Darwin, Australia News

IT WAS a seemingly routine day in a thriving Arnhem Land township located on a bay facing the sparkling Arafura Sea.

The extremely thorough report of the expert panel examining options to recognise Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in the Australian constitution lays out an important project of constitutional modernisation.

He says he is not upset that a Western Australian company has won a $140 million contract for the Inpex processing facility in Darwin.

As Branch Rickey famously put it, "Luck is the residue of design." In The Battle of Midway , Craig Symonds, who teaches American Naval History at the U.S. Naval Academy, shows how that resounding American victory during World War II was the product of design and its residue, which historians might call contingency.

Engineering and construction company Clough has won a $140 million contract for work on Inpex's $US34 billion Ichthys liquefied natural gas project.

THE success of the Australian Agricultural Company's profitability climb in the next two years could be heavily dependent on government support for its new high-tech meatworks in Darwin.

Andrew McMillan's best-known work was An Intruder's Guide to East Arnhem Land, 2001.

The SolarWorld GT has been on a world tour, and it finally reached the North American leg of its excursion, hitting the sparkling streets of the US just yesterday!A The solar car was sent off on its cross-country jaunt at theA Half Moon Bay in California with a plan to head east to meet Florida in 49 days.

We're travelling "Digger class", World War II-style, on the original Ghan train as it huffs and puffs through the Flinders Ranges to Quorn.

U.S. President Barack Obama's November visit to Bali, Indonesia, in November 2011 to attend the 19th Association of Southeast Asian Nations and East Asia Summits was his second official visit to Indonesia in his role as president.

COPPER levels in Edith River have fallen below national trigger levels after exceeding them last year following a mining train derailment, but authorities are remaining vigilant.

At first glance there was not any connection between U.S. President Barack Obama's stated intention last November to establish a permanent, rotating presence of 2,500 Marines near this tropical city and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's shock announcement Wednesday that U.S. combat forces expect to quit Afghanistan early beginning next summer ... (more)

DARWIN, Australia - A dirty diaper stuck in a toilet is being blamed for grounding a passenger plane flying between the Australian capital cities of Darwin and Brisbane.

The SolarWorld GT solar-powered car is currently on a drive around the world, and embarks in the U.S. leg of its trip later this week Last October, the SolarWorld GT solar-powered car set out from Darwin, Australia on a drive around the world.

A Northern Territory minister with special responsibility for young people has labelled the Aboriginal children who burned an Australian flag in Canberra last week "little pricks". The flag was burned at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Friday, one day after protesters from the embassy confronted Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia ... (more)

GE Oil & Gas has received contracts totaling more than $1 billion to supply a wide range of equipment and services for the Ichthys liquefied natural gas project in Australia.

Northern Territory writer, journalist and musical satirist Andrew McMillan has died at the age of 54 after a long illness.

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Cyclone Iggy on January 26 at 611 UTC the AIRS instrument measured the cloud top temperatures.

WILD weather with predicted wind gusts equivalent to a category 1 cyclone are curtailing the Northern Territory's Australia Day celebrations.

WILD weather with predicted wind gusts equivalent to a category 1 cyclone are curtailing the Northern Territory's Australia Day celebrations.