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Australia is collectively sweating through an unusually muggy start to summer.

A man who covered up an Indigenous woman's hit-and-run death on a Darwin highway has had his sentence reduced on appeal, with the NT Court of Criminal Appeal finding the sentence was manifestly excessive.

According to data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, patients are waiting longer in public emergency departments to see a doctor. 

Police say two children under the age of 10 are believed to have broken into the reptile park, killing two turtles and injuring four others.

The homes in Bellamack were found to be riddled with defects such as water leaks and cracked tiles, making them unsafe during severe weather.

NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy flies into the remote community of Milikapiti on Melville Island after three officers were attacked during an arrest, leaving one unconscious.

A leaked review into St John Ambulance NT has revealed "serious" concerns about clinical governance within the private service, finding some processes may have led to patient deaths and "significant risk" to staff.

Driving in later life can bring its own challenges, and while rules around older road users vary widely across the country, options for navigating those challenges include licence assessments and conversations around so-called "driving retirement". 

Another heatwave is predicted across Australia this week, as the weather bureau confirms the nation just sizzled through its hottest spring on record.

On Christmas Eve 1974, Theresa Roe hid in a hallway cupboard and said prayers all night while Cyclone Tracy tore her home apart around her. She was one of several thousand people who attended a 50th anniversary commemoration event over the weekend. 

Award-winning actor, educator and community leader Mawuyul Yanthalawuy, who starred in the film Manganinnie, is being remembered as a "national treasure" after her death at the age of 85.

The Northern Territory coroner has adjourned an inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker for the final time before delivering her findings and recommendations. 

Every day of the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, a sign reading "tell the truth" has stood outside the Alice Springs Local Court. Now, with final submissions heard, the NT coroner faces the task of finding that truth.

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 Northern Territory's Legal Aid Commission has been handed an almost $4 million funding boost, which will prevent looming service cuts that threatened to bring the territory's strapped justice system to its knees.

Lawyers for the NT Police Force have described one of their former officers as an alleged "racist", "misogynist" and "narcissist, with grandiose ideas about his own abilities", at the inquest into the fatal police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker.

The PwC report found a "material uncertainty" about Landbridge's "ability to continue as a going concern" at the port.

Indigenous residents in West Arnhem Land have found eight suspected asylum seekers on the remote Cobourg Peninsula. It comes after a string of discoveries of foreign vessels in the area.

The NT coroner has announced a second inquiry into domestic violence, before the government has even committed to the recommendations in the first. So what's next in the fight to end the crisis?