Alcohol a road killer

To spend tens of millions of dollars on upgrades is necessary to overcome the growing number of black spots on our highways and connecting roads. However, that will do nothing to overcome the deaths and injuries to drivers, passengers and pedestrians, while alcohol is a primary contributor to well over half the deaths on our roads.

Sandalwood Farms sold

This story again brings a sparkle of renewed hope to mind. Economic progressiveness has many facets, not the least of which are in the agricultural and horticultural fields. May 2025 be a year during which, with its new and pragmatic government, the NT continues to revive after what had become a long period of stagnation.

Henry is weeping

Henry is weeping—at the new format and because of his disappointment—but nobody cares. Henry also wept when excellent cartoonist Colin Wicking’s last cartoon appeared in the NT News on March 31, 2022, and he was never replaced. This made the NT News the only Australian paper in the Murdoch Stable not to have a cartoonist sharing the lighter side of news with readers.