to native title holders | Sky News AustraliaThe High Court has ordered the Northern Territory government to pay 2.5 million dollars compensation to a group of native title holders in what's being described as the biggest land rights decision since Mabo.\n\nThe sum was awarded over dozens of acts by the NT government between 1980 and 1996 which were found to have 'impaired or extinguished' native title rights.\n\nThe payment to claimants acting for the Ngaliwurru and Nungali people from Timber Creek includes money for economic loss, cultural loss and interest payments.\n\n ScottMorrisonMP welcome to our (voters) world! ScottMorrisonMP You cannot trust a liberals word...... You are just catching on now? Wow, welcome to what the rest of Australia learnt in the first 6 months of the coalition government
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Govt is a bad debtor when it comes to NT housing: Gunner | Sky News AustraliaNT Chief Minister Michael Gunner has accused the federal Coalition of being a ‘bad debtor’ when it comes to indigenous housing in the top end.\n\nThis week the Gunner government handed over the leases to 44 remote communities due to a bitter stoush over funding.\n\nThe NT government has accused the Coalition of failing to hold up its end of the $1.1 billion, five-year deal to co-fund the remote indigenous housing program signed by both parties nine months ago.\n\nIndigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion has written to the NT government, urging it to come back to the negotiating table.\n\nMr Gunner has told Sky News the federal government is ‘doing nothing’ to help build houses for those people in remote NT communities.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia The liberals treat the states and people in need as a last thought not priority .. for the federal government to hold back spending they are committed to do that their budget position looks better for the election shows how low they will go to try and hold onto power.
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NT govt backflips on youth detention restraint ban | Sky News AustraliaThe Northern Territory government has moved to revert legislation that banned the use of restraints in juvenile detention centres.\n\nThe ban was implemented in the wake of the royal commission into youth detention, sparked in part after images emerged of detainee Dylan Voller in a spit hood and restraint chair.\n\nThe Minister for Territory Families Dale Wakefield says the decision to ban restraints had been revised following concerns about staff safety.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n
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Youth justice advocates say procedures 'akin to torture' could be legalised in NT this weekChanges to youth justice laws being pushed through NT Parliament this week are labelled a blatant arse-covering attempt by advocates who say it will allow procedures akin to torture to be used against detainees. Disregard anything these so called youth justice advocates say... they'd have all those crooks released if they could Its a youth detention centre, they are dressed in near full military gear, and worried about the extent of their powers?! Whats happening in NT that requires this much force, compared to the rest of the country's corrections facilities
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Backbenchers' secret Facebook messages expose NT Labor divisionsTwo Northern Territory Labor backbenchers ridicule their own Government's economic management and criticise the spin used to sell the Gunner Government's fiscal strategies in a series of damaging private messages leaked to ABC. HAH! .... secret This can't be true as Shorten said the labor mor are all working together - These guys must have lost their 'how to lie' book.
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Independent MLAs call for royal commission before there is 'no road back' for the NTThe Northern Territory can no longer manage its own economic affairs and needs to be investigated by a royal commission, the Territory's Parliament hears. Why? NT government is flat broke. Call in the receivers. Then move on AnnastaciaMP government.
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