Alice Springs journalist Alex Barwick wins the top gong at the New York Festivals Radio Awards with a podcast about Pine Gap.

Frontline Territory health care workers with more than 1000 combined years of experience in serving NT communities have today written to the Chief Minister calling for urgent changes to the Territory's criminal legal system.

The town council has identified 10 parks, mostly small ones, for possible “divestment” (red dots on the map). ERWIN CHLANDA reports.

Note update May 29, 2025.

Local police intelligence personnel track known regional grievances, according to a spokesman, replying to questions from the Alice Springs News whether initiatives are in place to prevent criminal payback after alleged events such as last Thursday’s in Gregory Terrace. ERWIN CHLANDA reports.

The Town Council needs a rigorous, independent review to restore democratic representation, transparency and sanity.

The Council's wanton destruction of the iconic Undoolya Road and Lindsay Avenue roundabout planted with Sturt Desert Peas is final proof, if more was needed, that it lacks all three. Letter to the Editor.

Note update May 29, 2025.

The NT now has, by far, the highest debt per-capita of any jurisdiction in Australia. The NT will be paying interest of more than $2m a day by 2026-27. This will impact severely on basic services in crime and justice, health, education and community services, for example. Clearly the Finocchiaro government is committed to high level expenditure and unsustainable debt. Some commentators now predict Federal intervention is just a matter of time. More than 70% of NT revenue is coming from the rest of Australia. The NT increasingly resembles a failed African or Southern American state. COMMENT by Dr DON FULLER.

With less than a month until Finke, the Janda Carpenters & Builders Brekky Bash was the last opportunity for local and interstate club members to test and tune their race cars for the Big One. By PADDY WEIR.

Wati Mai brings starving people food, feeds homeless people, gives them magic water. Spider Girl Kungka helps kids stay safe. Comes out at night. Throws webs. Scares kids to go home and makes them go to sleep ready for school. The latest animated movie from Hollywood? By ERWIN CHLANDA.

A prominent Aboriginal spokesman gave an account of a chaotic and meaningless process deciding how Prime Minister Albanese’s $250m Alice Springs “rescue package” is being spent.

The money, allocated two years ago, was “drastically needed” according to Graeme Smith, at the time the CEO of the local native title organisation Lhere Artepe. He spoke with ERWIN CHLANDA.

By ERWIN CHLANDA

Re-elected Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour is calling for a “complete break-down” of spending under the two-year-old $250m Albanese rescue package for Alice Springs and Central Australia.