'Girl who screams most nights': NT hearings address child protection system
Diphtheria outbreak: residents of remote NT community say health clinic has no hand sanitiser
By Douglas Smith Indigenous affairs reporter
There’s a three-week wait on test results in Yuendumu, near Alice Springs, and locals say NT Health has dropped the ball on telling locals what to do if they test positive
#IndigenousAustralians #Health #Australianews #NorthernTerritory #DouglasSmithIndigenousaffairsreporter
Finally - after 10 long years - I am back. Back in the Outback 🦘 🇦🇺
Standing on red earth with a huge sky above.
Got the opportunity and grabed it, fighting for as much time as possible. And it is sooo cool to know that this is just the beginning! 😍
Santos could drill for new gas in Beetaloo basin within weeks as Murray Watt urged to ‘do his job’
By Lisa Cox
Environment Centre of the Northern Territory warns it could be ‘gateway to full-scale fracking in the territory’
#Santos #NorthernTerritory #Environment #Australianews #Fossilfuels #LisaCox
#Australia - #KatherineNT residents say potential damages from #PFAS firefighting foam case should pay for further 'recompense'
by James Elton, 1 June, 2026
Excerpt: "PFASContamination in Katherine was first announced by Defence in 2016 — the result of decades of use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam at #Tindal, which sits above a large and interconnected #aquifer.
"In the immediate aftermath, Katherine's town pool was closed and Defence trucked in bottled water.
"Commonwealth to sue the manufacturer of a firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals that contaminated 28 #DefenceForce bases across Australia.
"A class action, settled in 2020, resulted in Defence paying $92.5 million to Katherine home owners and businesses to compensate for lost property value, as part of a broader class action that also included Williamtown in NSW and Oakey in Queensland.
"Today, Katherine's town drinking water supply is thoroughly treated using a specialised plant to keep PFAS levels below minimum thresholds.
"But residents with bores in the contamination zone are still advised not to drink their groundwater or eat eggs from chickens that drink water from the bores.
"A 2018 health assessment commissioned by Defence also found there was an 'elevated risk' for anyone who ate fish caught in the #KatherineRiver on a regular basis, defined as one fish per week.
"A Senate inquiry into the issue last year heard evidence that assessment had affected #Aboriginal people in the region, who had historically eaten large quantities and varieties of fish and crustaceans from the river."
#3MKnew #ForeverChemicals #PFAS #FirefightingFoam #FirstNations #KatherineNT #IndigenousAustralians #NorthernTerritory #WilliamtownNSW #OakeyQueensland #WaterIsLife #AusPol #TraditionalDiets #TraditionalFoodSources
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