Joseph is a multi-platform journalist working in the ABC's Darwin newsroom. He has a particular interest in the justice system, politics and Indigenous affairs. Joseph has been named as a finalist at the Walkley Foundation's Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards and the NT Media Awards. He was previously an ABC News cadet in Sydney.
Some of the country's hottest musical exports say it's now cheaper to fly to London or the United States for gigs than to travel interstate to play for Australian audiences.
Defence Housing Australia has revised its plan to build an 800-house precinct in Lee Point in Darwin's northern suburbs, following ongoing pushback from the community over environmental and sacred sites concerns.
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
China Southern Airlines will suspend its direct flights between Darwin and Guangzhou, China after just one year operating in the NT. The airline's final scheduled flight to China will be on December 3.
Darwin City Council's rejection of Christian group March for Jesus from the city's Christmas pageant this year has prompted a heated dispute with the Northern Territory government.
Two years after the Country Liberal Party government came to power on a tough-on-crime platform, official crime data shows a mixed bag of results across the Northern Territory.
Residents at Darwin's biggest short-stay accommodation facility say they feel "like cattle being chased from a station" as the Northern Territory government prepares to bus them 100km to Batchelor.
It's a tough sport they say only the young can do, but the kid you are about to meet started when he was just four.
As data centres and fibre-optic cable networks proliferate, planning documents show two international subsea cables could soon dock in the Darwin suburb of Fannie Bay.
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
The City of Darwin could soon vote to permanently move its annual pre-cyclone clean-up to May after the 2026 clean-up was postponed until after the wet season.
Topic: Recycling and Waste Management
Months after record flooding, the remote Aboriginal community of Nauiyu / Daly River remains significantly damaged and without key services. Locals say some are still without power and little has been done to prepare for the next wet season.
Voluntary assisted dying laws have passed the Northern Territory Parliament tonight, in a move that will legalise the practice across Australia.
Topic: State and Territory Government
The NT government files two applications with the Fair Work Commission over a year-long bargaining dispute with the union representing firefighters and correctional officers, with experts calling it a "risky move".
Last month, the NT government all but guaranteed laws to introduce voluntary assisted dying would pass in parliament, but a week out from a conscience vote, several CLP backbenchers have proposed amendments to the bill.
The Northern Territory is one of the last places in Australia still free of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, but experts say it's only a matter of time before it arrives. Now they're enlisting the help of local birdwatchers and conservationists to help slow its spread.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions is set to take over the case against Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling, to avoid a perceived conflict of interest within the Northern Territory Director of Public Prosecutions.
Music lovers in Darwin are missing out on visits from interstate and overseas touring artists, while local bands and venue managers say more needs to be done to support the local scene.
Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has been banned from approaching Government House in Darwin after facing court for the first time since being charged with assaulting the Northern Territory administrator, the territory's equivalent of a state governor.
Labor's political opponents have lined up to call for the prime minister to force Solomon MP Luke Gosling to stand aside from his special envoy role after he was charged with assaulting the NT administrator, as the NT's deputy leader rejects claims of "politicisation" in his arrest.
The Northern Territory parliament is debating controversial child protection laws that have been criticised for their potential impact on the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle.
The Northern Territory government is planning to reduce the minimum block size in low-density suburbs from 800 to 450 square metres, sparking concern from some residents.
Topic: Housing Construction Industry
Just over half of all Aboriginal students in the NT are showing up for school, despite millions being spent on truancy policies.
Charles Darwin University (CDU) has been directed to back pay more than $4 million in wages after it was found to have underpaid more than 800 professional and academic staff members between 2016 and 2022.
Residents of the Northern Territory town of Nauiyu / Daly River have started returning home after spending three months in evacuation centres following extensive flooding.
Internal Northern Territory Health data leaked to the ABC reveals diphtheria case numbers surged in the NT a month before a public health alert was issued. The data also offers the first public insight into the regions hit hardest by the outbreak.
Residents in the regional NT town of Batchelor say they have been left in the dark about the future of a pop-up evacuation centre that was built earlier this year without their consultation for flood evacuees.
