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ABC News Australia •
September 04, 2026 • 07:24 AM
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Chris is an award winning Indigenous Yanuwa/Garrwa filmmaker and video journalist from the remote Northern Territory community of Borroloola. He is based at ABC Alice Springs.

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Chris is an award winning Indigenous Yanuwa/Garrwa filmmaker and video journalist from the remote Northern Territory community of Borroloola. He is based at ABC Alice Springs.

Some desert frogs can spend years underground, emerging only after rain. Now scientists are asking Central Australians to help track them down.

The bass player in one of Central Australia's pioneering Aboriginal bands has been jailed for an aggravated assault on his partner.

The NT education minister has admitted Alice Springs's only public high school needs more work than the $500,000 upgrade budget allows, just months before a merger begins.

A Port Augusta man who allegedly bragged about having "killed someone" has faced court for the first time after returning to Alice Springs to "hand himself in".

The skies opened, trees fell and thousands were left without electricity. But as the Alice Springs Masters Games draw to a close, competitors say the spirit of the event has endured.

A 12-year-old Arrernte boxer from Alice Springs has no plans to hang up her gloves, after wrapping up a special training stint at the Australian Institute of Sport.

Twelve-year-old Leela Lord has returned from a national Indigenous boxing camp at the Australian Institute of Sport with bigger ambitions for her future in the ring.

Graham Abbott, 27, has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison after assaulting a woman and two security guards at an Alice Springs casino.

A camera streaming around the clock from a remote Central Australian waterhole is capturing dingoes, wallabies, birds and other wildlife while helping researchers understand how the changing climate is reshaping the desert.

More than 2,000 people packed into the Alice Springs Rodeo as the event returned after a year-long hiatus, with three competitors taken to hospital and Territory cowboy Sam Webb riding away with $3,000.

Topic: Community and Cultural Events

Indigenous fathers say damaging stereotypes continue to shape how they are seen as parents, as advocates call for their strengths and contributions to families to be celebrated this Father's Day.

A 49-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter over a fatal road incident in Darwin two years ago that allegedly involved two pedestrians and a vehicle.

Two men have been jailed for life after beating 19-year-old Yiel Deng Gatluak to death outside Alice Springs on New Year's Day in 2024 and filming his "brutal" murder.

Former residents say the heritage listing of the St Mary's Hostel site in Alice Springs is an important step towards healing, truth-telling and remembering the children taken there under assimilation-era policies.

Two men have been arrested and denied bail after a violent disturbance in Yuendumu, in which multiple vehicles were allegedly set alight by armed offenders.

After learning from Native American Yuchi families, Pertame elders and young mothers in Alice Springs are raising babies in a total immersion Language Nest and hope to extend the model into primary school.

Federal Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has visited Alice Springs, where he has met family of Kumanjayi Little Baby and renewed the Coalition's calls for deeper scrutiny of federal funding directed to the region.

Returning legends of the Finke Desert Race, David Walsh and Travis Robinson, have been crowned Kings of the Desert at the gruelling two-day off-road race, with Walsh winning on bikes for a record-equalling sixth time and Robinson claiming victory on cars.

A motorbike rider has died in the Central Australian outback after a Finke Desert Race crash, with the two-day event expected to continue as police investigate.

Topic: Accidents and Emergency Incidents

Over distances of up to 231km, 573 runners took to the Larapinta Trail outside Alice Springs at the weekend to compete in the 2026 West Macs Monster.

Two men have been found guilty of murder over the death of 19-year-old Yiel Deng Gatluak outside Alice Springs, while their teenage co-accused has been found guilty of the lesser offence of violent act causing death.

Jurors in a trial over the alleged murder of an Alice Springs teenager have heard competing arguments about how to interpret videos taken in the lead up to the young man's death.

An emergency has been declared as a tropical low brings heavy rain, rising river levels and flooding risks to Central Australia and the Barkly region.

An Alice Springs teenager who grew up with cycling program Bikes Mwerre is now sharing his knowledge with the next generation. It's a full-circle moment for the outback program built on pride, skills and belonging.

Gavin Morris, the former principal of Yipirinya School in Alice Springs, has received an 18-month suspended sentence for the aggravated assault of four students.

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