Tag: Daly River 0822
Man hit and killed on remote NT road
Northern Territory police say there has been another road fatality overnight.[MORE]
Controversial stations go on sale
The vendor for one of the nation's largest pastoral property sales says it is guaranteed to set a new national property value benchmark.[MORE]
Daly River uranium mine 'possible within three years'
An exploration company says it's excited about results showing possible uranium deposits in the Daly River region.[MORE]
Top End river monitoring 'to protect them from agriculture'
Preparations are being made for a program to monitor the water quality of the Katherine and Daly River catchment areas.[MORE]
Burns to assess report on Daly River death
Northern Territory Health Minister Chris Burns says he will consider the coronial findings into the death of an Indigenous man who had been just been released from police custody.[MORE]
Territorians can't be bought for a beer: Henderson
The Chief Minister says he does not have any problems with candidates shouting drinks during the election campaign providing they pay for it out of their own pocket.[MORE]
Cattle industry tells Govt `we cant eat timber'
Northern Territory pastoralists have attacked the Territory Government's policy for the Daly River region, south west of Darwin.[MORE]
Indigenous rangers score small victory against big headed pest
A Northern Territory CSIRO scientist says Indigenous rangers have been instrumental in eradicating a pest ant species from an area around the Daly River.[MORE]
Health worker 'didn't ask man's medical history'
An Aboriginal health worker who examined a man at the Daly River police station the night before he died has told a coronial inquest that the unfriendliness of police stopped him getting all the information he needed.[MORE]
Pastoralists have had a gutful of bellyache bush
A Northern Territory landcare group is taking to the air in a bid to map the alarming spread of the noxious weed bellyache bush.[MORE]
Tourism operators fear cancellations due to Merrepen concert
Organisers of an Indigenous arts festival and tourism businesses in the Top End's Daly region are at odds over a plan to close a major road while a concert takes place. [MORE]
Fishos preparing for Barra Classic
This year's Barra Classic fishing competition has attracted a wide range of anglers hoping to be crowned the 2008 Barra Champion.[MORE]
Federal minister won't enter Daly clearing debate
The Federal Minister for Agriculture says the Commonwealth will not intervene in the argument over land clearing in the Northern Territory.[MORE]
Labor broke promise to protect Top End rivers: WWF
Environmentalists are urging the Territory Government to honour an election promise to protect pristine rivers.[MORE]
Cattlemen abandon Daly advisory group
The Territory's Cattleman's Association has stepped off a government advisory committee set up to discuss land clearing in the Daly River region. [MORE]
No housing, power for new town of Fleming
The Government says it does not plan to release land for housing or provide power to the the Territory's newest town.[MORE]
Daly River MP may get cold shoulder
A remote Daly River community is warning their local member Rob Knight to expect a frosty reception when he visits later this year.[MORE]
Government criticised over rural development, spending
Farmers in the Douglas Daly say they fear the region's new townsite may fail to materialise if the Territory Government moratorium over clearing is not lifted.[MORE]
Govt denies too much land clearing going on
Conservationists say recent approvals to clear thousands of hectares in the Daly catchment are an indictment on the Territory Government's pledge to halt clearing and protect the iconic region.[MORE]
Daly moratorium pushing up land prices
Land valuers say the Northern Territory Government's extension of a land clearing ban is continuing to spur record property values.[MORE]
Sorry is good enough: Cubillo
A member of the Stolen Generation who launched the first unsuccessful compensation case against the Commonwealth 12 years ago has welcomed the Government's plan to say sorry.[MORE]
Govt sticks by Daly land clearing moratorium
A cattle station owner in the Douglas Daly region has applied to clear part of his land to run more cattle, in defiance of a moratorium on land clearing in the area. [MORE]
Questions asked over response to man injured during cyclone
The operator of the Douglas Daly Tourist Park Jim Taylor says he had difficulty getting medical help on the weekend for a man with a dislocated shoulder.[MORE]
Top End residents brace for flooding, winds
Darwin's Bureau of Meteorology predicts Cyclone Helen will intensify as it moves closer to the west coast of the Northern Territory.[MORE]
Top End on alert as cyclone forms
Northern Territory police say Darwin's Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre has named a low pressure system in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf Cyclone Helen.[MORE]
