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NT Government The Territory Government has provided $1.3 million in funding to recipients of the 2021 Safe, Respected and Free from Violence Prevention Grants. The Safe, Respected and Free from Violence Prevention Grants are provided to support localised projects, activities, actions and pilot programs that seek to challenge and change social and cultural attitudes, values and structures that underpin domestic, family and sexual violence. Each year, individual grants of up to $150,000 are available to organisations aiming to contribute towards the development and implementation of good practi...

Free daycare demand for jobless families Kids miss out on daycare when parents can’t pay the $14-per-day ‘gap fee’, child advocates warn Parenting by NATASHA BITA Premium Content Exclusive: Childcare experts are demanding free daycare for kids with parents on the dole. Early Childhood Australia chief executive Samantha Page said all children should be able to attend childcare at least two days a week - even if their parents are out of work or too poor to pay a gap fee. Shonna-Lee Johnson and Christiana Rory building models at Indi Kindi. Pictu...

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How a town Tony Abbott described as having the worst housing in Australia is changing the game We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Very large text size Under a tree in Borroloola, a remote Aboriginal community about 10 hours drive from Darwin where less than half of all children attend school most days, local Garrawa woman Deandra McDinny helps toddlers with jigsaw puzzles. After delighting in how far they can throw their sunhats in the tree, the children eat a lunch of stir-fried beef and brown rice before singing a local ver...

Share on Twitter A delegation of Northern Territory Traditional Owners will likely testify before a federal inquiry into a massive lead and zinc mine's impacts on Aboriginal sacred sites. Glencore's McArthur River Mine - about 750km southeast of Darwin - has been dogged by environmental incidents and alleged damage to cultural sites. Committee members from the Juukan Gorge inquiry into the destruction of 46,000-year-old caves in Western Australia have travelled to tiny Borroloola, about 60km from the mine, for informal talks with concerned native title holders. "I was a bit worrie...