Darwin, Australia News

Away from the Canberra spotlight, the Palmer United Party has made an audacious play for power in the NT.

The government wants to dam northern rivers to create a giant food bowl - but no one knows how it will effect the environment or Indigenous people AUSTRALIA has a daring plan: to convert its tropical north into a huge "food bowl".

Scientists have used DNA evidence from a lock of hair found in WA in the 1920s to map the early migration of humans from Africa to Australia.

He's one of Australia's wealthiest citizens with a rags-to-riches tale, but most people would never have heard of billionaire Hui Wing Mau.

Northern Territory Senator Nova Peris says she has been dealing with racist hate mail on a daily basis since she spoke out against comments from Prime Minister Tony Abbott regarding the settlement of Australia.

The freshman from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, South Dakota, began his 29,000 mile journey in California on June 1. American student Matt Guthmiller began his six-week quest on June 1 and landed in Darwin - Australia's Northern Territory - this week He is now halfway through his six week long aerial odyssey, having landed in Darwin - in ... (more)

THE City of Kabankalan will celebrate its 9th Udyakan Festival starting August 2, in time for the celebration of its 17th Charter Anniversary.

On April 16, 1896, a chartered steamer, the Croydon , embarked from Brisbane in Queensland on an American scientific investigation of the Great Barrier Reef - the beginning of an epic series of Pacific-Indian Ocean expeditions led by a 61-year-old American zoologist and mining millionaire, Alexander Agassiz.

Stabicraft Marine managing director Paul Adams, in the company's Invercargill factory, as boat fabrication team leader Ken Stenton works on a vessel for an Australian client.

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British-Australian author Evie Wyld has taken out Australia's most prestigious literary prize ahead of male heavyweight favourites Tim Winton and Richard Flanagan for her novel All the Birds, Singing.

THE hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is moving to a new area south of where an intensive effort failed to find a trace.

THINK beauty queens are bimbos? The husband of a reigning Australian pageant queen says they are way more than blonde girls prancing around in bikinis.

The chronometer will be offered in the Fine Clocks sale at New Bond Street, London, on July 9 with an estimate of A 30,000A-50,000.

The United States said it has suspended more assistance to Thailand in response to a military coup and was considering moving a major regional exercise out of the kingdom.

From the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia ; Preventable Chronic Disease Division and Global Health Division , Menzies School of Health Research, and School of Psychology and Clinical Science , Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern ... (more)

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U.S. Navy sailors man the rails aboard the U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge as it pulls into port in Darwin, Australia, in June 2013 on a mission to build maritime partnerships and conduct security operations.

Serious cracks have emerged in Australian LNG's appetite for greenfield projects after Santos and French partner GDF Suez baulked at pushing ahead with the Bonaparte floating LNG development in the Timor Sea.

Shares are poised to take a breath early after yesterday's gains, as gold surged the most in nine months overnight and oil rises on conflict in Iraq.