Northern Territory
8 US Marines remain in hospital after fiery aircraft crash killed 3 in Australia
Eight U.S. Marines remained in a hospital in the Australian north coast city of Darwin on Monday after they were injured in a fiery crash of a tiltrotor aircraft that killed three of their colleagues on an island.
Australian army forcibly removing Covid-19 infected residents to quarantine camps
Northern Territory chief minister Michael Gunner said more will be taken to camps
Australia's Northern Territory To Be Closed to Visitors For a Further 18 Months
Australia's Northern Territory will be closed to visitors from virus hotspots for a further 18 months to protect its large and vulnerable Aboriginal population, authorities said Tuesday.
The sparsely populated northern region is home to roughly 250,000 people -- 30 per cent of whom are Aboriginal -- according to government figures.
Australia will Ban Climbing of the Uluru Sandstone Rock Formation
Climbing the Uluru rock formation, a popular tourist attraction in Australia, will be banned in 2019 because of its spiritual significance for a local Aboriginal community, DPA reported.
The ban will come into force on 29 October 2019. On that date in 1985 the land and the rock were returned to their traditional owners.