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Thursday | Australian Broadcasting Corporation

6 white wallabies

There are so many stories about Father Christmas and his reindeers. But in Australia there's a legend about what happens when Santa strikes the terrible summer heat.

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Tue Dec 22, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Pair stabbed to death in NT outback

Police received a report about the deaths late last night. Map: Alice Springs 0870 Two men are believed to have been stabbed to death in a remote Central Australian community, Northern Territory Police say.

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Mon Dec 21, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Related Story: Flood threat advice issued for Alice region

Inclement weather associated with Cyclone Laurence could see the Todd River in Alice Springs flow for the first time in almost a year.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Flood, Hurricane, Australia, World News, Meteorology, Science

Sun Dec 20, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Toilet desecrated sacred site, court hears

A construction company that allegedly built a toilet on Aboriginal land while working on the Northern Territory Emergency Response is expected to plead guilty to charges of desecrating a sacred site.

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Fri Dec 18, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Desert offers climate change lessons

The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre in Alice Springs says city dwellers have a lot to learn from central Australian residents about coping with climate change.

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Wed Dec 16, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Ku Klux Klan fears raised at murder hearing

An Aboriginal woman has told a murder committal hearing in Alice Springs that she thought a car that came towards her camp in the dry Todd River bed might be the Ku Klux Klan.

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Tue Dec 15, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Camel cull debate

It is a powerful image: a photo of a camel trying to open a door with its mouth.

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Sun Dec 13, 2009

Earth Times

Guns blaze at the camels besieging remote Australian town

Sharpshooters are midway through a cull of the thirsty camels that took over Docker River in far-north Australia, Northern Territory officials said Saturday.

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Sat Dec 12, 2009

Reuters

Australian Aboriginal film wins top honors at home

Australian movie "Samson and Delilah," about the plight of many Aboriginal communities, won the country's top film award Saturday, another major prize this year after it scored honors at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Fri Dec 11, 2009

The West Australian

NT police happy with low arrest tally

A "few clowns" caught the attention of Northern Territory police during the nationwide blitz on alcohol-related violence, but acting deputy commissioner Grahame Kelly was pleased with the low number of offences.

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Thu Dec 10, 2009

BBC News

Aborigines get back sacred land

The government of Australia's Northern Territory has handed back sacred land to a local Aborigine tribe.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Sex diseases affecting young children

Six cases of children under the age of 10 with sexually transmitted diseases were reported in the first six months of 2009.

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Mon Dec 07, 2009

The Courier Mail

Prison gangs begin town cleanup

PRISON gangs have started cleaning up the Alice Springs town camps, with Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin saying the work will benefit the elderly, women and children.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Town camps to be cleaned up

There has been a long running dispute about tenure over town camps Map: Alice Springs 0870 Clean-up work in Alice Springs Aboriginal town camps is set to begin today as part of a $100 million deal to overhaul them.

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Sun Dec 06, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Camel cull to proceed in central Australia

A camel at Docker River tries to open a door with its mouth. Map: Alice Springs 0870 Local government authorities in central Australia say a cull of thousands of feral camels this week will be humane.

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Sat Dec 05, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Raiders of the Lost Art

An eight times world record holder in whip cracking says it was Indiana Jones who inspired him to pursue a career as a whip cracker.

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Thu Dec 03, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

Rotting camels poison Aussie waterways: report

A feral camel searches for food near the dry Ross River 85 kms west of Alice Springs.

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Wed Dec 02, 2009

Manawatu Evening Standard

Britons boycott Australia over camel cull

UK residents outraged by plans to cull some 6000 camels are warning other Europeans against visiting Australia.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Controversial by-laws passed by Alice council

The laws contain provisions against public nuisance offences like begging, drinking alcohol and illegal camping in Alice Springs.

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Mon Nov 30, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal children play an outstation in the Utopia community near Alice Springs. [File image].

A former government business manager says Aboriginal people in parts of Central Australia are still living in car bodies and humpies.

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