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| UpdatedCommunities along the eastern Northern Territory coast are readying for their second major storm event in just over a month, with Cyclone Nathan on course to make landfall early on Sunday.
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Born between two cyclones, three-week-old Jasmine is a picture of serenity amongst the preparations in Nhulunbuy for Tropical Cyclone Nathan, which is predicted to hit the small town on Sunday morning
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| UpdatedA ruling that an NT man dying from an asbestos-related disease contracted at an alumina refinery should be paid $425,000 in compensation is just the "tip of the iceberg", his lawyer says.
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| UpdatedEx-Tropical Cyclone Lam buffeted north Arnhem Land, leaving behind a trail of destruction. See how it unfolded in pictures.
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| UpdatedA premature baby and her mother are evacuated from the path of Cyclone Lam in a daring nine-hour rescue effort.
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Tropical Cyclone Lam has struck remote parts of the Northern Territory.
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| UpdatedEx-Tropical Cyclone Lam is downgraded to a tropical low and is tracking south-west through the Northern Territory, leaving behind a trail of destruction in remote communities in Arnhem Land. Look back on how it unfolded.
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| UpdatedHouses have been crushed by fallen trees in Arnhem Land's Milingimbi community, which remains without power, water and sewerage after bearing the brunt of ex-Tropical Cyclone Lam.
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Bruce Patterson says his banana plantation at Yirrkala, near Nhulunbuy, in north east Arnhem Land, has survived the threat of Cyclone Lam. Read more
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| UpdatedA Northern Territory banana plantation has escaped widespread damage from strong winds caused by the approaching Cyclone Lam.
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| UpdatedSchools and even a mechanical workshop become temporary cyclone shelters in remote Indigenous communities ahead of the arrival of the category three Cyclone Lam.
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| UpdatedNorthern Territory officials urge residents of Arnhem Land to be ready for an expected category four cyclone.
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| UpdatedTourists are deserting Australia's third largest island, Groote Eylandt, and cancelling travel plans as weather forecasters predict Tropical Cyclone Lam will pass close by as a category four storm later this week.
Topics: cyclone, cyclones, weather, nhulunbuy-0880, maningrida-0822, nt, weipa-4874, qld
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Senior Sergeant Brendan Muldoon is Nhulunbuy police station's former officer in charge.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, nhulunbuy-0880
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East Arnhem police who have been issuing tickets to children obeying traffic rules say the festive season policy is changing attitudes in the Gove region.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, crime, family-and-children, community-and-society, nhulunbuy-0880
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| UpdatedA vagrant bird that looks a lot like a common seagull sets Australia's bird-watching community aflutter after the ninth ever sighting on Australian shores.
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| UpdatedThe last of the former bauxite refinery workers on the Northern Territory's Gove Peninsula are leaving the remote town of Nhulunbuy this week, as a free-rent transition period comes to an end.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, unemployment, nhulunbuy-0880
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| UpdatedA federal court judge rules the Northern Land Council can determine what percentage of mining royalties it pays to Indigenous clans.
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| UpdatedEuthanasia used to be a rare mercy at the only veterinarian practice on the Gove Peninsula, but things changed after Rio Tinto announced the closure of the Gove alumina refinery in late 2013.
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, industry, mining-industry, mining-rural, veterinary-medicine, nhulunbuy-0880
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| UpdatedNhulunbuy's abandoned mining workers' houses will go toward funding a new economic initiative launched by the Northern Territory government and Rio Tinto today.
Topics: government-and-politics, small-business, business-economics-and-finance, mining-rural, mining-industry, nhulunbuy-0880