“Time is running out for remote communities to be considered for mobile phone Black Spot Funding.” Warren Snowdon, Member for Lingiari said today. Mr Snowdon was responding to the Morrison Government announcement of its final round for the program which has no funding beyond this year. Only a small number of Territory communities have benefitted

Labor welcomes reports that the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) will support the expansion of Northern Territory Airports in Darwin, Tennant Creek and Alice Springs. The NT is on the doorstep of the world’s fastest growing middle class in Asia. By 2030, there will be three billion middle class consumers just to our north. We

The Member for Lingiari, Warren Snowdon MP, welcomes the partnership between the Territory Labor Government  and the Vocus Group that will provide Tiwi Islanders with reliable, future-proofed and weather-resistant telecommunications infrastructure for the first time. The project will invest $8.5 million to establish a 46km undersea optic fibre cable to the Islands to provide better

Six thousand one hundred and twenty eight  homes in the LINGIARI electorate will be slugged $240 extra a year to receive the same internet service as households in a metro area, under a new NBN pricing plan revealed in Federal Parliament overnight.   Before a Joint Standing Committee into the National Broadband Network, NBNCo admitted

Federal Labor welcomes the report released today, ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations and descendants: numbers, demographic characteristics and selected outcomes’. Collated by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), in partnership with The Healing Foundation, the report details the direct link between forced removal and the real-life symptoms of intergenerational trauma, which

Forty years on from self-government for the Northern Territory, we still do not have full self-government, full states rights. This is a current issue, which has come to public attention in relation to our power to make laws relating to assisted dying, or euthanasia. The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 (NT) was passed

Expressions of interest are now open for the 2018 Stronger Communities Programme.   The programme provides grants of between $2,500 and $20,000 for small capital projects that improve community participation and contribute to vibrant and viable communities. There is a total of $150,000 available to Lingiari to fund a maximum of 20 projects. Local government

On International Day of World Indigenous Peoples, Labor stands with First Nations people in recognising their unique status as the First People of this nation. It is time this was recognised within our political structures, and within our Constitution. Labor is determined to give First Nations people a say in the matters that affect them

Today’s visit to the Alice by Prime Minister Turnbull was a poorly planned shameless political stunt. While it always good to have Prime Minister’s visit this wonderful place you reckon he would have come here with a clear purpose in mind, that is not what happened today.   In a stumbling bumbling interview on ABC

The Labor-initiated Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition has today released its interim report, putting calls for a Voice for First Nations people back on the national agenda. More than a year after the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Final Report of the Referendum Council, the overwhelming evidence to this Committee is that First