Matt Garrick is a journalist and author at ABC Darwin.
Based in northern Australia since 2009, his focus is on issues affecting the Top End and Darwin, Central Australia and Northeast Arnhem Land.
His first book, Writing in the Sand, an authorised biography of NT band Yothu Yindi, was published by ABC Books in 2021.
Calls made by prominent public officials for the riot squad and a federal takeover of the Northern Territory are contained in a list of "sensitivities" about the Alice Springs youth curfew.
The homes in Bellamack were found to be riddled with defects such as water leaks and cracked tiles, making them unsafe during severe weather.
The NT opposition has criticised a government plan to direct unpaid truancy fines to be taken out of the Centrelink payments as a campaign of "fear and punishment" against parents and says the government doesn't have the jurisdiction to do it.
An exclusive, invite-only Qantas high-flyers club now includes more than half of the new NT government frontbench, with the politicians all receiving membership as gifts.
The PwC report found a "material uncertainty" about Landbridge's "ability to continue as a going concern" at the port.
A deal which would have brought more international flights to the Northern Territory has fallen through, with Darwin Airport blaming its ongoing major runway works.
Eight years after former concreter Richard Roe disappeared in a rural Northern Territory location, an inquest has ruled that he is deceased and may have died in remote bushland.
Sky-high airfares, poor flight times and unexpected scheduling changes have become standard in Darwin — and there are concerns prices may be about to climb even higher.
Truancy officers have begun patrols in the NT, trying to get children to school and issuing fines and compliance notices to families who fail to comply.
Nicole Manison's Territory Labor government recently signed a major gas contract with US-owned company Tamboran Resources, and she spruiked the firm when she was mining minister.
A 61-year-old has become the fourth woman killed in the NT's Big Rivers region in four months and the eighth person in the territory to die allegedly at the hands of a loved one since June.
Four foreign nationals who arrived on remote NT coastline have had an extraordinary conversation with some of their rescuers.
The Northern Land Council says the four men landed on Australia's northern coastline on Monday.
Tiwi Bombers are bouncing back from the brink, turning on electrifying performances in the NT Football League. A former Richmond Tiger is giving them a hand.
The Northern Land Council received more than $36 million in COVID-19 stimulus funding over a two year period – now questions are being raised about exactly where that went.
NT Treasury officials are warning big spends on health and community safety could see the territory's eye-watering debt levels continue to blow-out.
The return flight has been cited as "one of the largest logistical movements in a single day" ever undertaken by the Northern Territory's corrections department.
A brand new Northern Territory youth detention facility is about to open and accept detainees in Darwin in order to free up beds for adult prisoners at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.
Wild Croc Territory star Matt Wright fronted court in Darwin on Thursday alongside his wife, Kaia Wright, ahead of a highly-anticipated jury trial in 2025.
As the NT government brings tough new public drinking measures to parliament, an independent politician is warning Aboriginal people sleeping rough to consider leaving town centres.
The Northern and Anindilyakwa land councils have been raided by Australia's federal corruption watchdog, as the ALC's controversial boss is sacked from his role.
Against warnings from health, justice and Aboriginal groups, the NT government says it will fulfil its election promise and return the age of criminal responsibility back to 10 this year.
Labor bled votes to both the left and the right to lose the recent Northern Territory election in a hammering. Its new leader says the party will now review its policies.
Two independent politicians, one from Arnhem Land in the remote NT and another from the Darwin suburbs, will join forces on the territory's new crossbench.
Four of the CLP’s seats in the new Northern Territory government have been won by members of Darwin’s multicultural community, in a record for the NT parliament.