"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable." This quote was attributed to Mahatma Ghandi. The annual Closing the Gap Report on Indigenous disadvantage tabled in the Australian Parliament paints a dimmer picture year after year. We are going backwards. The results are shameful. COMMENT by BOB BEADMAN.

The NT Government is providing a $10m loan to an interstate company for a walk in the Uluru National Park while other publicly funded tourism related projects in The Centre are on hold or merely planned. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.

Are they pedestrian crossings or not? They're ugly and dangerous. The shed at the Telegraph Station is just ugly.

Pine Gap is far too distant from Iran to be threatened by reprisals it has announced in response to America’s attack on three nuclear facilities. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.

Justice not Jails condemns the CLP government’s plans to make Transit Safety and Public Housing Safety Officers into fully armed members of the police force.

Territory elections are fought on law-and-order policies but none of them have made a lot of difference to the agony crime is causing. This report looks at the financial consequences, and raises the question of how the millions spent on dealing with a crime that took just a minute or two could be applied to the community's greater advantage. By ERWIN CHLANDA.

Is pepper spray just the beginning, asks Frank Baarda in his column.

Why "musical"? Because the cheeky column is always linked to a song.

Why "front"? Because it's the line to which the settlers' colonial enterprise advanced.

A large number of people from Lajamanu and from Yuendumu, the home town of Kumanjayi White who died in custody on May 27, came to Alice Springs to attend a vigil, to march and mourn. By ERWIN CHLANDA.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Talk tough on crime, abandon those who fight it. That's the message NT Police are hearing loud and clear from the CLP Government following its latest shameful pay offer to officers – proving their promises were nothing more than political spin, writes Nathan Finn, NT Police Association president.

West Australian brothers Travis and Beau Robinson starred in the Tatts Finke Desert Race.

Travis (pictured) claimed his first car King of the Desert crown after finishing with the fastest overall time on Race Day Two, ahead of his brother, the reigning champion.

Corey Hammond from NSW won in the bikes.