A Darwin mariner says he and his crew arrived just in time to rescue a bewildered bovine from the harbour.

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The discovery of an oil-like substance coating mangroves in the Northern Territory, less than 100km from the WA border, has intensified calls for the inquiry into the West Atlas oil rig disaster to have the powers of a royal commission.

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Police in Alice Springs say would-be robbers picked the wrong victim to accost at the weekend.

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The Northern Territory Ombudsman says two dogs in Alice Springs were destroyed by rangers without their owner's knowledge.

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A 33-year-old man has been charged after he crashed his car in the Northern Territory while drunk and engaging in "amorous activities" with a 34-year-old woman.

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A wildlife scientist says people relieving themselves on top of Uluru may have killed off a rare species of shrimp.

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Snake catchers in Alice Springs say venomous snakes are getting fatter and becoming more active.

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Police in Alice Springs say officers responded to an apparent violent disturbance only to find it was a couple having sex.

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There is renewed hope that the Northern Territory's famous, sex-starved male emu may be a step closer to finding satisfaction, thanks to an internet search and a chicken egg incubator.

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Northern Territory Police are waiting to question a man who injured himself by falling down a cliff after allegedly breaking into Darwin High School.

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A Gold Coast surveying team says it has confirmed suspicions that Queensland has claimed Northern Territory land.

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A couple who attracted the attention of police by having sex at a petrol station in a Northern Territory town have been arrested.

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A MAN allegedly offered police a dead fish when they pulled him over for drink driving in Darwin - but it wasn't enough to get him off the hook.

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The Northern Territory Government has apologised to a 14-year-old girl after she was evicted from her unit just days after her father died.

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Police are considering pressing charges against a Darwin teenager who concocted a complex abduction story to evade being caught clubbing by her mother.

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The United Nations says Australia is breaching its international human rights obligations by continuing the Northern Territory intervention.

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The UN Human Rights Committee has set out numerous violations of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Australia including race-based violations involving gross discrimination against Aborigines.

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A group of Aboriginal people has asked the United Nations to register them as refugees, saying the Northern Territory intervention has made them outcasts in their own country

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Police in Alice Springs fired a taser gun at a man who was waving a machete and screaming, "I want to chop people up" on a suburban street last night.

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Report: "One in four prisoners in Australia is Indigenous and their over-representation in the jail system is only getting worse " [Indigenous Australians or Aboriginals are only 5% of the Australian population]

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It is usually saltwater crocodiles that force the closure of popular swimming areas in the Northern Territory. But Darwin City Council has decided to close one in the Top End capital because of the danger posed by a large fish which recently bit a woman on the foot.

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A Northern Territory soldier has been recognised for an act of bravery after helping rescue two soldiers trapped in their submerged vehicle in a swollen crocodile-infested creek.

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Police in Alice Springs say an inflatable clown recently stolen from the Moscow Circus has been found.

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A used car that had just been purchased for $8,000 burst into flames at a petrol station in Darwin yesterday, police say.

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The Arnhem Highway had to be temporarily closed overnight after a truck hit a buffalo and spilled a load of cucumbers near a popular Northern Territory tourist site.

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