Northern Territory

Jun 2023

Government approaches that frame young street-walkers as ‘anti-social’ individuals who have followed the wrong ‘path’ are inherently divisive.

Fracked Futures

Arena Quarterly no. 8

Kirsty Howey

Dec 2021

If production proceeds in the Beetaloo Basin, it will unleash a carbon bomb of huge proportions, and expose the Northern Territory’s environment and people to numerous other risks associated with fracking, including contamination of groundwater supplies, which make up 90 per cent of the Territory’s consumptive water use.

Relational Medicine

Arena Quarterly no. 8

Lisa Stefanoff

Dec 2021

Re-mediating the oldest intimate communication practices—a message from a caring friend or relation—is helping to counter diabolically antisocial influences.

The Decline and Fall of the NT Legal System

Arena Online

John B. Lawrence SC

31 Aug 2021

The malaise that besets the NT legal system is symptomatic of Australia’s fall from grace as a country.

NT Laws reproduce carceral politics governing Aboriginal children

Arena Online

Thalia Anthony, Eddie Cubillo

8 Apr 2021

It is a blight on our nation that we continue to lock up Aboriginal children when we should be keeping them on Country.

‘The Aboriginal Gulag’: The Northern Territory’s Criminal Legal System

Arena Online

John B. Lawrence SC

22 Oct 2020

It is no longer an overworked, under-resourced and at times chaotic legal system. It is now not fit for purpose and has become a depraved jailing machine consuming Aboriginal men, women and children at an ever-increasing rate.

What the victory of Territory Labor means for Aboriginal children and youth justice

Arena Online

Thalia Anthony

10 Sep 2020

This commitment to law and order in a society that has deep roots in discriminatory justice practices—overtly legitimated under the NT Intervention in 2007—signals another four years of the state’s punitive management of Aboriginal children.

Whatever It Takes: The politics of Indigenous vulnerability and extracted futures in northern Australia

Arena Quarterly no. 3

Lisa Stefanoff

Sep 2020

Blink and you’ll miss the Northern Territory on national COVID-19 graphs. Almost 34,000 tests have been conducted here since March. All 34 positively diagnosed people, mostly returned travellers, have recovered. No community transmission, no deaths.

Three Shots

Arena Magazine no. 163

Melinda Hinkson, Thalia Anthony

Dec 2019

The death of Kumanjayi Walker—the Northern Territory as police state

"Do we really want to continue replicating southern models of settler-colonial capitalism when the catastrophic…

The Problem Child of Empire

Arena Magazine no. 158

Shannyn Palmer

Feb 2019

Do we really want to continue replicating southern models of settler-colonial capitalism when the catastrophic environmental consequences of that logic, especially extractivism, are impressing themselves on us daily?

"A new report shows how Intervention measures are criminalising Indigenous drivers By Maggie Knight